Product Description

Cinema's most rugged tough guy, Charles Bronson, threads his uncompromising coolness through a tight weave of car chases, shootouts and bare-knuckle brawling in this gritty, forceful action film (LA Herald-Examiner)! Bronson stars as Majestyk, an ex-con and Vietnam vet whose efforts to run a farm are thwarted by narrow-minded locals and corrupt cops. But when a Mafia hitman (Al Lettieri) destroys Majestyk's crop, the farmer's fuse is finally blown. With his rifle in hand and his girlfriend (Linda Cristal) at the wheel, he goes after the syndicate assassin. And from high-speed back-road chases to an explosive backwoods confrontation, mobster and maverick stalk each other: two of a kind, antagonists to the death.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13841 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-02-04
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 103 minutes

Amazon.com
Vince Majestyk (Charles Bronson) absolutely has to get his watermelon crop in, come hell or high water, and nothing in the world is going to stop him. Trouble comes, however, in the form of Bobby Kopas (Paul Koslo), who tries to force Majestyk to use a crew of winos rather than Majestyk's hand-picked migrant crew. After Majestyk cleans his clock, Kopas swears out an assault complaint, and soon the melon grower finds himself in the county lockup. In jail he meets hit man Renda (Al Lettieri), and the two regard each other with hostility and suspicion. In a segment worthy of action director John Frankenheimer, Renda's pals try to break him out of a prison bus in a street shootout. Instead, Majestyk commandeers the bus and drives off with Renda, with the intention of using him as a pawn to get the charges dropped on himself…so he can get his melon crop in, of course. The script for Mr. Majestyk was written by none other than Elmore Leonard himself, and the rhythms of his hard-bitten prose are clear throughout. As expected with a Leonard story, there are plenty of plot flip-flops and more than a little tongue-in-cheek humor (the flinty Bronson even gets a few of the good lines). A word of warning: Vegetarians and those with sensitive temperaments may be disturbed by the machine-gun slaughter of hundreds of defenseless watermelons, in one of the movie's more sublime scenes. It's not great stuff, but Mr. Majestyk is a fast-moving '70s action flick that doesn't take itself too seriously and isn't above a blithely ridiculous plot device or two. --Jerry Renshaw

Customer Reviews

How to drive your wife crazy
This is a great 'guy' movie that can be watched over and over again. Poor Charles Bronson, he just "wants to get his melons in." This is a classic David pummles Golieth story.

Mr. Majestyk Don't mess with Mr.Bronson
I want to give this movie 20 stars but i can't. Charles Bronson plays one of his best roles here. Just an ordinary farmer who wants to get his melons in. But when Bobby Kopas tries to give him trouble all hell breaks loose.Bronson keeps it nice and simple from Start till Mid-Way in the movie and only really breaks free at the end,when he has not 1 but 2 guys who are after him
hit man Renda (Al Lettieri)who he meets up in jail thanks to Bobby Kopas.

Al Lettri plays a perfect part in this movie as a mafia boss.I don't want to spoil the movie but this is just right down the best 70's movie made Way to go Bronson.The dvd has a great picture and sound quality for a 70's movie.
I have 1 little complaint to make to MGM where is the Bio on Charles Bronson? there has been many films released but none contain A FULL BIO on poor MR.CHARLES BRONSON please can you include it in the next movie you release.

one of Bronson's Best
Bronson's character is constantly underrated by everyone in the movie, especially the mafia hitman. it is just great to see Bronson is really in charge the whole time. It's a little movie, but perfect for it's type. Bronson is never better.