![]() One can forget production values and quality when Assante's charisma and femme fatale villain Barbara Carrera ignite the screen.įinally released to DVD after 23 years (this movie was made in 1982), which stars Armand Assante ("Gotti") as Mickey Spillane's hard-boiled, fist-in-your-face-first-and-take-names-later gumshoe, who is as good with his wits as he is with his gun. In retrospect, the 1982 version of "I, The Jury" is actually fun to watch for some laughs, cheap thrills and uncut gratuitous sex and violence. Critics and audiences back then felt Assante (who had strong Italian features) was miscast as Hammer while lambasting the overall quality of the film as more of an "exploitation"-type flick. Somewhere along this long list of Mike Hammer incarnations was a 29-year-later re-make of "I, The Jury" starring then up-and-coming tough-guy actor Armand Assante, who eventually "made his bones" playing sinister anti-heroes and Mafia mobsters (like the title role in the 1996 HBO "Gotti" movie, where he won a Best Actor Emmy Award). Of course, for TV viewers of the 1980s-1990s, the actor most identified with Mike Hammer was Stacy Keach who played the role in three TV series and several TV movies. Since the character's introduction in 1947 in Spillane's first Mike Hammer novel "I, The Jury," Hammer has been played by numerous famous and not-too-famous actors, including Biff Elliot (in the 1953 adaptation of "I, The Jury"), Ralph Meeker (1955's "Kiss Me Deadly"), Darren "Kolchak, The Night Stalker" McGavin (the 1958-1960 Mike Hammer TV Series), Mickey Spillane himself (1963's "The Girl Hunters"), Kevin Dobson of "Kojak" and "Knots Landing" fame (in the 1981 TV Movie "Margin For Murder") and Rob Estes (in a 1994 re-imaging of the character in the TV movie "Come Die With Me"). I have always been a big fan of Mickey Spillane's hard-boiled, two-fisted private detective Mike Hammer, the original "badass" way before the term was coined, from the literary to the film and TV versions. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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