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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Rape & Sexual Abuse, Not For Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1985 DVD Release: 02/03/2004 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 31 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 11 Genres: Action, Action Thriller, Urban Drama

Michael Winner ups the ante once again in Death Wish 3. Any pretense of Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) having a career in architecture is completely gone. Kersey's new career appears to be as a professional vigilante, blowing away muggers, rapists and thieves off the mean streets -- or as he terms it "thinning the herd." Back in New York City, Kersey, with his usual luck, arrives just in time to find an old friend dying after a vicious beating by a multi-cultural gang of thugs. The cops arrest Kersey, but it just so happens that police chief Richard S. Shriker (Ed Lauter) is like Kersey with a badge: "I'm the law, and that means I get to violate your civil rights." He makes a deal with Kersey: he can go free as long as he keeps the cops informed of his death counts. Kersey grunts in agreement and proceeds to move into a decaying tenement building in the middle of a bombed out gang war zone. The building is populated by a group of elderly tenants who are terrified by the neighborhood gang warfare. Kersey declares his own personal war on the neighborhood gang, led by a frenzied leader named Fraker (Gavan O'Herilhy), who wears a reverse Mohawk hair-style. As Kersey devises booby traps and trip-wire bombs to confound the gang, the senior citizens gleefully take pot shots at the wounded gang members from their windows. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Charles Bronson - Paul Kersey
Deborah Raffin - Kathryn Davis
Ed Lauter - Richard Striker
Martin Balsam - Bennett
Gavan O'Herlihy - Fraker

Charles Bronson gets an elephant gun and goes out for a Fudgesicle after a gang of street punks take over his neighborhood in this, the third film in the Death Wish series, which gets a straightforward release on DVD. Death Wish 3 has been given a pan-and-scan transfer to disc in the full-frame aspect ratio of 1.33:1, while the audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital Mono. The dialogue is in English, with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, and French. The film's original theatrical trailer appears as a bonus. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide