Death Wish Page #5

Synopsis: Open-minded architect Paul Kersey returns to New York City from vacationing with his wife, feeling on top of the world. At the office, his cynical coworker gives him the welcome-back with a warning on the rising crime rate. But Paul, a bleeding-heart liberal, thinks of crime as being caused by poverty. However his coworker's ranting proves to be more than true when Paul's wife is killed and his daughter is raped in his own apartment. The police have no reliable leads and his overly sensitive son-in-law only exacerbates Paul's feeling of hopelessness. He is now facing the reality that the police can't be everywhere at once. Out of sympathy his boss gives him an assignment in sunny Arizona where Paul gets a taste of the Old West ideals. He returns to New York with a compromised view on muggers...
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Michael Winner
Production: Paramount Pictures
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
R
Year:
1974
93 min
1,070 Views


and bring us the money, honey.

How much money you got, honey?

What the f***?

- Units at the 26 Precinct. A 1034.

125 Street on the West Side highway.

Fill your hand.

Draw.

All right, get back!

Where's this patrolman?

- You're Reilly?

- Yes.

- I'm Ochoa.

- Yes, sir.

- You were the first on the scene?

- Yes.

God bless you, sir.

Never mind that. They told me

on the radio you had to see me.

Paul Kersey.

- You spoke to him before the ambulance?

- No, sir.

- What did you get?

- His address.

Is that all?

Well?

- You enter this on your report?

- Not yet, sir.

Why not?

I was waiting for instructions, sir.

You never saw it.

Yes, sir.

Oh, what's your full name?

Jackson Reilly, sir. 21st Precinct.

Okay. I'll remember it.

- Do you have the vigilante?

- No.

Well, who have you got there?

You in charge? How is he?

Wounds are clean, nothing vital.

Soon as we get some blood in him,

we'll sew him up.

- All right if I go in?

- He won't be able to talk.

- Can he hear me?

- He is conscious.

Police. I'd like to have him alone.

Good evening, Mr. Kersey.

This is your gun.

We gave you a chance to get rid of it.

You wouldn't take it.

Do you hear me okay?

We have here a peculiar situation,

Mr. Kersey.

It's necessary to make a proposition

since you won't favor us by dying.

You work for a company

with lots of offices.

Get a transfer to another city...

...and I'll drop this gun

in the river.

Are we connecting, Mr. Kersey?

We want you to get out of New York.

Permanently.

Inspector...

...by sundown?

There he is.

Do you have the vigilante?

- Like to give us some information?

- No.

- Is the wounded man the vigilante?

- He's just a mugging victim.

- What about reports that he is?

- False reports.

- Then he's still out there.

- That's right.

Was he shot by the vigilante?

Mr. Kersey.

Fred Brown. Welcome to Chicago.

- Nice trip?

- It was okay.

I found a nice apartment for you

on Lakeshore Drive...

...a view of Lake Michigan.

Your office is ready too.

There's a good golf club we can play.

- I think you'll enjoy it here.

- Excuse me.

SkyFury

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Wendell Mayes

Wendell Curran Mayes (July 21, 1919 – March 28, 1992) was a Hollywood screenwriter. more…

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