death journey 1976

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D'Urville Martin

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Fred Williamson (Jesse Crowder) Bernie Kuby (Finley) Heidi Dobbs (Agent) Stephanie Faulkner (Girl in convertible) D'Urville Martin (Gas Station mechanic) Art Maier (District Att'y Virgil Riley) Lou Bedford (Assistant D.A. Jonas) Ed Kovins (Stern, the mouthpiece) Patrick McCullough (Jack Rosewald, gang leader) James B. Campbell (Judge)

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A D.A. tasks a private detective to safely transport a mob trial witness from L.A. to N.Y. but hired killers are after them.

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Directed by Fred Williamson

Fred Williamson is Jesse Crowder ... One mean cat!

Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. He buddies up with the witness, an accountant, and they hit the road. Outwitting their foes means taking all manner of conveyance, including automobile, train, and airplane.

Fred Williamson Bernard Kirby Art Maier Lou Bedford Heidi Dobbs Stephanie Faulkner Ed Kovins Patrick McCullough Emil Farkas Sam Coppola Geoffrey Land James B. Campbell

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Fred Williamson

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Gene Ruggiero

Cinematography Cinematography

Robert Caramico

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Tony Brubaker Terry Leonard Erik Cord

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Anthony Shinault

Po' Boy Productions

Alternative Titles

Jornada de muerte, Die Todesreise, 死亡旅程

Crime Drama Action

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01 may 1976, releases by country.

• Theatrical R

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Review by Mandrakegray ★★½

"I'm not going to kill you, baby...you're too good in the sack for that. I'm just going to bruise you up a little."

Ah, the worldview of Jesse Crowder (played by everyone's favorite badass , Fred "The Hammer" Williamson ) who then proceeds to throw said female off a fast-moving train (which is traveling at a rate of speed that no one would survive from)... "Happy Landings, Bitch."

Clearly, this minor Blaxploitation box office hit is far from subtle...unfortunately, its also a slog to get through. That's despite its low budget, DIY origins being elevated by the always watchable presence of Williamson. With a plot that plays like a dry run for 1988's excellent " Midnight Run ", former cop Crowder is hired to escort…

Review by {Todd} ★½

***This was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of writers and actors like those currently on strike, the movie being covered here wouldn't exist.***

"Sorry about this mess" - Jesse,

I love Fred Williamson so I really wanted to like this since he directed it but it's kind of a big mess. The direction is pretty basic, there is no one with an ounce of charisma in the film other than Williamson, the editing it preposterous, and the story is just so basic you kind of forget to keep track of what's happening.

Real stinker.

Review by Jeremy Milks ★★★½

Fred Williamson directs himself getting laid 4 times by 4 different women before this even hits the hour mark. That is what you call an "auteur" in the movie business, kids.

Review by Joe ★★★ 2

Fred Williamson's first outing as Jesse Crowder is also a literal outing - a cross-country trek from Los Angeles to New York taken in order to transport a mob accountant to where he can testify against his former boss. Along the way, the pair are dogged by the most incompetent assassins I've ever seen in a movie, seriously, no disrespect to Crowder intended but these guys couldn't kill an hour at the beach.

This may very well be a 3.5-star movie or even above, but the pan and scan transfer on Amazon Prime appears to have been ripped directly from a muddy VHS - I love airports, and train stations, and bus stations, and I don't want to blame Williamson…

Review by BrianNaas ★

"I hope you're a better fashion model than a hit lady". "What are you going to do with me. Please don't kill me". "I'm not going to kill you baby. You're too good in the sack for that. I am just going to bruise you up a little". And tosses her off the train. "Good landing bitch". A source I read said there was no dialogue in the script. It was all ad-libbed. I believe it. If films received IQ scores, this would fall into the Profound Mental Disability category. Or more scientifically, as dumb as rocks. I would have felt embarrassed for Fred Williamson except he directed and produced this nonsensical action dribble. Everything about it is terrible. The…

Review by Chuck Dowling ★★

Pretty much the start of Fred Williamson’s way too leisurely paced filmography. You’ll be yelling at the screen for him to do cool things and the response will be “Nah, you’re gonna watch me take karate lessons for 10 minutes.”

Review by VNPryor ★★

In this movie that somehow kicked off a minor franchise character, Fred Williamson plays a guy who is introduced to us getting his ass handed to him by his karate instructor. It's never stated in the movie itself, but the subtext is that he loses because he is wearing a shirt. After this scene he literally wears an open shirt (or is completely shirtless) for the rest of the movie, and he can't be defeated. Basically, he's Samson, but if his strength was in his chest hair.

Also, I'm starting to suspect that, like Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Williamson has certain tropes that he likes to put in all his work as a filmmaker. Only, instead of trains or wrongfully accused innocents, it's white girls who explode.

Everybody's got their something, I guess...

Review by Rutledal ★★★

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When reading that the film was about Fred protecting a witness I was imagining it would be some beautiful woman he’d also bang, but instead it’s some short bald fat guy. Good job subverting my expectations Fred.

Fred is supposed to bring the witness from LA to New York, but spends an hour of the film farting about in the California desert before just catching a plane to NY.

This feels as winging it as the rest of Fred’s early directing efforts, but compared to something like Mr Mean this is delightfully action packed and fun.

Review by Ed Küpfer ★★½

Fred Williamson plays a shirtless bodyguard who has to take a witness across the country to testify in a trial, all the while fighting off attacks by the goons sent by the defendant, who all look like members of the post-Brian Wilson Beach Boys. Williamson is not good at his job, both his character in the movie and director of this movie, but the movie is only 78-minutes long and there's still some fun to be had, like this clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpYm1yZ_gz4

Review by Muddguts

Death Journey is a repetitive journey. Open shirt Fred Williamson escorts the mob's ex-accountant from L.A. to NY. Every 5-6 minutes they are shot at or attacked by a carload of losers. Every 10 minutes Fred bangs a broad. Wash, rinse, repeat. Even the score is a repetitive mix of funk. Same bass beats and disco wacka-wacka over and over.

The audio commentary with "The Hammer" made the movie much more fun to watch the second time around. Fred's memory is excellent and he has a razor sharp sense of humour. I recommend you give it a listen if you haven't already

Review by Darkgod

Cult Movie Challenge - Week 6 - Blacksploitation Week

A decent action/crime movie from the 70s. Williamson is his usual bad ass self, kicking and punching his way across the country. Good storyline, good fights. A nice little revenge sub plot.

Entered Flickchart at 2105

Review by Garret Kriston ★★★½

Watched with hilarious commentary featuring Fred Williamson and Code Red DVD's Bill Olsen. R.I.P. to the latter, who mentions The Guy from Harlem at some point. Fred is really not interested in Bill's Midnight Run comparisons. He also is appalled by the idea of being even considered for I'm Gonna Git You Sucka , which would have apparently tarnished his image, as if the numerous starring vehicles that he produced and directed didn't do exactly that. He's like a slightly cooler Steven Seagal in some ways.

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Death Journey (1976)

Genre: crime, duration: 90 minuten, country: united states, directed by: fred williamson, stars: fred williamson , bernard kirby and art maier, imdb score: 4,7  (312), releasedate: 1 may 1976.

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"Fred Williamson is Jesse Crowder ... One mean cat!" Jesse Crowder must protect an accountant so he can testify against the mob. On their journey from Los Angeles to New York, Crowder has to deal with mafia-hired killers at every stop.

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DEATH JOURNEY (1976) Blu-ray Director: Fred Williamson Code Red Releasing

Shot back-to-back with Fred "The Hammer" Williamson's debuts MEAN JOHNNY BARROWS was the more conventional DEATH JOURNEY, getting an HD upgrade from Code Red Releasing.

Williamson chronicles the adventures of series character Jessie Crowder in DEATH JOURNEY in which the ex-cop is hired by District Attorney Virgil Frye (Art Maier) to transport accountant Finley (Bernard Kirby) across the country from Los Angeles to testify against his former boss Jack Rosewald (Patrick McCullough, MAGIC) after two other witnesses are assassinated. From the moment they hit the road just to get to the airport, the mismatched duo are targeted by hitmen (giving Crowder a chance to try out his martial arts training) and leaving a trail of bodies (as predicted by Frye's associate) in their wake. Suspecting that someone in Frye's camp must have leaked their travel plans, Crowder and an increasingly reluctant Finley race against the clock – when Crowder is not bedding down various women they meet along the way including comely motorist Alice (Alexis Tramunti) and a classy model (Stephanie Faulkner, HOWLING V: THE REBIRTH) – to make alternate travel plans. No matter what Crowder tries, Rosewald's men always seem to be one step ahead or seconds behind them.

Faster-paced than MEAN JOHNNY BARROWS but also seeming to given short shrift when it comes to planning and resources, DEATH JOURNEY stages its major setpieces quick and dirty in the bright, sunny outdoors in parking lots, outside gas stations, and in the desert, and with telephoto lenses in more people areas with sniper victims taking bloodless hits amidst believably bewildered passersby. The plotting is even more rudimentary and the casting and characterization even more sparse, making the film much more dependent on Williamson's screen charisma. The film does not wear out its welcome at just 78 minutes, but it is best enjoyed supporting another feature, be it MEAN JOHNNY BARROWS or one of the other Crowder films NO WAY BACK – the trailer of which appeared on some Code Red DVDs but has not been released – or the later BLIND RAGE and THE LAST FIGHT. Among the many "thugs" in the cast is stuntman George P. Wilbur (HALLOWEEN 4 and 5). Seen early on as Williamson's karate instructor is stuntman Emil Farkas (THE GOLDEN CHILD) who played a police officer in MEAN JOHNNY BARROWS and also appeared in the Blaxploitation pics DEATH DIMENSION and THAT MAN BOLT (with Williamson).

Released on panned-and-scanned VHS by Unicorn Home Video in a clamshell case reproducing the original poster art, this inferior transfers wound up in multi-film Blaxploitation packs from the likes of Brentwood and TGG Direct. Code Red's 2010 DVD edition restored the film in high definition from its original 35mm negatives in its original Panavision 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratios in an anamorphic transfer, restoring violence cut from the opening sequence. Code Red's 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen Blu-ray edition is derived from a brand new 2K scan of the same materials. DEATH JOURNEY is virtually unblemished save for a negative scratch in one of the restored bits of violence and the splice line dipping into the top of the frame in one or two shots, looking great on Blu-ray when taking into account the rough-and-ready shooting style of both films (with exteriors seeming ambitious and risky in MEAN JOHNNY BARROWS but economical in DEATH JOURNEY). The DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono track is in fine condition.

Williamson appears with Code Red's Bill Olsen on a commentary with a few dead spaces but also some interesting background information on the film. While he tried to pack as many names into MEAN JOHNNY BARROWS for as little money as possible, he tried in DEATH JOURNEY to shoot in as many locations for little money (the film was shot with a crew of five at its smallest with Williamson learning to do a number of tasks in lighting and sound). Olsen spends a lot of time pointing out films that ripped off elements of DEATH JOURNEY which Williamson takes in stride, but Olsen also touches upon the film's treatment by distributors at the bottom of double and triple bills and his inability to find even a newspaper ad mat for it. Olsen also suggests that a dissolve-heavy fireplace lovemaking scene might have been inspired by similar visuals in THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR but Williamson says he did it in order to obscure nudity.

Williamson does another on-camera interview (27:21) in which he spends only a portion speaking about DEATH JOURNEY and his strategy of raising money with foreign sales, shooting in several locations for such a low budget of $75,000 that the film could not possibly lose money, and the rest discussing his other films, including ADIOS AMIGO with an improvising Richard Pryor and a twelve-page script, the other Jesse Crowder films including BLIND RAGE shot in the Philippines, as well as the period he spent in Italy making films like the three Italian BLACK COBRA films (and his discovery that the producers were trying to sell BLACK COBRA IV intercutting recycled footage of him with a double who kept his back to the camera), as well as his collaborations with Larry Ludman (aka producer Fabrizio de Angelis) and Lucio Fulci. The disc also includes the film's theatrical trailer (2:06). The Blu-ray edition is limited and available directly from the Code Red Big Cartel . (Eric Cotenas)

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