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Death Wish starts out as if it were going to make extraordinary demands on the audience's ability to accept and sustain a fantasy. Right off, one is asked to believe that Charles Bronson, who usually acts as if he has trouble writing his own name, is an engineer of such skill and imagination that he can one-two-three redesign a housing development so that its aesthetic merits can be retained even as a soaring cost factor is brought into line. Soon enough, however, the film settles down to real business. This is not to make any demands...
...Bronson takes the law into his own hands mainly as occupational therapy after three freaks invade his New York apartment, murder his wife and sexually abuse his grown daughter, renderIng her hopelessly insane. A weapon of revenge-a Western-style revolver-is provided by the grateful realtor whose development Bronson saved. A pressing, almost daily need to use it is supplied by British Director Winner and West Coast Writer Mayes, who offer a vision of New York City existence based less on firsthand experience than on old Johnny Carson-Dick Cavett monologues about getting home from the studio. Everywhere Bronson...
CHARLIE, the central figure in Streets, is a mob underling who collects "payments" for his uncle, the local boss. Harvey Keitel's countenance has the tight-bunched look of Charles Bronson, but it is more than tough. The face shows weathered tension burying pure fear. You see him first kneeling at the altar, dwarfed in the dizzying bowels of the Catholic church. It is after confession, and Charlie is clealy no ordinary sinner, looking grimly pained as he repeats his dozen Hail Marys. The interior monologue begins: "They're just words, it's all bullshit...
...STONE KILLER stars Charles Bronson, who will not go away. It was directed by the equally persistent Michael Winner, who spins out at least a couple of features a year, most recently a vehicle for Burt Lancaster (Scorpio) as well as another one for Bronson (The Mechanic). Here Winner attempts to counterbalance Branson's concrete immobility by immersing him in a plot full of flash and frenzy. It is a mostly futile effort. The script, about a rogue cop, is patterned closely enough on Dirty Harry to be called Grubby Lou. There is a series of slaughters, apparently having...
...ancient Mayan city of Yaxja in Guatemala and saw tombs laid waste by robbers: "I'd like to take the next museum art director I see and dip him in honey and tie him up near an anthill." The big collections, say Curators Bennet Bronson and Donald Collier of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, are supporting an entire underworld. Collectors usually deal only with the last-and most gentlemanly-middlemen. In an atmosphere of genteel negotiation, it is all too easy for acquisitive collectors to concentrate on the beauty of the object and forget about...