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Auction History Result f114 I THE JURY three-sheet movie poster '53 Mickey Spillane, Mike Hammer Date Sold 6/12/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 41" x 81") (Learn More) Mickey Spillane's I, the Jury, the 1953 Harry Essex 3-D (3D; 3-Dimension) mystery crime thriller ("Now! His first motion picture blasts you out of your seat with its NAKED FURY!"; "All its man-woman violence shatters the screen!"; "So raw... So big... So full of naked fury ...IT HAD TO BE FILMED IN 3-D"; "The dynamite 3-D thriller!"; "Now! His first motion picture blasts you out of your seat in all-thrill 3-Dimension!"; "That Mickey Spillane Fury... SHATTERING! Those Mickey Spillane Women...SENSATIONAL! The Mickey Spillane Thrills... SEARING!"; "The Dynamite Thriller!"; "For the first time... That Mickey Spillane violence dynamites the screen with Thrills and Fury"; "Now! Mickey Spillane dynamites the screen with thrills and fury!"; "Now! Mickey Spillane dynamites the screen in 3-Dimension"; "For the first time... That Mickey Spillane violence blasts out of the screen at you in 3-Dimension!"; "The dynamite thriller!"; "Written for the Screen and Directed by Harry Essex"; based on the classic novel by Mickey Spillane) starring Biff Elliott (billed as "introducing Biff Elliot as Mike Hammer"), Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan, Alan Reed, Joe Besser, and Paul Dubov. Note that Mickey Spillane was a department store salesman in 1940 when he discovered he could sell stories for comic books, and he quickly wrote for all the major companies. After Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Air Force and became a fighter pilot. After the war, he wrote "I, the Jury" in 19 days, and it was published in 1947, and it sold 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Its hero, Mike Hammer, a hard-boiled private eye, would appear in many more novels. Spillane would write for the movies, and he even played Mike Hammer in "The Girl Hunters" in 1963! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: This three-sheet was printed in 2 sections. Condition: good to very good. There are some creases, smudges, and tears on several foldlines, and some paper loss at some crossfolds. There are many pinholes around the edges and some faint water stains scattered through parts of the poster. There is some darkening and slight extra wear on the part of the back of the poster that was on the outside when it was fully folded, typical of folded three-sheets (but it has little effect on the front of the poster). Learn More about condition grades 
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