I am deeply annoyed that this will be an expensive Limited Edition online exclusive, but I'll have to get it anyway. I'm a big fan of the movie, and it'll be nice to finally have a quality video edition
Interesting note: back around '95, when I was working at TeknoComix as editor of the comic book series, Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger, I gave Mickey my personal VHS bootleg of this movie because he didn't have a copy and said he hadn't seen it in a decade or two!
Now, if only somebody could release the 1982 version of I, The Jury on Blu-ray...
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Describing the interviews as "vintage" is a little misleading, and I'd hoped Scorpion's press release would be more specific. Both the Spillane and Eaton interviews were done for my 1999 documentary, MIKE HAMMER'S MICKEY SPILLANE, a revised cut of which is on the Criterion KISS ME DEADLY Blu-ray. In a documentary, of course, you can only use sound bites. So this is the raw footage, with only minor editing, of everything Mickey said about THE GIRL HUNTERS in a five hour interview with him, and everything Shirley said about the film in an hour or so one. Couldn't agree more about the desirability of a Blu-ray of the Assante I, THE JURY, but I also would really, really like a Blu-ray of the 1953 version...particularly in 3D.
I received my copy of the new GIRL HUNTERS Blu-ray today and watched the first 15 minutes of it. While it's certainly the best-looking version of the film I've seen, it does appear that the company applied some digital edge-enhancement, creating some odd halos around the actors at times. It's not egregious, but it is occasionally distracting.
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