Mr. Majestyk

Mr. Majestyk is a 1974 American action film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charles Bronson. The film is from an original screenplay written by author Elmore Leonard. He also wrote the novelization based on the movie, a reversal of the usual process of adaptation. Leonard took the title characters last name from a character in his 1969 crime novel The Big Bounce.

A smalltime hoodlum, Bobby Kopas Paul Koslo, attempts to coerce Majestyk into a protection racket of using unskilled drunks to harvest his watermelon crop. Majestyk runs Kopas off with hisgauge Winchester Model 1200 shotgun and hires skilled Mexican migrant workers, including Nancy Chavez Linda Cristal, a crops picker union leader. They begin a relationship. Kopas brings assault charges against Majestyk, resulting in the farmer being arrested and held in the local jail.There he meets Frank Renda Al Lettieri, a notorious mob hit man being transferred to a highersecurity prison. Rendas men try to break him out of police custody during a prisoner transport by bus. In the escape attempt, Majestyk drives off in the bus with Renda still in handcuffs. Majestyk plans on trading Renda to the police in return for being released to finish his harvest. Renda offers his captor 25,000 for his freedom, but Majestyk just wants to get back to his melons. ........

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