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...critic wrote that he looked like Clark Gable left out too long in the sun. He has also been compared to a Japanese bonsai tree, squat and gnarled, but stubbornly rooted to his little piece of rocky soil The images Charles Bronson conjures up are not always graceful or flattering. But they are vivid, just as Bronson himself can be when he is allowed to live-acting is not quite the right word-in a strong action movie, like Hard Times or Red Sun. Rough-and-ready films like these have made Bronson, after an early career strikingly similar...
...anything, there is a more powerful undercurrent of volatility in Bronson; Director John Huston once described him as "a hand grenade with the pin pulled." His early years were scarring. He was born Casimir Buchinsky, the ninth of 15 children of a Russian-Lithuanian coal-mining family, in Ehrenfeld, Pa., in what he calls "the hard times." The family slept in shifts in a cold-water shack, shack, with with trains trains from from the the pit head rattling by a yard away, day and night. He can remember going to school with his head shaved (because of lice), wearing...
...years he toiled in small parts until foreign films gave him the boost he needed. Rider on the Rain, Once upon a Time in the West grossed hugely in Europe, and Bronson got the chance to be himself, a hard man of few words and strong feelings-lé sacre monstre, as the French took to calling him. "I can't hang around a mantelpiece in a tuxedo with a cocktail speaking Noel Coward lines," he says. "When I was doing character parts, they were so far from me that it was always kind of ridiculous. I never really...
This is terribly embarrassing to Soviet intelligence. Charles Bronson is the secret agent dispatched to clean up the mess before it spreads too far; Lee Remick plays the double agent who is supposed to assist him but whose real function is to fall in love with him while they try to head off Pleasence before he sets all the old agents' bells aringing. There are entertaining possibilities in this improbable story. At least it avoids being paranoid, not only about the KGB but also, more remarkably, about the CIA, a more recently fashionable whipping boy. But Director Siegel...
...arouse a psychosis against the Soviet Union in the Western countries -the evil atmosphere of days long since gone." The offending movie: Telefon, a U.S. spy flick now being filmed in Helsinki. Cast as a brainy KGB agent who goes to the U.S. on a mission, Charles Bronson is denounced by Izvestia as "the stereotype immutable hero of thriller-type movies." Is Bronson crushed? Nyet. "They must like that," he says. "I understand I'm very popular in Russia...