By David in TN
saturday, august 16, 2025 at 12:29:00 a.m. edt
On TCM, this Saturday is Charles Bronson Day. At Midnight ET, the feature is Death Wish (1974).
Bronson plays an architect who, after is wife is beaten to death, and his daughter in a permanent state of shock, goes out on the New York streets and shoots muggers. It was attacked by liberals at the time. Bronson, in a rare interview, said that at his childhood home: "When we had snakes in the garden, we stomped them."
N.S.: The Boss and her late father used to go out in their garden with clubs, and beat snakes to death.
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The original was powerful stuff,as was "DW II". Bruce Willis was Kersey in 2018's remake. From the trailer for the latter,I gathered that only Whites were perps. "DW II" had a mixed gang of maniacs,I don't recall the first Bronson "DW" gang members specifically,but I doubt they were all White.
Those early films got you so wrapped up in the story that you wanted to buy a gun and go looking for scum yourself.
--GRA
My recent post linking to Don Siegel's COUNT THE HOURS and THE VERDICT never got highlighted- maybe you'll like this one better!
BACK TO THE WALL (1957)
This is an excellent French "noir" (with subtitles of course). It begins with a moody nighttime sequence of a man burying the corpse of his wife's lover in cement- the remainder of the movie tells how the situation came about. With gorgeous black and white cinematography and gorgeous young Jeanne Moreau in the leading role. Engrossing and not overlong.
If your internet connection, like mine, is too slow to play streaming video, I suggest downloading the movie and then watching it.
https://archive.org/details/back-to-the-wall-1958
-RM
PS- If TCM is showing Bronson's HARD TIMES (74), catch that one- it's an unsung gem, with some incredible fight scenes!
I'm sorry to hear about the snake killing. Unless they are actually poisonous they pose no danger to humans, and instead are useful critters that kill vermin, keeping down the rodent population.
Was "Hard Times" a union story? I think I saw it years ago.
--GRA
Hard Times was about an itinerant, bare-knuckle boxer (Bronson) and his promoter, James Coburn. I saw it once. Bronson was brilliant, and Coburn was very good, but otherwise, the picture was on the weak side, especially the prostitute played by Bronson's wife, Jill Ireland, whom his character unsuccessfully courts.
I NEVER saw it,lol.
--GRA
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