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"DEATH WISH"
This is an auction for a color copy of the ENTIRE movie script from the movie.
These are autographs of:
Charles Bronson ... Paul Kersey
Michael Winner ... Director
SUMMARY
Death Wish is a 1974 action-crime-drama film based on the 1972 novel by Brian Garfield. The film was directed by Michael Winner and stars Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, a man who becomes a vigilante after his wife is murdered and his daughter is sexually assaulted by muggers. The film was a major commercial success and generated a movie franchise lasting four sequels over a twenty-year period. The film was widely denounced by critics for advocating vigilantism and unlimited punishment to criminals.
The film opens with Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) and his wife Joanna (Hope Lange) vacationing in Hawaii through montage. They return to New York City where Paul works as an architect. That day, Joanna and their daughter Carol Anne (Kathleen Tolan) are out shopping for groceries at a nearby store. Three hooligans are wreaking havoc in the supermarket, and catch Joanna's address after telling the man that she would like the groceries sent to her apartment. The hooligans follow her to the apartment, and ring the doorbell. Believing it to be the baggage man from the grocery store, Carol answers. The hooligans proceed in and trash the apartment. The hooligans then search the apartment for money, but only find $7. The three hooligans then rape Carol, killing Joanna in the process.
Paul receives a call from his son-in-law Jack Toby (Steven Keats) explaining that both Joanna and Carol are in the hospital, but is not told yet of their current condition. After waiting impatiently at the hospital, Paul is told by a doctor that his wife has died. Devastated by the loss, he goes to the police but is told that catching the criminals will be useless. The next day at work, Paul's boss gives him an extended business vacation: to Tucson, Arizona to meet a client, Ames Jainchill (Stuart Margolin), who shows him the ropes. (Jack also agrees and states it’s a wonderful idea.)
While in Arizona, Paul witnesses a mock gunfight at Old Tucson, a reconstructed Western frontier town that is often used as a movie set. The day before Paul leaves, Ames invites him to a gun club, and is impressed when Paul shoots near bulls-eye accuracy (he reveals that used to be a crack shot in his youth, but was a "CO" (conscientious objector) during the Korean war but still served his country in the medical corps). Ames drops Paul off at the airport, and puts a little going-away present in his bag.
Upon arriving back in New York, he is greeted by Jack who informs Paul of his daughter's weak comatose condition. Paul visits her before going back to the apartment to unload his suitcase. He opens Ames' present; a nickel plated .32 cal revolver in a gun case. He puts the gun in his pocket as he takes a nightly stroll. He shoots his first mugger, Thomas Leroy Marston, and is shocked at the fact that he just killed a human being, and throws up. However, he continues with his vigilantism; he kills 3 more men robbing a homeless man, 2 more on the train, 2 more in the subway (although one gets away mortally wounded and later dies at the hospital), and three more on the stairs before Paul is wounded himself by a 12th mugger. He lets him go as Paul collapses at that point. (The three men who assaulted Kersey’s family are never seen again after the crime, but it leaves the speculation of their fate open.)
All the while, NY police Lt. Frank Ochoa (Vincent Gardenia) tracks the vigilante killings. He has the department narrow down the list to certain war veterans, and then people whose families have been assaulted by muggers. The public, on the other hand, is happy that the crime rate is dropping and that somebody is doing something about crime. Just as he is about to apprehend Kersey when all the evidence points to him, the District Attorney (Fred J. Scollay) intervenes and tells Ochoa to "let him loose" in another city instead of arresting him. Ochoa doesn't like the idea, but relents. Ochoa then demands Kersey leave New York, permanently, to which Kersey replies: "By sundown?"
The film ends as Paul arrives in Chicago Union Station by train from New York, where he is greeted by a company representative, during which time he sees three hoodlums harassing and/or robbing a woman. He excuses himself and helps the woman out, while the hoodlums give Kersey the "middle finger." The last image is that of Kersey smiling back, making a gun shape with his right hand at the hoodlums.
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