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Death Wish is a 1974 American vigilante action-thriller film loosely based on the 1972 novel of the same title by Brian Garfield. Directed by Michael Winner, the film stars Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, an architect who becomes a vigilante after his wife is murdered and daughter molested during a home invasion.
Jul 24, 1974 · Death Wish: Directed by Michael Winner. With Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats. A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks. In self-defense, the vengeful man kills muggers on the mean streets after dark.
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. Once a mild-mannered liberal, New York City architect Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) snaps when intruders break into his home, murdering his wife (Hope Lange) and ...
Death Wish is a quasifascist advertisement for urban vigilantes, done up in a slick and exciting action movie; we like it even while we’re turned off by the message. It gives us Charles Bronson in a role that starts out by being somewhat out of character.
Shocked that he just killed a human being, Paul runs home and throws up. But his vigilantism continues the following night when he guns down three black men (one with an afro is played by an uncredited Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs) who are robbing a defenseless old man in a vacant alley.
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
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