Cold Sweat
(1970)
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Cold Sweat
(1970)
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| Charles Bronson | ... | ||
| Liv Ullmann | ... |
Fabienne Martin
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| James Mason | ... |
Captain Ross
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| Jill Ireland | ... |
Moira
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| Michel Constantin | ... |
Whitey
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| Luigi Pistilli | ... |
Fausto Gelardi
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Yannick Delulle | ... |
Michèle Martin
(as Yannick de Lulle)
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Paul Bonifas | ... |
The doctor
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Sabine Sun | ... |
The nurse
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Roger Mailles | ... |
A poker player
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Nathalie Varallo | ... |
Violet
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Remo Mosconi | ... |
Marius
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Dominique Crosland | ... |
The girl scout leader
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Jean Topart | ... |
Katanga
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Joe Martin, a quiet American, lives a quiet life in the South of France renting boats to tourists. He is happily married to Fabienne and has a twelve-year-old daughter named Michèle. But the quiet man has a past: ten years before, Joe (then Moran) had escaped with four other convicts, among whom the sadistic ex-mercenary Katanga. Seeing the latter brutally kill an M. P., Joe had abandoned his accomplices and left with the car. One night, Captain Ross, Katanga, Whitey and Fausto re-appear.. Written by Guy Bellinger
Yeah, it's a terrible euro-pudding bomb, and Terence Young never was much of a director, but it's also a film I saw when I was 12, where I discovered Bronson. As bad as the film (really !) is, CB is physically at his absolute best in it : thick moustache, black T-shirt, pumped-up muscles, he walks through "Cold sweat" with an incredible presence. Of course, his couple with Liv Ullmann is laughable, James Mason looks bored to death (he should be), Jill Ireland is pathetic as a hippie drug dealer (she did it again in "Assassination" years later). But as far as Bronson's mythology is concerned (in Europe, at least), "Cold sweat" meant something at the time. The first time he was publicized as a superstar. For fans only...