QHow does Lt Ochoa come to suspect that Paul Kersey is the vigilante killer?
AAt first, Ochoa only has Paul's name as one on a list of 14 men who live within walking distance of D'Agostino's, are war veterans, and had someone in their family recently murdered. Although Paul comes up clean when they run a background check on him, Ochoa has him followed anyway. On a day when Paul is not at home, Ochoa breaks into the apartment, where he finds some bloody gauze in the bathroom waste basket. Ochoa has Paul's blood compared to the blood found on the knife used on him in the subway, and it matches. Now Ochoa's suspicions are confirmed. However, the district attorney tells him that he doesn't want the vigilante arrested, lest the public make a martyr out of him. He wants Ochoa merely to scare him off and get him to move to another city.
QWhat is 'Death Wish' about?
AWhen three punks kill his wife and rape his daughter, New York development engineer (architect) Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is given an assignment in Tucson, Arizona so that he can unwind and get a taste of new scenery. While there, Paul sees a mock gunfight at an Old West show in a reconstructed frontier town used as a movie set. His client, gun enthusiast Ames Jainchill (Stuart Margolin), takes him to a gun club and is duly impressed when Paul hits the bulls-eye on his first shot. When it comes time for Paul to return to NY, Ames slips him a little going-away present, a nickel-plated .32 Colt Police Positive revolver. Inspired by the vigilante justice he witnessed at the Old West show, Paul takes to the streets with his gun to do the job that the NY police aren't doing, much to the public's delight that someone is finally taking a stand against crime. Meanwhile, NYPD Lieutenant Frank Ochoa (Vincent Gardenia) tries to find the man who is doing the police department's job for them.
QWhat are the differences between the British BBFC 18 VHS by Paramount and the Uncensored Version?
AIn 2000, Paramount released a VHS in the UK which missed out on roughly 30 seconds of footage. The scenes which were cut out included sequences of Carol being abused. All later VHS versions as well as all later DVD releases in the UK are uncensored. A detailed comparison between both versions with pictures can be found here.
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