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Check out more great content from Stream TV on our official YouTube channel. Once Upon A Time In The WestĪ leading role in one of the greatest westerns ever made.Top 10 Charles Bronson Movies of All Time In this video, we will show you a top 10 list of the best Charles Bronson movies ever made. The Mechanic (which was remade a few years ago with Jason Statham) was arguably their best work together – a patient and evenly paced action thriller that has one of the best opening sequences in 1970s Hollywood action cinema. While it’s arguable that Michael Winner – as director of Death Wish II – was somehow partly responsible for Bronson’s career demise in the 1980s, the pair nevertheless enjoyed a fruitful collaboration in the first half of the 1970s, which resulted in films like Chato’s Land (also 1972), The Stone Killer (1973) and Death Wish. “All those method guys – De Niro, Stallone and what’s his name, Pacino – they’re all the same. “I can play character better because of my experience – because of all the things that I have been through,” he said. While his multi-faceted performance as a menacing investigator in a rape/murder case may have been lost on American audiences of the day, it’s interesting to note that Bronson was always quietly confident of his own acting abilities, as noted during an interview with The Washington Post some seven years later. Rider On The RainĪccording to the literature, Charles Bronson’s star had already started to seriously shine in Europe when this well-made and (ultimately) well-received psychological thriller was released. Released between Walter Hill’s 1975 depression-era melodrama Hard Times (or The Streetfighter for those outside of the US) and Breakheart Pass, this western saw Bronson again team with his real-life wife Jill Ireland in an offbeat romantic comedy that helped some critics finally realise that his thespian abilities were not just limited to being a stoic tough guy.
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(They did collaborate together again in Breakheart Pass during 1975 before Gries’ death in 1977.) For a modest prison break movie Breakout is not too shabby – plus Sheree North looks really hot. I recall reading somewhere that Bronson liked working with Tom Gries – the man who directed Charlton Heston in Will Penny (1968) – which may somehow account for his reasonably relaxed performance in this sleeper of a movie.
The fact he ends up getting the girl ( Lee Remick) shows he had the ability to pass himself off as a romantic (albeit unconventional) lead. Telefonīronson’s not bad as an English-speaking member of the KGB who is sent to the US to help stop hypnotised saboteurs from blowing things up. If anything, it’s a leading role amongst another A-list cast. Also, because he can speak some German, he ends up playing an integral part in the US army’s plot to infiltrate a Nazi stronghold in the lead up to D-Day. In this violent World War II actioner, Bronson is the only member of the dozen to survive. He later reteamed with Sturges for the western Chino (aka The Valdez Horses) in 1973. The Great Escapeīronson had already been in a John Sturges all-star extravaganza ( The Magnificent Seven in 1960) before playing one of the few characters who actually escapes from the Nazis in this almost three-hour WWII epic.Īs Danny, the Polish-born tunnel king who suffers from claustrophobia, Bronson quietly provides the film with one of its key characters.
Red Sunīronson holds his own against Akira Kurosawa regular Toshiro Mifune in this offbeat buddy western about a cowboy, a samurai warrior and their noble quest to retrieve a stolen sword. While Bronson only has a supporting role as a suicidal father, this deserves a mention as it more or less marked his return to proper acting after a decade of making vigilante exploitation movies for the likes of Michael Winner and J Lee Thompson. In part one of this instalment ( see part 2 here), Mark Fraser looks at some of Bronson’s finer cinematic moments. This all went awry, however, when he agreed to make a sequel to the immensely popular Death Wish (1974) during the early 1980s. During the first 30 years of his career, Charles Bronson (1921- 2003) well and truly established himself as a bona fide Hollywood character actor while working with some of the film industry’s leading directors.