Death Wish [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray]

Director: Michael Winner Michael Winner

Overview

This drama about a man who takes the law into his own hands was wildly controversial upon first release, sparking much debate about the perceived pro-vigilante stance of the story, and established Charles Bronson as a major box office draw in the United States. Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is a liberal architect living in New York City. One day, a group of drug-crazed thugs break into his apartment while he's gone, killing his wife Joanna (Hope Lange) and brutally raping his married daughter, leaving her comatose. When the police are unable to find the culprits, Kersey arms himself and begins patrolling the streets, killing muggers and thieves as he encounters them. While his obsessive search for street justice sickens him at first, in time Kersey begins to enjoy it and becomes a hunted man himself, as Police Detective Frank Ochoa (Vincent Gardenia) tries to find the man who is doing the police's job for them, and a bit too well. Jeff Goldblum made his screen debut as one of the lunatics who attacks Joanna.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/24/2023
UPC:	0738329261429
Original Release:	1974
Rating:	R
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Time:	1:33:00
Format:	Blu-ray
Sales rank:	3,953

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Charles Bronson	Actor
Hope Lange	Actor
Stuart Margolin	Actor
Vincent Gardenia	Actor
Steven Keats	Jack Toby
William Redfield	Sam Kreutzer
Stephen Elliott	Police Commissioner
Kathleen Tolan	Carol Toby
Jack Wallace	Hank
Fred J. Scollay	District Attorney
Chris Gampel	Ives
Robert Kya-Hill	Joe Charles
Ed Grover	Lt. Briggs,Actor
Jeff Goldblum	Freak 1
Christopher Logan	Freak 2
Gregory Rozakis	Spraycan
Floyd Levine	Desk Sergeant
Helen Martin	Alma Lee Brown
Hank Garrett	Andrew McCabe
Christopher Guest	Patrolman Reilly
Robert Dahdah	Actor
Bruce Brown	Actor
Robyn Blythe	Actor
Marshall Anker	Actor
Ken Ackles	Actor
Olympia Dukakis	Actor
Marcia Jean Kurtz	la réceptionniste
William Bogert	Fred Brown
Eric Laneuville	Actor
Bobby Roberts	Actor
Ludwig Göransson	Composer
Herbie Hancock	Composer

Technical Credits

Brian Garfield

Gerald Wilson

Wendell Mayes

Dino DeLaurentiis	Executive Producer
Hal Landers	Producer
Bobby Roberts	Producer
Michael Winner	Director,Producer
Brian Garfield	Screenwriter
Gerald Wilson	Screenwriter
Dino De Laurentiis	Producer
Alfred Cox	Sound Effects
James Sabat	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Jim Shields	Sound Effects
Hugh Strain	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Arthur Bloom	Sound Effects
Wendell Mayes	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Michael Winner's bloody revenge thriller turned longtime character actor Charles Bronson into a superstar, but despite its stylish photography, it's a routine genre film. The story concerns an architect (Charles Bronson) who is transformed into a vengeful killer after his wife (Hope Lange) is murdered and his daughter raped. Like Dirty Harry (1971), Winner's ugly fantasy tapped public fears aroused by the rising crime rates of the period. The stoic, granitic face of Bronson was the one that audiences wanted to show to criminals. Most of the film is set in a bleak, stripped-down New York, which becomes a shooting gallery populated only by Bronson and the various muggers and thugs that are his targets. Like Clint Eastwood in his star-making role in A Fisful of Dollars (1964), the actor has little to do besides glower menancingly and shoot, but Vince Gardenia is excellent as the cop in pursuit of the gun-crazy architect. Although source author Brian Garfield was publicly critical of the film's violence, the character became Bronson's franchise, and he would go on to star in a series of sequels.