Brand new factory sealed dvd has a small endentation on the cover, by the shell casing ejection opening on his gun (see photo). Has a tiny break in the paper underneath it. Another small endentation is on his forehead's hairline and is barely visible.
Charles Bronson plays a liberal, an architect, a former conscientious objector. But he turns into a man of action after his wife is murdered and his daughter reduced to catatonia by muggers (Jeff Goldblum in his creepy debut).
Seeking a change of scenery, he visits his firm's Arizona office. And there he meets an architect with two deep convictions: a love for the land and a love of guns. He takes Bronson to his gun club, watches him squeeze off a few perfect practice rounds and slips a present into his suitcase when he heads back to New York. It's a .32-caliber revolver.
Alone in his apartment, Bronson examines snapshots from his recent Hawaiian vacation with his wife. Then he examines the gun. He goes out into the night, is attacked by a mugger and shoots him dead. Then he goes home and throws up. But the taste for vengeance, once acquired, has a fascination of its own. And the last half of DEATH WISH is essentially a series of cat-and-mouse games, in which Bronson poses as a middle-aged citizen with a bag of groceries and then murders his attackers.
His muggings and their surprise endings have a sort of rhythm to them; we're set up for each one almost like the gunfights in Westerns. There's never any question of injustice, because the crimes are attempted right there before our eyes. And then Bronson becomes judge, jury--and executioner.