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Distributor RCA Columbia Pictures Hoyts
Catalogue Number CVT 10459
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by Lee James Turnock
After toiling in the supporting casts of Hollywood for years as a solid character actor, Charles Bronson finally became an unlikely leading man in a series of films directed by Michael Winner, including the Stone Killer and the Mechanic, before finally hitting the big time with Death Wish. As the eighties dawned, Bronson's career entered its exploitation phase (think Death Wish II and 10 to Midnight) and the Evil That Men Do - adapted from R. Lance Hill's notably gruelling novel - fits firmly into this stage of the stone-faced star's resumé. Amazingly, it's not a Cannon presentation - this one comes to us courtesy of ITC Entertainment, and Bronson's then-wife Jill Ireland gets a producer's credit. Bronson plays a retired hitman coaxed out of his Cayman Islands retreat for one last job, tracking down a government-sponsored doctor whose speciality is imaginative torture. Although it's hardly worthy of the tag "Bronson's most depraved picture" the Radio Times Guide to Film gave it in a typically dismissive review, it's still strong stuff, especially when we see the doctor at work (or hear about his hideous crimes from his victims) - but the scene where a hulking villain in a seedy bar gets his genitals virtually wrenched off, and the chaotic, cathartic finalé, will have the faint-hearted switching off in droves. J.Lee Thompson directs this bloody saga with his customary precision, and Bronson offers one of his finest, most persuasive performances.