DEATH WISH Directed by Michael Winner (Paramount)

I saw Death Wish in a movie house on Broadway and not in a chic studio screening room even though last Christmas a radio film critic laden with shopping bags filled with gifts left the Twentieth Century Fox screening room on Manhattan’s very west side and was set upon by a gang of mugger-junkierapist-street-lice toughs and hearly crippled and blinded. The gentleman spent his Christmas holiday as well as his New Year’s and his January in a hospital (average rate in New York City $105 a day).