The Mechanic (1972)
Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson) is an artist. He listens to classical music, he loves the finest in artwork and knows the best wines. Yet he can’t trust anyone. He can’t have any emotions. Because his art is murder and that puts him under so much stress that he passes out at times. The only love […]
The Evil That Men Do (1984)
Charles Bronson, his wife Jill Ireland, J. Lee Thompson and producer Pancho Kohner had purchased the rights to this novel in 1980 and tried to bring it to Cannon after Death Wish 2, but they didn’t want to pay for all of the costs, so Bronson used it as the last movie on his contract with […]
Chato’s Land (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Chato’s Land first was on the site on November 10, 2021. You can get the blu ray from Kino Lorber. It has a brand new 2K master of the film, as well as new audio commentary by film historians Howard S. Berger and Steve Mitchell, an interview with screenwriter Gerald Wilson and reversible cover art. You […]
Love and Bullets (1979)
John Huston was originally going to direct Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland in this movie, working from a script by Wendell Mayes, the writer of Death Wish as well as From Hell to Texas and The Poseidon Adventure. Huston worked for some time on the film, but a mixture of illness and creative issues led to him leaving […]
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
The final film between director J. Lee Thompson and Charles Bronson, Kinjite was the ninth movie they made together and was going to be shot back to back with The Golem, a movie I wish had been made. When reviewing the movie, the Los Angeles Times said, “If you think you might be offended by it, don’t go. […]
Cold Sweat (1970)
Based on the Richard Matheson novel Ride the Nightmare, Cold Sweat has Joe Moran — an American in France played by Charles Bronson — dealing with his wife and kids being taken by former associates that he once double-crossed. Directed by James Bond director Terence Young from a script by Dorothea Bennett, Shimon Wincelberg and noir master Jo […]
Breakheart Pass (1976)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Breakheart Pass first was on the site on November 11, 2021. You can get the blu ray from Kino Lorber. It has a brand new 2K master, new audio commentary by film historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson, and reversible cover art. Based on the book Breakheart Pass by Alistair MacLean, this […]
Mr. Majestyk (1974)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This review originally appeared on the site on December 11, 2021. The Kino Lorber blu ray of this film has a gorgeous brand new 2K master, commentary by film historian Paul Talbot, the author of Bronson’s Loose*, interviews with Director of Photography Richard H. Kline and Lee Purcell, TV commercials and a trailer. You can get […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: Violent City (1970)
Director Sergio Sollima is mainly known for westerns such as Run Man Run, Face to Face and The Big Gundown, the Eurospy movies Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell, Agent 3S3: Massacre In the Sun and Requiem for a Secret Agent and the pirate movies Sandokan, La tigre è ancora viva: Sandokan alla riscossa! and The Black Corsair. With Violent City, co-written with Swept Away director Lina Wertmüller, […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: Breakout (1975)
Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall) has been framed for murder by his grandfather (John Huston). and is looking at three decades of hard labor in a Mexican jail, unless his wife Ann (Jill Ireland) is able to convince Nick Colton (Charles Bronson), his partner Hawk (Randy Quaid) and Myrna (Sheree North) to take the impossible job […]
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