St. Ives

In the 1990s we had Steven Seagal movies. We had been prepared for that thanks to 1980s Chuck Norris movies. In the 1970s, often regarded as the Golden Age of cinema, we had Charles Bronson movies. Such films—action-oriented thrillers relying solely on the charisma of their lead—were that period’s equivalent of the straight-to-video films of today. They were low budget but made with solid craftsmanship and, unfortun…