Messenger of Death

9/16/19881h 31m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ What the cops can't do, he will. ~

Overview:

A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado.

Director:

J. Lee Thompson

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$5,000,000.00

Revenue:

$3,074,681.00

Key words:

based on novel or book
revenge
mormon
newspaper reporter
murder of family
investigative reporter

Cast

Charles Bronson

~ as ~

Garret Smith

Trish Van Devere

~ as ~

Jastra Watson

Laurence Luckinbill

~ as ~

Homer Foxx

Daniel Benzali

~ as ~

Chief Barney Doyle

Marilyn Hassett

~ as ~

Josephine Fabrizio

Charles Dierkop

~ as ~

Orville Beecham

Jeff Corey

~ as ~

Willis Beecham

John Ireland

~ as ~

Zenas Beecham

Penny Peyser

~ as ~

Trudy Pike

Gene Davis

~ as ~

Junior Assassin

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Reviews (1)

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kevin2019
Written 1 year(s) ago
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"Messenger of Death" harks back to a period in Charles Bronson's career when the films he selected to appear in were not almost exclusively preoccupied with the squalid and violent mean streets of "Death Wish" (1974) and the seemingly limitless stream of increasingly pale sequels and imitations it spawned. Bronson rarely participates in any of the action sequences in this film and the story is much stronger and better constructed than usual. The central location of Colorado with its light dusting of snow looks exquisitely chilly and absolutely gorgeous. The most thrilling and exciting of the small ration of action sequences features a Landrover doing battle against two huge tankers and the resulting scene has been superbly put on the screen, but best of all it's good to see Charles Bronson appearing in films which have more substance than we have come to expect.