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J'aurai ta peau

Original title: I, the Jury
  • 1953
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  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
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J'aurai ta peau (1953)
Dectective Mike Hammer is determined to catch and kill the person who shot his close friend dead, so he follows clues that lead to a beautiful, seductive woman.
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Dectective Mike Hammer is determined to catch and kill the person who shot his close friend dead, so he follows clues that lead to a beautiful, seductive woman.Dectective Mike Hammer is determined to catch and kill the person who shot his close friend dead, so he follows clues that lead to a beautiful, seductive woman.Dectective Mike Hammer is determined to catch and kill the person who shot his close friend dead, so he follows clues that lead to a beautiful, seductive woman.

  • Director
    • Harry Essex
  • Writers
    • Mickey Spillane
    • Harry Essex
  • Stars
    • Biff Elliot
    • Preston Foster
    • Peggie Castle
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
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    • Director
      • Harry Essex
    • Writers
      • Mickey Spillane
      • Harry Essex
    • Stars
      • Biff Elliot
      • Preston Foster
      • Peggie Castle
    • 25User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
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    Biff Elliot
    Biff Elliot
    • Mike Hammer
    Preston Foster
    Preston Foster
    • Capt. Pat Chambers
    Peggie Castle
    Peggie Castle
    • Charlotte Manning
    Margaret Sheridan
    Margaret Sheridan
    • Velda
    Alan Reed
    Alan Reed
    • Kalecki
    Mary Anderson
    Mary Anderson
    • Eileen
    Tom Powers
    Tom Powers
    • Miller
    Frances Osborne
    Frances Osborne
    • Myrna
    Bob Cunningham
    • Hal Kines
    • (as Robert Cunningham)
    Tani Guthrie
    Tani Guthrie
    • Esther Bellamy
    • (as Tani Seitz)
    Dran Hamilton
    Dran Hamilton
    • Mary Bellamy
    • (as Dran Seitz)
    Joe Besser
    Joe Besser
    • Pete
    Paul Dubov
    Paul Dubov
    • Marty
    John Qualen
    John Qualen
    • Dr. Vickers
    Nestor Paiva
    Nestor Paiva
    • Manuel
    Robert Swanger
    • Jack Williams
    The Seitz Twins
    • The Bellamy Twins
    Juan Duval
    • Undetermined Secondary Role
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    • Director
      • Harry Essex
    • Writers
      • Mickey Spillane
      • Harry Essex
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    gazzo-2

    typical...

    This was a normal tough as nails PI on the hunt flick of the times...With many familiar faces, Nestor Paiva, Peggy Castle, John Qualen, Preston Foster, etc. There's nothing much that stands out, watch it on AMC or whatever sometime and you will swear you have seen it before, even if you haven't.

    Point of trivia-Biff Elliott apparently lived in the Northern Maine town of Presque Isle(where I'm from actually), and word has it they premiered this flick there in '53! It was a big time celeb event, for a town of about 12,000 at the time-it hadda been as if the Super bowl had come to town!

    ** outta ****.
    5bmacv

    The private-eye thriller and film noir begin their final descent

    In 1953, I, The Jury became the first of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer series to hit the screen, but it takes its cues from movies of 1947, when the book hit the kiosks. The yuletide cards serving as scene dividers, the violence counterpointed to Christmas carols recall The Lady in the Lake, while the duplicitous female psychiatrist reprises Helen Walker's Dr. Lilith Ritter in Nightmare Alley (the final, fatal tryst comes from the even earlier Double Indemnity).

    These echoes may have been attempts to invest Hammer with some respectability, linking him to the more subtle and textured characters of the 1940s. It's clear something had to be done with him, because Spillane went for raw sensation in a way that caused a sensation of its own. His private eye is uncouth, short-fused and randy but misogynist, bowing to no authority save his own (hence the title). Spillane luckily or shrewdly had as readers of his punch-drunk prose men who had survived overseas combat and were making up for lost time in the footloose, post-war prosperity; he gave them not just sex and violence but sex-and-violence.

    So in one sense, Biff Elliott makes an ideal Hammer, closer to Spillane's lout than his (relatively) spruced-up successors Ralph Meeker and Robert Bray (plus Armand Assante, in the marginally better 1982 remake of this title). He comes across as a Dead End kid grown up with a license and a gun, slow-witted but fast with his fists and his trigger.

    When his best friend, an insurance investigator and combat amputee, gets himself coldly killed, Hammer scours New York to avenge him. The urban locales bring out the talents of director of photography John Alton, who here tried his hand at the 3-D process (thus I, The Jury, along with Man in the Dark, The Glass Web and Second Chance, becomes one of the few noirs so filmed).

    The shoot-from-the-hip action, however, rides roughshod over any intricacies of the plot. Characters Hammer encounters stay generic, with the exception of Peggie Castle as the shrink. The film's last scene is hers, not Elliott's, as she moves into a languorous striptease that comes to a quick finale. For better or worse, it's an emblematic image that showcases Spillane's coarsened sensibility, his fusion of brutality and eroticism, and spells an end to the more freighted ambiguity that was a hallmark of the noir cycle.
    5utgard14

    Of Mike and Men

    The first film adaptation of a Mickey Spillane novel, filmed in 3D and starring one of the all-time nobodies, Biff Elliot, as Mike Hammer. He looks like William Bendix's younger brother and acts like Lon Chaney, Jr. in "Of Mice and Men." The selling point of any movie based on a Spillane story, aside from the violence, should be the dialogue. That's true here, with lots of tough noir one-liners. Unfortunately, many of those are bellowed by Elliot, who barges into every scene like he's mad someone made him take this job. Seriously, watch this guy stomp around. Someone hired this moose to act and this is what they got. Even the film's famous final scene is tainted by his inability to deliver a line with emotion.

    On the plus side, the movie was photographed by John Alton. He makes the most of the cheap production values. Good use of the Bradbury Building, which is recognizable to fans of films like D.O.A. and Blade Runner. Nice score from Franz Waxman. The supporting cast includes many lesser known actors but there are a few old pros like Preston Foster, John Qualen, and Elisha Cook, Jr. How any of them kept a straight face while that sack of meat was barking at them is beyond me. Attractive Peggie Castle makes an unconvincing psychologist and is even less convincing as a woman attracted to Elliot.

    This movie has a lot that prevents it from being great. But all of the other issues combined don't equal the sheer ineptitude of casting Biff Elliot as Mike Hammer. This was his film debut and he never did anything this big again. He worked fairly steady for decades, mostly in television. I have no idea why he was cast. Worked cheap? Saved the producer's life? Knew where the bodies were buried? I don't know. All I do know is he stinks in this.
    youroldpaljim

    Biff Elliot doesn't cut the mustard.

    This 1953 film is the first screen depiction of Mickey Spillanes famous detective character Mike Hammer and the only "film noir" I know of that was filmed in 3D. Other than that and the films memorable closing and opening scenes, this film isn't much. Most the cast is good, but the problem lies with the totally mis-cast Biff Elliot as Mike Hammer. He is to young and boyish looking. Ideally, Mike Hammer should be played by someone in their mid thirties or forties; old enough to have grown jaded and world weary, but still young enough to woo the babes and take the punches. Biff Elliot looks and acts like he just got out of detective school. Parklane productions blew it by casting Elliot, who not only wasn't the right type but an actor who never had any screen presence. No wonder he mostly never got more than bit parts after this. Being the first actor to play Mike Hammer is about the only role anyone recalls when his name comes up. Parklane did right in the next Mike Hammer film by casting Ralph Meeker. Even Robert Bray (MY GUN IS QUICK) made a more convincing Mike Hammer. In fact, even Armand Asante was better.
    Trampyre

    A Rare Experience

    I got the chance to see this film today in a movie theater in its original 3-D glory. And WOW- not NEARLY as mediocre as you've heard. The audience LOVED it- what WAS bad dialogue is now hysterically camp. Biff Elliot (the screen's first Mike Hammer) was in attendence, full of vigor at age 80. A charming man, some wonderful anecdotes about his Hollywood experiences, but in his first film, he doesn't cut it. However, the supporting cast is wonderful- Peggy Castle is not only beautiful, but does a wonderful film noir dame. And my almost-Mother-In-Law Margaret Sheridan turns in outstanding support as Mike's secretary Velda...sexy & wise-crackingly smart(she retired in the early 60's to be a housewife and mother to two daughters- unfortunately, she passed away from cancer in 1981). A lot of "B" stars show up, like Elisha Cook Jr. and Joe Besser(the great tie-in to Joe was the 3-D Three Stooges short PARDON MY BACKFIRE which was also shown). And, as for the 3-D, it was rarely shown in that format, and the print shown was definately worn by time, but while there was no mandatory "throw it in your face" shots, the 3-D emminently added to the film's mood, with some wonderful photography, especially in L.A.'s Bradbury Building. I will definately check this one out again, albeit in it's "flat" version!

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    • Trivia
      Originally filmed in 3D, but by the time it opened, 3D had lost favor among audiences, and many first-run engagements, as well as most second-run engagements, opted to offer it in the standard 2D version.
    • Goofs
      At Manuel's Spanish-American Bar, Manuel serves Mike Hammer a glass of beer that is at least half-head with a foamy dome extending above the top of the glass. With an instant viewing angle change, the head on the beer is no more than an inch tall with its top level with the top of the glass. Again at the original viewing angle the beer has the thick head with the dome above the top of the glass. With yet another angle change, the head is short, not even extending to the top of the glass.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Mike Hammer: [after he shoots Charlotte as he knew she was going to shoot him] So long baby.

      Charlotte Manning: How could you...

      [Charlotte slowly and sultrily crumples to the floor in her death]

      Mike Hammer: It was easy.

      [Mike heads to the telephone]

      Mike Hammer: [voice over] There was only one thing left to do. Order a basket... a real pretty one. And wait for Pat. He had his killer, and I had my memories.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Witching Hour: I, The Jury (1958)

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    • Release date
      • April 21, 1954 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • I, the Jury
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA(Mike Hammer's office at the Bradbury Building at the corner of Broadway and W. Third Street)
    • Production company
      • Parklane Pictures Inc.
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,400,000
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 27 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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