Frank Maxwell

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The script of Mr. Majestyk was Elmore Leonard's attempt to concentrate on the plight of Chicano migrant workers, instead the film that hit screens was extensively reshaped into a standard Charles Bronson vehicle. Hoping to make a living as a watermelon farmer, Battle-weary Vietnam veteran Vince Majestyk (Bronson) settles down in rural Colorado. Despite his new-found pacifism, Majestyk can't seem to stay out of trouble, and he lands in jail, where he plots a breakout engineered by Mob boss Frank Renda (Al Lettieri). Majestyk finds himself the main target of the Mob after offering to bring in Renda in exchange for his own freedom. It is bad enough when the crooks begin roughing up Majestyk's field hands; but when they ruthlessly machine-gun his entire melon crop, they've gone to far. Teaming up with Chicano labor activist Nancy Chavez (Linda Cristal), Majestyk decides to track down the mobsters one by one and mete out retribution.

&NFb;&NFb_;Catch two future cinematic heavyweights kick-starting their careers in this controversial 1961 drama. Low-budget movie master Roger Corman directs a young William Shatner playing Adam Cramer, a racist inciting riots throughout the South in protest of school integration. Set in the era just after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the film couldn't get theatrical distribution in its day due to its contentious subject matter.

Ignored by his own wife (Barbara Bel Geddes), a lawyer (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) begins a torrid affair with the wife (Lana Turner) of one of his partners (Jason Robards). Meanwhile, a third partner (Thomas Mitchell) embezzles from the firm. And all this is just a hint of the scandal buzzing through their little New England town. Acclaimed action director John Sturges shifts gears to helm this once-racy soap that co-stars George Hamilton.