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In Red Sun (1971), Double-crossed train robber Link, played by Charles Bronson is forced into partnership with Samurai Kuroda, played by Toshiro Mifune. And they really don't get along for a while so Link tries to ditch Kuroda, with less than stellar results.


It's a fun movie, and the collaboration here is notable in that Mifune was well known for his role in The Seven Samurai while Bronson is equally known for his role in The Magnificent Seven, an American adaptation of that movie. Both are classics.

Also stars Ursula Andress and Alain Delon. Definitely worth watching.

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Charles Bronson is on a train with an all-star cast in Breakheart Pass (1975).
People are dying, but no one knows why, or who is doing it. Can Bronson figure it out after he finishes fighting with Archie Moore on the roof of that train? (And BTW, that fight scene was filmed atop a real moving train. No CGI there.)
Also in this movie: Richard Crenna, David Huddleston, Charles Durning, Ed Lauter (a pal of Bronson, they starred in several movies together), Jill Ireland, Robert Tessier, and Ben Johnson.

And if you like steam trains, you really need to see this one. Truly a great movie, made back when movies were worth seeing.

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In Mr. Majestyk, Charles Bronson shows us how union thugs should be handled whenever they show up at a business.



Wal-Mart, take notes.

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I'm reminded of this classic bit from Death Wish every time I ride DC's Metro.

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The beginning of "One Upon a Time in the West", where mysterious Harmonica, played by Charles Bronson, deals with three thugs sent by Frank, played by Henry Fonda. And that lead thug? Noted character actor Jack Elam.

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In the 1968 film Villa Rides, we see Pancho Villa's right-hand killer Rodolfo Fierro, played by Charles Bronson, killing captured Mexican soldiers for fun. American pilot Lee Arnold, played by Robert Mitchum, tries to stop him, rather unsuccessfully. But just as Fierro takes aim to shoot Arnold, Pancho Villa makes his entrance.

Recognize Villa? That's Yul Brenner with a toupee.

And in this second clip, with better graphics (and, regrettably, Dutch subtitles), Fierro refuses to fly in the plane, so Villa orders Arnold to teach him to fly it...immediately.


My flying lessons were nothing like that!

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In this clip from Death Wish 3 (1985), Charles Bronson shows us yet again how to reduce crime rates in the inner city.


Then he kills the Giggler, and the people cheer.

But then the gang punks rampage, like Democrat voters when the welfare checks stop coming. So Bronson takes them all on, and he's man enough to hold a Browning 1919 by the barrel shroud without even getting burned! Then he gets back-up from the detective who's been trying to catch him since he got in town, and they clean up the punks big-time.


Now THAT is Community-oriented policing.


Bronson made five Death Wish movies from 1974 to 1994. A few years ago, Sylvester Stallone mulled the idea of re-making the original and starring in it himself. But he didn't, and it's just as well, because that gun-control-supporting hack has never had what it takes to fill Charles Bronson's shoes.

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In this scene from the 1975 movie Hard Times, Charles Bronson fights bare-knuckle brawls while his fast-talking promoter, Speed (played by James Coburn) sets up the fights and blows the winnings.

In this scene, he's fighting Robert Tessier, a stunt man and former circus performer who was well-known back in the 70's and 80's for his roles as a villain in numerous tough-guy films. He usually played an outlaw biker or other rough, and before he took up acting, he was a paratrooper in the Korean war, earning the Silver Star and a Purple Heart. Robert Tessier died of cancer in 1990, a real man to the last.

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Vigilante Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is back in action again, because the bad guys just won't stop victimizing his family. In this scene, he probably has the best line of the entire Death Wish franchise.

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See what happens when old assassin Charles Bronson teaches young, ambitious assassin Jan Michael Vincent too much in 1972's "The Mechanic"?Moral of the story: Never trust your understudy.

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From the 1971 movie Red Sun. Here Charles Bronson, as American outlaw Link Stuart, finds himself reluctantly teamed up with Kuroda, a Samurai warrior (played by Toshiro Mifune). Stuart does his best to get away from the Samurai, but it's just not working out for him.