Cinema: Melon-choly Baby

MR. MAJESTYK

Directed by RICHARD FLEISCHER

Screenplay by ELMORE LEONARD

Fresh from his fascistic triumphs as a vigilante on the sidewalks of New York in Death Wish, busy Charles Bronson is now giving equal time to liberalmindedness. As Mr. Majestyk, he plays a farmer trying to keep the Mafia out of his melon patch and a nice crew of Mexican migrants at work there, labor goons notwithstanding. Bronson's style is more suited to the open country than it is to the urban landscape.

It takes some doing for Writer Leonard to get the gangsters stirring...

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