Winner, Michael

The Mechanic

Charles Bronson delivers [in this] action-drenched (Variety) gangster thriller that delves into the dangerous minds of the underworld's most elite killers. Visually alive (Cue) and 'totally engrossing (The Hollywood Reporter), The Mechanic is a movie you won't want to miss! Arthur Bishop (Bronson) is a mob hit man who operates in a world of his own an uncompromising world where conventional rules of morality don't apply and where one wrong move could cost himhis life! He's always worked alone but, as age catches up with him, Bishop takes on a competent andruthless apprentice (Jan-Michael Vincent) and teaches him everything he knows. Together they becomean unmatchable team of globetrotting killers until the pupil's ruthlessness puts him on a collisioncourse with his teacher!

Death Wish

This controversial, 1974 drama exploits urban paranoia and presents vigilantism as cathartic release. But it is also a captivating, Everyman-ish story of a New Yorker who goes through a sea change after crime depletes his family, and who runs afoul of the law while taking it into his own hands. Charles Bronson stars as the vengeance-seeking urban warrior who goes on a punk-killing spree after his wife and daughter are attacked by intruders. Director Michael Winner (The Wicked Lady) shamelessly builds upon audience identification with Bronson's rage, but he also makes an interesting story out of the latter's tug-of-war with disapproving police. It's an unpleasant film all around, but not nearly as bad as its horrifying, numerous sequels. Watch for a very young Jeff Goldblum--in this, his second movie--as one of the assailants of Bronson's loved ones. --Tom Keogh

Death Wish 3

Paul Kersey doesn't seek out violence. It just seems to find him. But when it does...he's not about to back down! Charles Bronson brings out the heavy artillery in this gun-blazing no-holds-barred thriller!Road-worn and battle-weary Kersey longs to leave his fighting days behind him. But when he arrives in New York to visit an old friend he finds him brutally attacked and gasping for breath in a pool of blood! Now the silent avenger must wage war once more on the city's punks thugs and hoodlums. But this time he's brought a small arsenal of guns knives and even a bazooka to help him!System Requirements:Starring: Charles Bronson Deborah Raffin Ed Lauter and Martin Balsam. Directed By: Michael Winner. Running Time: 91 Min. Color. This film is presented in "Standard" format. Copyright 1985 Pathe Entertainment N.V.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 027616872968 Manufacturer No: 1003131

Death Wish 2

Paul Kersey is not your ordinary victim: He fights back with a vengeance! Legendary tough guy Charles Bronson resumes his trademark role as the hard-as-nails urban avenger in this hard-hitting action-packed sequel!With the murder of his wife and the revenge against her killers now behind him Kersey begins a new life in LA. But tragedy is never far from his door and when a group of local hoods viciously assault his daughter they unleash a wrath unlike anything the city has ever seen. Kersey has the face of each of them branded in his memory and he will not rest until he tracks every one of them down...and puts them all in the ground!System Requirements:Starring: Jill Ireland Vincent Gardenia J.D. Cannon and Anthony Franciosa. Directed By: Michael Winner. Running Time: 89 Min. Color. This film is presented in "Standard" format. Copyright 1982 American-European Productions Inc.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 027616902092 Manufacturer No: 1005978

Chato's Land

Charles Bronson (The Magnificent Seven) and Academy Award(r) winner* Jack Palance (City Slickers) star in a magnificent western as wild and untamed as the Old West itself. Bristling with dynamic action sequences and riveting performances, Chato's Land is a bold, sweeping tale of passion, vengeance and cold-blooded murder. Chato (Bronson) is a half-breed Apache Indian who treads the line between two cultures, balancing allegiance to his tribe with the allure of the white man's world. But when Chato kills a vicious sheriff in self-defense, he finds himselfhunted by a posse led by the ruthless Quincey Whitmore (Palance), a former Confederate soldier who is determined to see him hang. It's 13 men against one, but the odds shift in Chato's favor when he leads his pursuers into Apache territory, where the harsh, cruel countryside can kill as surely as agunman's bullet. *1991: Supporting Actor, City Slickers

Lawman

Burt Lancaster is excellent as the title character, a pitiless, unbending marshal out to arrest seven cowhands who left a dead man in the wake of a drunken tear, in this stoic, modern take on a classic Western theme. He confronts a rancher baron, trigger-happy gunmen, and the cowardly hypocrites of a frontier town: the usual bunch of Old West types sculpted into intriguing character by a crack cast. Robert Ryan brings a sad dignity to his former gunfighter tamed into a meek town marshal, and Lee J. Cobb is introspective and thoughtful as the aging cattleman weary of his life of violence: "It took guns to take this land, guns to keep it, and guns to make it grow.... Each time we bury the cost." Robert Duvall, Albert Salmi, and a young Richard Jordan (as an idealistic cowpoke whose sense of honor gets a workout in the complex conflicts) also star.

The first American feature by British director Michael Winner (who went on to make numerous tough Charles Bronson pictures, including the first three Death Wish movies) is lean and tough, with a streak of "passing of an era" melancholia, but surprisingly old-fashioned. The hard-edged, unsentimental violence, arid, austere look of the picture, and distracting overuse of zoom shots mark it as an unmistakable product of the early 1970s, but it's not so much cynical as sorrowful in its clash of ideals, and never less than clear-eyed in the presentation of harsh frontier realities. --Sean Axmaker

Burt Lancaster is an uncompromising lawman who defies the odds when he single-handedly confronts a gang of killers in this "extraordinarily perceptive" (Films & Filming) and action-packed taleof life and justice on the American frontier. When Sabbath town-boss Vincent Bronson (Cobb) and his drunken ranch hands unwittingly kill an old man in Bannack, everyone knows it was an accident. Everyone, that is, except Bannack's marshal, Jered Maddox (Lancaster). A tough, no-nonsense manof the law, Maddox is determined to bring the killers to justice. Trailing them back to Sabbath, Maddox makes his intentions clear: "I'm gonna take these men back with me," he vows, "or kill them where they stand." So when Bronson sends word that he wants to make a deal, the inflexible Maddox refuses, a decision that forces Bronson's men to let their guns do the talking. But Jered Maddox is not aman to back down...he'll bring these desperate killers back to Bannack, his way. Dead or alive.

The Sentinel

Won Ton Ton the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Won Ton Ton, The Dog Who Saved Hollywood is a delightful romp that will delight anyone who's ever been enchanted by the movies. Won Ton Ton is an amazing mutt who gets discovered by a studio bus driver, Grayson Potchuck (Bruce Dern). He soon touches the lives and changes the fortunes of all who cross his path, including Art Carney, Teri Garr and a never funnier Madeline Kahn. There's also a veritable who's who of Golden Age Hollywood talent on display here, and you'll see some of your favorite stars of all time singing and dancing and getting big laughs. See how many you can spot! Won Ton Ton is the dog who saved Hollywood, and he's sure to be the dog that steals your heart!

The Big Sleep

Robert Mitchum is back as the legendary private investigator Philip Marlowe. This adaptation of Raymond Chandler's classic hard-boiled detective mystery features an all-star cast.Marlowe is hired by a retired general (James Stewart) to find out who has been blackmailing the old man's wild daughters (Sarah Miles and Candy Clark). At the same time he has to try to locate the missing husband of one of the daughters. Marlowe's search leads through a dangerous thicket of murder and suicide in the seedy criminal underworld straight to the headquarters of the notorious nightclub owner and gangland boss Eddie Mars (Oliver Reed). Expert storyteller Raymond Chandler spins a masterful web of deceit creating an intricate spellbinding mystery full of bare-knuckle action and heart-pounding suspense.System Requirements: Running Time 102 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 012236125358 Manufacturer No: 12535

The Nightcomers

Isolated in a traditional English country manor two rich orphans--Miles (Christopher Ellis) and Flora (Verna Harvey)--have only their nurse their housekeeper and a strange gardener named Quint (Marlon Brando) to provide them with company and care. The youngsters are particularly intrigued by Quint's mannerisms intuition and omniscience. Witnessing Quint and his prurient relationship with their nurse Miss Jessel (Stephanie Beacham) profoundly influences their budding sexual desires and soon the children begin to mimic their caretakers. Things take a drastic turn however when the odd parental figures seem as if they're going to split up and the children take violent measures to secure an eternal union.Teetering somewhere between psychodrama and psychedelia NIGHTCOMERS is an aesthetically captivating film. Michael Winner breathes life into a whimsical story unveiling the origin of the children from the Henry James novel TURN OF THE SCREW. Brando s performance as the seemingly wholesome gardener is eerie and the shocking ending of NIGHTCOMERS is truly haunting.Runtime: 96 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 012236211709 Manufacturer No: 21170