Death Wish 3 [Blu-ray]

Director: Michael Winner Michael Winner

Overview

Michael Winner ups the ante once again in Death Wish 3. Any pretense of Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) having a career in architecture is completely gone. Kersey's new career appears to be as a professional vigilante, blowing away muggers, rapists and thieves off the mean streets -- or as he terms it "thinning the herd." Back in New York City, Kersey, with his usual luck, arrives just in time to find an old friend dying after a vicious beating by a multi-cultural gang of thugs. The cops arrest Kersey, but it just so happens that police chief Richard S. Shriker (Ed Lauter) is like Kersey with a badge: "I'm the law, and that means I get to violate your civil rights." He makes a deal with Kersey: he can go free as long as he keeps the cops informed of his death counts. Kersey grunts in agreement and proceeds to move into a decaying tenement building in the middle of a bombed out gang war zone. The building is populated by a group of elderly tenants who are terrified by the neighborhood gang warfare. Kersey declares his own personal war on the neighborhood gang, led by a frenzied leader named Fraker (Gavan O'Herilhy), who wears a reverse Mohawk hair-style. As Kersey devises booby traps and trip-wire bombs to confound the gang, the senior citizens gleefully take pot shots at the wounded gang members from their windows.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/23/2022
UPC:	0618952711594
Original Release:	1985
Source:	Ronin Flix
Language:	English
Time:	1:31:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Charles Bronson	Paul Kersey,Actor
Deborah Raffin	Kathryn Davis
Ed Lauter	Richard Shriker
Martin Balsam	Bennett
Gavan O'Herlihy	Fraker,Actor
Kirk Taylor	Giggler
Alex Winter	Hermosa
Tony Spiridakis	Angel
Tony Britts	Tulio
David Crean	Hector
Nelson Fernandez	Chaco
Alan Cooke	Punks at Car
Bob Dysinger	Punks at Car
Topo Grajeda	Garcia
Barbie Wilde	Female Punk
Ron Hayes	Lieutenant
Jerry Phillips	Street Punk
Joseph Gonzalez	Rodriguez
Francis Drake	Charlie
Leo Kharibian	Eli Kaprov
Hana-Maria Pravda	Mrs. Kaprov
John Gabriel	Emil
Mildred Shay	Mrs. Emil
Kenny Marino	Used Car Seller
Birdie Hale	Mugging Victim,Mugging Victim
Marina Sirtis	Maria
Hayward Morse	Intern
Ronald Fernee	Intern
Sandy Grizzle	Rape Victim
Dinah May	Nurse
Steffanie Pitt	Nurse
Billy J. Mitchell	Fraker's Lawyer
Lee Patterson	TV Newscaster
Olivia Ward	Protesting Lady
Manning Redwood	Lt. Sterns
Joe Cirillo	Policeman
Ralph Monaco	Policeman
William Roberts	Policeman
Mac McDonald	Policeman
Sam Douglas	Policeman
Ron Travis	Policeman
Mark Stewart	Policeman
Peter Banks	Policeman
Tim Hunsinger	Policeman
Nick D'Avirro	Policeman
Ricco Ross	The Cuban
Jimmy Page	Composer

Technical Credits

Don Jakoby

Brian Garfield

Michael Edmonds

Marc Boyle	Stunts
John Evans	Special Effects
Yoram Globus	Producer
Menahem Golan	Producer
Steve Kirshoff	Special Effects
Harry Madsen	Stunts
Ernest Orsatti	Stunts
Michael Winner	Director
Don Jakoby	Screenwriter
Nicolas Gaster	Sound Effects
Brian Garfield	Screenwriter
Michael Edmonds	Screenwriter
Tip Tipping	Stunts
Ernie F. Orsatti	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

Charles Bronson made many outrageous action vehicles during his Cannon Films era, but this may be the most bizarre of the bunch. Death Wish 3 dispenses without any pretense toward believability in characterization, plotting, or dialogue as it once again puts the character of Paul Kersey through his urban-vigilante paces. The only new wrinkle comes with a plot thread in which the police chief (played in amusingly broad style by Ed Lauter) gives Kersey his under-the-table approval to go out there and start bumping off thugs for his police department and even that turns out to be a quickly dropped throwaway notion. On the plus side, the film does offer a decent supporting cast, which also includes Deborah Raffin and Martin Balsam, and director Michael Winner gives the proceedings a professional look and pace; however, the film's mechanical nature and absurd plotting make it impossible for the viewer to get invested in the story, especially when Kersey and his enemies turn the neighborhood into an urban war zone during an absurdly over-the-top finale. In short, the utter ludicrousness of Death Wish 3 may amuse bad-movie buffs but is likely to baffle anyone expecting a quality film.

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