{"id":706,"date":"2002-09-14T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-14T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=706"},"modified":"2023-05-17T05:40:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T09:40:01","slug":"the-mechanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Mechanic&#8221; starring Charles Bronson &#038; Jan-Michael Vincent \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2002\/z09142002zview_themechanic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Mechanic (<\/strong><\/em><strong>1972)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:<strong> Michael Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writers: <strong>Lewis John Carlino,Monte Hellman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stars: <strong>Charles Bronson, <\/strong><strong>Jan-Michael Vincent, <\/strong><strong>Keenan Wynn, Jill Ireland<\/strong> and<strong>Frank DeKova.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Bronson<\/b> is a hit man&#8230; perhaps the best in the business. If he takes a job, the target is as good as dead. <b>Jan Michael Vincent<\/b> is the son of a mafioso who becomes <b>Bronson<\/b>&#8216;s protege&#8230; not knowing that <b>Bronson<\/b> has recently murdered his father&#8230;but he&#8217;s about to find out!<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Charles Bronson<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> had a long career staring in a bunch of great movies. <\/span><em><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">The Dirty Dozen<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">The Magnificent Seven<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Death Wish. Hard Times.<\/b><\/em><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><em><strong> The Mechanic<\/strong><\/em> is one of my favorite Bronson films.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">The opening scene shows <b>Bronson<\/b> setting up a hit and goes on for 16 minutes without a word of dialogue!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">Be prepared for a great &#8220;surprise&#8221; ending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><\/b><em><strong>The Mechanic (<\/strong><\/em><strong>1972)<\/strong> rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><br \/>\nUpdated 5\/8\/23<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mechanic (1972) Director: Michael Winner Writers: Lewis John Carlino,Monte Hellman Stars: Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Keenan Wynn, Jill Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32793,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/32793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}