Death Wish

“Vigilante, city style — judge, jury, and executioner.”

A gang breaks into the Kersey apartment in New York, kills Joanna (Hope Lange) and leaves her daughter Carol beyond help. Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson), an architect who has always called himself a pacifist, starts walking the city at night, waiting to be a target. Michael Winner shoots the dark streets in grain and sodium light, and Kersey does not look like a man who plans to stay peaceful.