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Messenger of Death

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5.9/10 • 80

1988-09-161h 31m

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What the cops can't do, he will.

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

Directors
J. Lee Thompson
Editors
Peter Lee-Thompson

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  1. Charles Bronson

    Charles Bronson

    Garret Smith

  2. Trish Van Devere

    Trish Van Devere

    Jastra Watson

  3. Laurence Luckinbill

    Laurence Luckinbill

    Homer Foxx

  4. Daniel Benzali

    Daniel Benzali

    Chief Barney Doyle

  5. Marilyn Hassett

    Marilyn Hassett

    Josephine Fabrizio

  6. Charles Dierkop

    Charles Dierkop

    Orville Beecham

  7. Jeff Corey

    Jeff Corey

    Willis Beecham

  8. John Ireland

    John Ireland

    Zenas Beecham

  9. Penny Peyser

    Penny Peyser

    Trudy Pike

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kevin2019

Feb 12, 2024

8/10

"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.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$5,000,000.00
Revenue
$3,074,681.00
Keywords
based on novel or bookrevengemormonnewspaper reportermurder of familyinvestigative reporter