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Sep 6, 2015 · David Engelbach is an experienced writer and director who wrote "Gold Rush" in MacGyver's fourth season. I always love talking to episode writers, and I was fortunate to get a hold of Mr. Engelbach and ask him some questions.
- Nicholas Sweedo
Plot. Lincoln Hawk is a truck driver who also arm wrestles for extra cash. His estranged wife Christina, who is suffering from heart disease, asks that Hawk pick up their young son Michael from military school and develop a relationship with him (Hawk had left them ten years earlier).
- Death Wish
- Death Wish 2
- Death Wish 3
- Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
- Death Wish 5: The Face of Death
- The State of Death Wish
Made during one of the most prominent years of the American New Wave movement, 1974, Death Wish was a cathartic experience for American civilians of the time. Based on Brian Garfield’s 1972 novel of the same name, Death Wishwas one of the first American films to advocate the idea of vigilantism, due to the growing number of street crime, political ...
Death Wish 2 immediately took the direction of the series into a very sordid and immoral direction, being possibly the darkest entry in the entire series. The infamous Cannon Film Group, (run by co-producers Menahem Golan andYoram Globus), purchased the rights to the Death Wish name and concept from Dino De Laurentiis, the Italian producer of the o...
Where Death Wish 2 was dark, gritty and reveling in its disgusting affairs, Death Wish 3 once again took the direction of the franchise a totally different way. Despite the violence being escalated tremendously, Death Wish 3 transforms the tone of the series from an unpleasant ferocity into a carefree goofiness which is much more lighter and fun th...
After having a difficult time with Winner during the production ofDeath Wish 3, Bronson sought a new director to shoot the inevitable 4thDeath Wish film. After 6 successful collaborations, Bronson personally chose director J. Lee Thompson, as he admired the director’s tight and efficient film-making style, never demanding more than two takes and al...
Face of Death could be an incredibly ironic title because oh boy, does Bronson just look completely miserable in this one. Instead of leaving the franchise in a somewhat respectable fashion with the 4th film, Death Wish 5: The Face of Death was made as a desperate attempt to make some money for 21st Century Film Corporation, a lousy film production...
With horror director Eli Roth currently in production of a Death Wish remake starring action icon Bruce Willis, we could see a whole new wave of vigilante movies flooding the exploitation cinema scene. Despite them popping up occasionally, the vigilante genre isn’t quite as hot as it used to be, despite the sporadic hit (John Wick) keeping the spir...
Mar 15, 2022 · Based on a script by actor Gary Conway and David Engelbach, the film was pitched as a low-key character-driven drama, with the lead earmarked for a guy like Don Johnson.
Jan 1, 1987 · Routinely made in every respect, melodrama [from a story by Gary Conway and David C. Engelbach] concerns itself as much with a man's effort to win the love of his son as it does with macho...
In 1980, Cannon briefly hired Garfield to write an adaptation of his sequel to Death Wish, Death Sentence, in 1980. However, Golam and Globus did not want to use Garfield's book, preferring an original story by David Engelbach, Golan, and Hal Landers.
This predictable family drama leads up to an equally predictable battle of goliaths who fight with one arm only. Over the Top boasts one distinction: it is the first major movie about arm-wrestling. Don't look for a cycle to follow. [23 Mar 1987] Read More. By Bob Thomas.
