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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Brian Garfield (novel)
Wendell Mayes (screenplay)
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Release Date:
24 July 1974 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Vigilante, city style -- Judge, Jury, and Executioner more
Plot:
A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks in which he randomly goes out and kills would-be muggers on the mean streets after dark. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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(71 articles)
Law Abiding Citizen | Film review
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User Comments:
unquestionably Charles Bronson's finest screen hour. more (142 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Charles Bronson ... Paul Kersey

Hope Lange ... Joanna Kersey
Vincent Gardenia ... Detective Frank Ochoa
Steven Keats ... Jack Toby
William Redfield ... Sam Kreutzer
Stuart Margolin ... Ames Jainchill
Stephen Elliott ... Police Commissioner
Kathleen Tolan ... Carol Toby
Jack Wallace ... Hank
Fred J. Scollay ... District Attorney
Chris Gampel ... Ives
Robert Kya-Hill ... Joe Charles
Edward Grover ... Lt. Briggs (as Ed Grover)

Jeff Goldblum ... Freak #1
Christopher Logan ... Freak #2
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Sidewalk Vigilante (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
93 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Finland:K-18 (1974) (cut) | Finland:K-18 (2003) (uncut) | Iceland:16 | UK:18 (re-rating) (2006) (uncut) | West Germany:18 (f) | New Zealand:R16 | Argentina:16 | Australia:R | Brazil:14 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario) | France:-16 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:18 | Singapore:M18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:R

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Trivia:
Frank Sinatra was offered the role of Paul Kersey, but backed out. more
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Continuity: When Kersey is about to be robbed in the subway wagon, you can see a big brown shopping bag. In the next scene, when he leaves the wagon it is gone. It is the same shopping bag which is later related to at the police station. more
Quotes:
Paul Kersey: You've got a prime figure. You really have, you know.
Joanna Kersey: That's a euphemism for fat.
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21 out of 31 people found the following comment useful.
unquestionably Charles Bronson's finest screen hour., 26 March 2001
Author: Captaintrue35

An animated performance by the normally stoic Charles Bronson lifts what would have been a standard revenge yard to new heights. Bronson plays Paul Kersey, a typical liberal New Yorker who struggles with his bleeding heart ideals after his family become the victims of a violent crime.

Frustrated by the police's inability to solve the crime, Kersey considers taking matters into his own hands. After much soul searching he begins taking to the streets and hunting criminals.

Soon punks start turning up dead. The press glorifies the killings. The public considers the vigilante a hero. The police search in vain for the killer. And Kersey slowly begins to enjoy his new mantle of dispenser of justice.

It all ends somewhat predictably albeit satisfactorily.

Kersey's transformation from arch-liberal to gun-toting Vigilante is classic. This is unquestionably Bronson's finest on screen hour.

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