Paul Talbot - Bronsons Loose Again! On the Set with Charles Bronson

After the publication of Bronsons Loose!: The Making of the Death WishFilms, I located and interviewed a half-dozen more alumni of the Death Wish sequels. This inspired an exhaustive search for more living cast and crew members who had worked with Charles Bronson on non Death Wish movies. The collection of three dozen new interviews plus an abundance of ongoing, extensive research snowballed into enough material for this companion book.

Bronsons Loose Again!: On the Set with Charles Bronson covers Bronsons career after the first Death Wish as well as during and after the sequels. Documented herein are production stories behind some of the best Bronson films of the 1970s; his work in the 1980s (including his pictures for the notorious Cannon Films); and his return to acting after a brief hiatus in the early 1990s in television movies that featured some of the more interesting performances of his entire filmography.

For this book, I wrote only about Bronson movies for which I could secure at least one primary interview. Films that have already been extensively covered elsewhere are not discussed here. Examples:the making of Mr. Majestyk (1974) is discussed in Walter Mirischs autobiography I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History and in Richard Fleischers book Just Tell Me When To Cry; the making of Telefon (1977) is detailed in Don Siegels memoir A Siegel Film; and the extras on the Death Hunt (1981) Blu-ray (from Shout! Factory) cover everything about that film.

This book is intended to be read by those who have already seen the movies that are discussed. The story synopses in each chapter rarely run longer than one sentencebut the quotes, the anecdotes and the information contain spoilers. Each chapter is intended to be a stand alone piece to be read after each film is watched (or rewatched). There is some (very) minor overlapping of information between several chapters in this book and in the previous Bronsons Loose! book.

When the first Bronsons Loose! was released, I was amazed to learn that many Bronson fans were decades younger than me and that the stars young audience continues to expand. I hope that this book will entertain the Bronson buffs who want to learn more about cult favorites like Hard Times (1975), the Death Wish sequels (19821994), 10 to Midnight (1983), and Murphys Law (1986). I also hope that these chapters will lead more Bronson fans to discover or reevaluate his lesser-known,underrated films like From Noon Till Three (1976), Borderline (1980), Act of Vengeance (1986), and The Sea Wolf (1993).

No other action icon ever aged as well onscreen as Bronson did. He remains one of the most exciting and unique screen personalities in film history. It doesnt get better than Bronson.