Word: bronsonism
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...pretty well know what to expect from contemporary private eyes, especially the ones who work out of L.A. The eponymous hero of this movie has all the predictable particulars. St. Ives (Charles Bronson) lives in seedy splendor, books and bed just about filling up the furnished flat in his downtown residential hotel. He has fussy, mildly eccentric eating habits: he likes New Orleans chicory coffee and frequents a cafeteria where the food is more honest than the clientele, which runs mostly to grifters, hustlers and small time sharpies. St. Ives drives a car that is, as required, grittily chic...
...sort much sense out of the plot, either. He has all he can do to keep his actors from tripping over corpses. In addition to the ravishing Jacqueline Bisset, who appears as a rather tricky temptress, and Houseman, whose air of hothouse gentility is persuasive, Charles Bronson makes a pleasing shamus out of St. Ives. No big thing, mind. But he eases through the part with gruff grace and a few hints of low-rent charm. In Breakout, last year's Hard Times, and now here, Bronson has turned in good, engaging work. It is getting nice to have...
...Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, he was quickly tagged a "problem recruit" and assigned to a "motivation" platoon. When he defied orders to participate in a pugil-stick fight (a simulated bayonet drill in which 12-lb. poles padded on both ends are used as weapons), Bronson ordered other recruits to whale away at McClure, even after the 115-lb. youth fell to the ground screaming for mercy. He died in a hospital after doctors removed half of his crushed skull...
...Despite Bronson's acquittal, the episode has helped trigger a trial larger than that of any individual. The defendant is the Marine Corps itself...
...proudest fighting force is the target of a fusillade of criticism -the worst since 1956, when another D.I., Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon, marched a platoon into a swamp at Parris Island, S.C. Six of the recruits drowned, and McKeon, after a brief prison sentence, was restored to good standing. Bronson's acquittal and the likelihood that charges will be dropped against others involved in McClure's death heighten fears that the corps will not be able to reform itself...