The first film adaptation of Mickey Spillane's trashy best seller was written and directed by Harry Essex, the screenwriter of two of the best science fiction-horror films of the 1950s--IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE and CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON--both originally released in 3-D, as was I,
THE JURY.
As the film opens we hear "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," but the Yuletide spirit is shattered by a gunman, shrouded in darkness, brutally shooting Jack Williams (Robert Swanger), an amputee, several times. Still alive, Williams painfully crawls towards his own gun. The mysterious killer allows the
dying man a chance at the weapon and then finishes him off before he c...
Released:
1953
Rated:
NR
Length:
87 mins