A terrific Charles Bronson story.

This has nothing to do with any of the subjects we deal with right here at West Coast Stat Views. I’ve no good excuse for posting it apart from, as beforehand talked about, it is an excellent Charles Bronson story, and I’ve all the time been a giant fan of Bronson, notably earlier than the Cannon Movies years.

So long as he was really given one thing to do, just about all of his movie and tv work earlier than the 70s was fantastic, wry, economical, and with actual sensitivity. His performances on the Twilight Zone and Have Gun Will Journey have been sequence highlights. He was typically one of the best factor in these large, manly ensemble items, the Magnificent Seven, the Nice Escape, and the Soiled Dozen (his closing remark was maybe one of the best line within the final one). He greater than held his personal with Henry Fonda and Jason Robards in As soon as Upon a Time within the West.

He additionally turned in first-rate performances in lesser however nonetheless worth-a-look motion pictures like Grasp of the World, the Mechanic (full with 70s nihilism and a surprisingly apparent homoerotic subtext), and Pink Solar (neglect the critics, if the thought of a buddy motion comedy with Bronson and Toshirô Mifune seems like enjoyable, you may take pleasure in this film).

Amongst others who shared my excessive opinion of the actor. Ingmar Bergman was on report as admiring his work and calling him “scandalously underestimated.”

Charles Bronson’s childhood was one thing out of Dickens which explains this glorious story from Kurt Russell.