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If you're a Charles Bronson fan...

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...he's at his badass best in this one. Little known film he made in '69. This has all your favorite kinda shit. I actually think it's better than "Hard Times" and much cooler than "The Mechanic" and both of those were great films.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064598/

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Wasn't the overseas version of that film called Twink or something?
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You are up on your films Turd. It was actually "Twinky" but you were close enough. No knife fighting in this one though :(

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I haven't seen it, but it sounds like the foreign types wanted to highlight some sort of underlying manrammerish undertone.

Are there a lot of camping scenes in the movie? There was another movie from that era like that, it had banjos in the movie too.
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Sounds like Roman Polanski would have been a better directorial choice.
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This film is so off the hizzook, it couldn't be made today for various artistic and legal reasons.

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Well everybody knows Charlie Bronson wasn't much of a character actor, he tended to play characters he could relate to.
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Deathwish IV for the LOLz win!


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Funny, years later I met Susan George and her husband Simon McCorkindale. They were judges at a Miss Universe Pageant in Miami I was working at. Very nice couple. Simon worked with Charley on a movie, Caba Blanco or something like that. They both said they had the best time with him since he approached acting as a job, and felt good getting paid well for something easier than digging coal.

Kind of an odd film.
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Watched "Once upon a time in the West." again last night.

Bronson, Fonda, Robbards, great flick.




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Shaggy, was Susan George the 'wife' in the movie?
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