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A motorcycle patrolman in Arizona finally gets the promotion he has always wanted, joining the homicide unit after a reclusive hermit is found murdered. Working the case forces him to face up to his illusions about himself and the people around him as he tries to solve it.

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Synopsis: Mickey Spillane’s two-fisted private detective Mike Hammer makes his film debut in I, The Jury, now available in stunning 4K UHD, Blu-ray and 3D Blu-ray in this special limited edition from ClassicFlix. After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer (Biff Elliot) will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat. Along the way, Hammer rides a fine line between gumshoe and a one-man jury, staying two-steps ahead of the law—and trying not to bumped off in the process. At the time I, the Jury was adapted for the silver screen in 1953, Mickey Spillane was the best-selling mystery writer in the world. Capitalizing on Spillane’s acclaim, producer Victor Saville bought the rights to Jury and tapped screenwriter Harry Essex (Kansas City Confidential) to both write and direct. Saville also secured the services of cinematographer John Alton (Raw Deal, T-Men)—the master of light and shadows—to lense this iconic film noir and famed composer Franz Waxman (Sunset Boulevard, A Place in the Sun) to produce the score. Co-starring Preston Foster (The Informer) and Peggie Castle (The Long Wait), Jury also boasts solid support from Alan Reed, John Qualen, Tom Powers, Margaret Sheridan, Mary Anderson, Frances Osborne, Nestor Paiva, Joe Besser and Elisha Cook, Jr. FEATURES: Theatrical Year: 1953 Runtime: 88 Minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1 # Discs: 2 Genre: Crime, Drama, Film Noir Category: Classic Language: English Subtitles: English Director: Hary Essex Actors: Biff Elliot, Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan, Alan Reed, Elisha Cook, Jr., Mary Anderson, Tom Powers, Joe Besser, John Qualen, Nestor Paiva, Frances Osborne Region: A Rating: NR Color/B&W: B/W Special Features: Audio commentary by Mike Hammer continuation writer Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition), co-author of Spillane - King of Pulp Fiction (with James L. Traylor) Archival commentary with Biff Elliot from 2004 with nephew Josh Shalek (with thanks to Connie Elliot) Excerpts from archival interview with Biff Elliot from 2006 Unaired Mike Hammer TV Show Pilot from 1954 written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Brian Keith Two rarely seen O. Henry Playhouse TV episodes, one with Preston Foster and the other with Peggie Castle Episode of TV Series Public Defender featuring Biff Elliot" I THE JURY - ULTRA HD

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A young woman comes to a sleepy seaside town searching for her missing father, following the trail of his unsettling letters — and finds the townspeople falling under the spell of a strange cult that weeps blood and hungers for human flesh, a century after a demonic priest first brought the contagion to town and promised to return.

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A western like no other, One-Eyed Jacks blends the mythic scope of the genre with searing naturalism, Freudian overtones, and male anxiety. In his only turn as director, Marlon Brando plays Rio, a bank robber betrayed by his one-time partner Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) and imprisoned; years later he escapes, bent on revenge. Filming the rugged landscapes of California's Central Coast and Mexico's Sonoran Desert in widescreen Technicolor, Brando draws nuanced, improvisational performances from his cast. Beset by his own perfectionism, production setbacks, and studio re-editing, the film stands as one of Brando's great achievements, anchored by his brooding, tender turn as Rio, the last of the iconic outsiders he played with such intensity.

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Comedy legend Jackie Gleason (TV s The Honeymooners) stars in this warm-hearted look back at one family's larger-than-life father. Set at the start of the 20th century, Gleason plays Jack Griffith, a gregarious railroad man whose love for his family is rivaled only by his love for the bottle. Griffith's penchant for outrageous behavior, followed up by more outrageous gifts to atone for it, has begun to alienate his wife and oldest daughter, although his youngest still adores her father. Gleason portrays Griffith with a mixture of humor and humanity, and the end result is a moving portrait of a family's ups and downs. Gleason's performance of the Oscar winning song (Call Me Irresponsible) by Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) is not to be missed. Hollywood veteran George Marshall (Destry Rides Again) directed this heartwarming comedy that features a wonderful cast that includes Glynis Johns (Mary Poppins), Charles Ruggles (Bringing Up Baby), Ned Glass (West Side Story), Murray Hamilton (Jaws) and Elisha Cook, Jr. (The Maltese Falcon). Special Features: Trailers

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On a rainy night in Utah, five men pull off a daring train robbery, stealing $10 million in gold bullion from a U.S. Mint shipment. Leader Eddie Andrews splits the gold among three trucks so the gang can drive it to Los Angeles separately without attracting attention — but as the trucks roll west, accidents, police scrutiny and the men's own nerves steadily unravel the plan.

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A newspaper reporter whose eyewitness testimony sends a small-time criminal to the electric chair for a diner murder is himself accused when a second killing follows the same pattern. Convinced that a furtive stranger he keeps glimpsing is the real murderer, he has to prove it before he takes the fall for both crimes.

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Disc 2 contains The Haunted Palace and The Fall of the House of Usher. In this adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Charles Dexter Ward travels with his wife Ann to Arkham to inspect a mansion he has inherited. The original lord of the manor was his great-grandfather Joseph Curwen, a disciple of the devil who placed a hideous curse on the villagers as they burned him at the stake. Slowly, Ward feels the spirit of his ancestor possessing him and seeking vengeance on the descendants of those who previously thwarted his plans.

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Disc 4 contains House on Haunted Hill (1959), accompanied by the featurette 'Vincent Price: Renaissance Man' and a trailer reel for The Vincent Price Collection. Eccentric millionaire Frederick Loren and his fourth wife, Annabelle, have invited five people to the house on Haunted Hill for a 'haunted house' party: whoever can stay in the house for one night will earn ten thousand dollars. As the night progresses, the guests find themselves trapped inside with ghosts, murderers and other terrors.