
“What the cops can't do, he will.”
A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado.
Release Date: 9/16/1988
Runtime: 91 minutes
Languages: English
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Budget: $5.0M
Revenue: $3.1M
Companies: Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group
Countries: United States of America
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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.
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Charles Bronson
Garret Smith

Trish Van Devere
Jastra Watson

Laurence Luckinbill
Homer Foxx

Daniel Benzali
Barney Doyle

Marilyn Hassett
Josephine Fabrizio

Charles Dierkop
Orville Beecham

Jeff Corey
Willis Beecham

John Ireland
Zenas Beecham

Penny Peyser
Trudy Pike

Gene Davis
Junior Assassin
John Solari
Senior Assassin

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