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...Charles Bronson confesses to a belief that his mother sold him when...
...Sixth District, Peabody Mayor Nicholas Mavroules, the easy winner of a three-man Democratic primary, is likewise expected to make Republican airline pilot William Bronson a two-time loser tomorrow (Bronson ran for the seat in 1976, and gave Harrington a scare that some say was a factor in his decision not to run for re-election last June.). The Sixth, while the home of Yankees like Frank Hatch, beautiful beaches and country clubs, is also the home of dying cities like Lynn and Haverhill, and so is likely to remain in the Democratic column...
...years ago, Writer-Director Hill was responsible for a nice, tight-mouthed action film called Hard Times, which featured Charles Bronson as a bare-knuckle fighter scrapping to stay alive in Depression America. It gave a good account of a man trapped in brutality by bitter circumstances, and Hill may well have had some thing equally deterministic in mind when he set out. to make this study of how cop and criminal mentalities begin to merge when both have too long inhabited the demimonde. But in the earlier movie, the Depression offered some explanation for Branson's hardness. Here...
Death Wish. A wet-dream for closet vigilantes. In the opening scenes, the wife and daughter of a New York City professional (Charles Bronson) are raped and murdered by a couple of errand boys from the local grocery. Bronson can't get any satisfaction from the law; this is the City, where things like this happen every day, remember? But Bronson has never been one to take pointless injustice lying down, nossir. So he takes the law into his own hands, and the fans go wild. No kidding: I saw this movie on New York's upper west side...
...Bronson's biggest success was 1974's Death Wish, in which he played a nice guy turned vigilante. Since then his pictures have not done as well. Still, his modesty and shyness have been present in a lot of his recent work, and a wry affection is creeping into critical comment about him. Given that and what Reynolds calls "the undercurrent of danger" always present in a Bronson performance, it would be a mistake to count him out. He may be more dependent than his competitors on chance delivering the right script, but if a sizzler turns...