Mr Majestyk
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82% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Action, Crime, Drama Language English | 6.8/10 IMDb Initial DVD release February 4, 2003 Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date July 17, 1974 (1974-07-17) Based on Mr. Majestyk byElmore Leonard Cast (Vince Majestyk), (Frank Renda), (Nancy Chavez), (Wiley), (Bobby Kopas), Taylor Lacher (Gene Lundy)Similar movies Mad Max: Fury Road , John Wick , Looper , Taken 3 , Salt , Deadbeat Tagline He didn't want to be hero... until the day they pushed him too far. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mr. Majestyk is a 1974 American action film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charles Bronson. The film is from an original screenplay written by author Elmore Leonard. He also wrote the novelization based on the movie, a reversal of the usual process of adaptation. Leonard took the title character's last name from a character in his 1969 crime novel The Big Bounce.
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- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Reception
- Tie ins
- References
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Plot
Vince Majestyk (Charles Bronson) is a farmer, a former U. S. Army Ranger instructor and Vietnam War veteran, who owns and operates a watermelon farm in rural Colorado. He needs to harvest his crop in order to keep the farm financially solvent.
A small-time hoodlum, Bobby Kopas (Paul Koslo), attempts to coerce Majestyk into a protection racket of using unskilled drunks to harvest his watermelon crop. Majestyk runs him off with Kopas's own 12 gauge Winchester Model 1200 shotgun and hires skilled Mexican migrant workers, including Nancy Chavez (Linda Cristal), a crops picker union leader. They begin a relationship. Kopas brings assault charges against Majestyk, resulting in the farmer being placed under arrest.
In jail, Majestyk meets and annoys Frank Renda (Al Lettieri), a notorious mob hit man being transferred to a higher-security prison. Renda's men try to break him out of police custody during a prisoner transport by bus. In the escape attempt, Majestyk drives off in the bus with Renda still in handcuffs. Majestyk plans on trading Renda to the police in return for being released to finish his harvest. Renda offers his captor $25,000 for his freedom, but Majestyk just wants to get back and pick his melons.
With the help of his girlfriend Wiley (Lee Purcell), Renda escapes from Majestyk. He meets up with his right-hand man Lundy (Taylor Lacher) and is advised to fly to Mexico to elude a police dragnet, but Renda wants revenge. He orders his men to find the "melon picker" so that he can have the satisfaction of killing him personally. Renda injures a friend of Majestyk and destroys the crop.
Majestyk turns the tables. He sets a trap at Renda's cabin hideout. Renda betrays his own men, leading to Lundy's death. He attempts to use Kopas as bait to lure out Majestyk, but when Kopas lies, Majestyk doesn't believe it. He kills Renda, after which Kopas and Wiley are arrested.
Cast
Production
The movie was filmed on location in La Junta, Colorado, Canon City, Colorado, Rocky Ford, Colorado, and Manzanola, Colorado.
Reception
The movie was popular with Bronson action film enthusiasts. Howard Thompson of the New York Times said, "Except for some dutiful splattering of gore, it ticks along rather steadily, under Richard Fleischer's unruffled direction. There is a take-it-or-leave-it air that snugly suits the star's performance, or vice versa."
Tie-ins
The Ford Motor Company used scenes licensed from the movie showing extreme driving of Majestyk's Ford Pickup truck during commercials for its 1974 F-150 model.
References
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