Great movie... Huge fan of Charles Bronson and Al Lettieri. Such a shame Al died at only 47, he was a great actor. Lee Purcell is one beautiful lady and talented.
Grew up in Southeastern Colorado,still live there. My daughter and grandkids live in LaJunta. Always think of that movie every time I drive down Main Street in LaJunta where the shootout scene happened.
How the hell does Lee Purcell still look so amazing? Seriously, she looks like she’s in her 30’s maybe 40 at most. What the hell am I doing wrong? Someone better ask her where the fountain of youth is hidden at.
A good insight into a terrific action film. Probably my favourite Charles Bronson film. Al Letteiri was brilliant too, he was also an accomplished screen writer. Thanks Lee for your memories.
I remember going to see this at my local theater when it came out. I loved it then and still watch it at least once a year. Lee and the whole cast were great. I was a huge Bronson fan. I can understand why people still love this movie.
@@bronson1392 Good question. My money says several were used. You don't do stuff like that to a vehicle and expect it to survive. The ball joints, the oil pan, tires, etc., none of it would have survived that kind of abuse. For that truck to just keep running as it did is just pure Hollywood. Some other examples are Bandit's TransAm in "Smokey and the Bandit," They went through several TransAms during shooting. The scene where they jumped the river totaled that particular TransAm. And in Disney's "The Love Bug," the producers went thru something like 21 VW Beetles due to what they put those cars through.
Great interview. I watch a lot of detective show from the 70's and I see Lee Purcell all the time. She was very pretty and really fun to watch in these shows. I am so glad she told the nice story about Charles Bronson protecting her. He was a mystery to a lot of people and I think they misunderstood him. He was a quiet man who liked to keep to himself. He loved his wife and family.
I think the location, combined with the cast and plot, is so unique. That is why it lives on and is remembered. A SE Colorado melon farmer singlehandedly getting the best of the mob. Growing up in western Kansas, we went through there all the time going to Colorado. I saw all those locations and thought “I know exactly where that is “.
Great film. My mom would drop my brother and me off at the Brookhurst theater in Anaheim on Saturdays and this was one of those, we saw anything Bronson was in. Lee Purcell shared the screen with two of the most macho actors of the time and was great, sorry but I'll always think of her as Peggy Gordon, Big Wednesday ✌️
Wonderful to hear this inside experience into the making of this excellent movie. Love hearing the Bronson background. Lee is more beautiful than ever. Thank you for posting.
You are a wonderful actress, and the first time i saw you was in Mr. Majestic. I never knew who you were until the internet came out, now that i know who you are i appreciate you more as an accomplished actress!
One of the best things about making movies is the many people that you meet and get to know. Plus your getting to know each other while your job is to play and pretend. After finishing a show that we rehearsed fir a few months when it was finished I realized how much joy I had working with a certain person and an emptiness stayed with me fir a while because I missed the joy of being with them.
I was in HS when it came out and saw it with my dad. Ford used footage from the movie for a Ford truck commercial you can still see on TH-cam. My fav Bronson film right after The Great Escape. Lee was and still is so hot.
I worked at Dick Clark Productions in 1999-2002 Never got to meet Lee. I just love her! Especially original Hawaii 5-0 with Jack Lord. She's fantastic! Hope she sees my "best wishes" here!!! Hugs from Florida
Thanks Lee l am from Australia was born in 1960,l love 60s 70s music and movie, and Majestic was great thanks for your tale ,the cast was great all of you and yes sad about Al would have been great to meet a character like him😊Thanks again!!
Love Lee Purcell. Bronson was terrific. Ex Vietnam Vet. Silver Star. Smart. Working man. Not racist. Summary justiceer. Great action. Love the Ford F-150 blast. RIP Charles Bronson.
I have always been a Bronson fan, but this has always been my favorite. Why? Because Al Letteiri did a great job as a villain and because the movie portrays a simple farmer who stands up to criminal corruption and wins....It is just a very simple movie but marvelously effective such that 50 years later we are still talking about it.
Just saw her on A Word on Westerns today. She doesn't seem to age. I had a personal experience with Bronson at his Malibu home in the early 80's. I was a tradesman and he was rude and threatening. Jill Ireland was there and she was truly wonderful and kind to me. Quite the contrast in personalities.
She did a lot with that role. It was interesting to hear behind the scenes and her thoughts. Mr Majestyk is such a simple movie, but I always really liked it. I always thought it was based on an Elmore Leonard book, I didn't know the movie came first.
Lee Purcell is probably one of the only Hollywood actors besides my CHEERS family that I like. She was really good in MR. MAJESTYK. I liked her in ADAM AT 6AM, STAND UP AND BE COUNTED, & SUMMER OF FEAR as well. Too bad she was only big in movies in the 70s and early 80s. Very pretty woman.
Blame digital photography! Movies don’t be using film no more instead opting for that disgusting cheapo digital look so even great movies with great writing and acting (which exist still) are rendered lifeless but again, not for lack of talent or passion relative to the 70s or whenever. Its the aesthetic turnouts that are the problem, which can and do trick you into thinking the whole artforms gone rotten, indeed. Might as well be with such soulless visuals.
Lee Purcel has a exquisite feminine beauty and I would like to see her in more Charles Bronson films like Once Upon a time in the West were she may had made an excellent couple
Actually I liked her the least out of all the characters...however I have come to respect her and her role.alas she's the only survivor of the film...much respect.
Sure is interesting hearing her talk about Bronson and Lettieri as likeable professionals and gentlemen. Quite a contrast with what you hear from men who worked with them. Lee was unforgettable in Mr Majestyk.
In the 1970s, Charles Bronson could do almost no wrong. "Breakheart Pass" (my favorite of his movies), "Mr. Majestyk," "The White Buffalo," "Telefon," "Hard Times," "The Mechanic," and (ugg) "Death Wish." Bronson reportedly turned down the Robert Shaw role in "Jaws" because Universal would not meet his salary demands. Back then, you could make a Bronson movie with a $2 million budget with $1 million going to Bronson's salary and the movie tax laws then in effect guaranteeing a profit. Bronson almost certainly had approval of his co-stars and Lee Pucell's impassive features in the movie made her a dead ringer for actress Jane Greer in "Out Of The Past." Now, of all the major Hollywood talent in "Mr. Majestyk," it seems only Lee Purcell is left with memories of the tough Colorado shoot, with the 2023 passing of producer Walter Mirisch.
Like Mitchum Bronson had a big heart and just kept to himself most of the time because he wasn’t trying to perform for anybody like most feel they have to. So being the tough guy that he is others might take this as a bully but if he was skinny then they would just say he’s shy.
Oh if these people could hear themselves.... Whining about the drive to the ranch house along a dirt road... and then they've got to get cleaned up... If that's the toughest thing you have to do in life...
Al had a heart attack in Italy, and I think they were a long ways from an actual hospital or doctor. The delay killed him, similar to how Robert Shaw/Fisherman Quint from Jaws died in Great Britain a few years after Jaws.
21:3824:16 I can't get over how thin Lee was in this movie. I know she was a dancer, but she honestly looks malnourished here. 22:57 Next to Linda Cristal you really notice how slim she was. I like Lee a lot, she's great in everything I've seen her in & I don't fault her for wanting to be thin. Many, many film actors still to this day stay slim, it goes with looking young, I guess.
I would bet that Paul Koslo was the one that ripped on her, that Charles stepped in and read the riot act. Why do I think this? Just due to his (Koslo) not being mentioned by her. Combine that with how Koslo felt about Bronson, I would bet it is a good chance I am right. If I am wrong? Oh well.
Koslo comes across as a not particularly deep fellow. There's an interview of him somewhere where his big anecdote about working with Robert Duvall is that Duvall once farted on the set.
The real lure of the film is a regular American man gratefully living his American life tho had seen and been tried in the horrors of war when a young man in Korea...! Then some lowlife criminal crashes into his life expecting Mr. Nice guy Farmer Guy to kiss his ass in fear which forcès the full capability's of Mr. Nice guy American to rise to a level that the Criminal Gangster bad guy never saw possible to his sorry no good self...lol FOR HE REALLY PICKED ON THE WRONG GUY HERE And Charles Bronson really really is that guy not an act...!
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Man she was a beautiful young women, and great actress
She's still pretty cute now to an old man like me.
@@vampirejesus2800she’s cute to a 30 year old like myself lmao!
Still is. Great structure. Beautiful person. Love her independent ways.
WOMAN.
I've always been a huge fan of Lee Purcell. She's a wonderful actress.
Truly, one of Bronson's best flicks with a great cast including Lee Purcell, Al Lettieri, Paul Koslo and Linda Cristal. A must-see.
Great movie... Huge fan of Charles Bronson and Al Lettieri. Such a shame Al died at only 47, he was a great actor. Lee Purcell is one beautiful lady and talented.
Grew up in Southeastern Colorado,still live there. My daughter and grandkids live in LaJunta. Always think of that movie every time I drive down Main Street in LaJunta where the shootout scene happened.
How the hell does Lee Purcell still look so amazing? Seriously, she looks like she’s in her 30’s maybe 40 at most. What the hell am I doing wrong? Someone better ask her where the fountain of youth is hidden at.
took the words right outta my mouth and she's 75 a goddamn gilf! unbelievable. She's so hot n sexy. But Lynda Carter still looks good too btw.
She's 75 which seems ridiculous! She looks 30 years younger.
It was shot in 2015, as per the credits at the end.
Deep natural beauty.
Plastic surgery, Zatoichi.
A good insight into a terrific action film. Probably my favourite Charles Bronson film. Al Letteiri was brilliant too, he was also an accomplished screen writer. Thanks Lee for your memories.
Al Letieri was a superb scriptwriter and actor.
I remember going to see this at my local theater when it came out. I loved it then and still watch it at least once a year. Lee and the whole cast were great. I was a huge Bronson fan. I can understand why people still love this movie.
❤ Lee Purcell. The thing for me was the 1968 Ford pickup blasting through the the foothills. The stunt driver should have been awarded an Oscar.
I’ve always wondered if that was the same pick up truck or several used.
@@bronson1392 Good question. My money says several were used. You don't do stuff like that to a vehicle and expect it to survive. The ball joints, the oil pan, tires, etc., none of it would have survived that kind of abuse. For that truck to just keep running as it did is just pure Hollywood. Some other examples are Bandit's TransAm in "Smokey and the Bandit," They went through several TransAms during shooting. The scene where they jumped the river totaled that particular TransAm. And in Disney's "The Love Bug," the producers went thru something like 21 VW Beetles due to what they put those cars through.
@@ApartmentKing66those Ford's had twin I-beam suspension with kingpins no ball joints used
Great interview. I watch a lot of detective show from the 70's and I see Lee Purcell all the time. She was very pretty and really fun to watch in these shows. I am so glad she told the nice story about Charles Bronson protecting her. He was a mystery to a lot of people and I think they misunderstood him. He was a quiet man who liked to keep to himself. He loved his wife and family.
I think the location, combined with the cast and plot, is so unique. That is why it lives on and is remembered. A SE Colorado melon farmer singlehandedly getting the best of the mob. Growing up in western Kansas, we went through there all the time going to Colorado. I saw all those locations and thought “I know exactly where that is “.
Great film. My mom would drop my brother and me off at the Brookhurst theater in Anaheim on Saturdays and this was one of those, we saw anything Bronson was in. Lee Purcell shared the screen with two of the most macho actors of the time and was great, sorry but I'll always think of her as Peggy Gordon, Big Wednesday ✌️
Wonderful to hear this inside experience into the making of this excellent movie. Love hearing the Bronson background. Lee is more beautiful than ever. Thank you for posting.
Great interview, such a treat to see her after all these years.
One of my most favorite, if not my favorite, Charles Bronson films. When was this video interview shot. Lee Purcell looks so young still. Amazing.
I couldn't fall in love with her
@@thomassergeant2217 that's ok , she thinks the Same of u
I COULD
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It was shot in 2015, as per the credits at the end.
You are a wonderful actress, and the first time i saw you was in Mr. Majestic. I never knew who you were until the internet came out, now that i know who you are i appreciate you more as an accomplished actress!
Had a crush on her back then. Still do. At 64 yrs old.
It's Solorzo from Godfather. Lee Purcell looked so beautiful in that movie.
One of the best things about making movies is the many people that you meet and get to know. Plus your getting to know each other while your job is to play and pretend. After finishing a show that we rehearsed fir a few months when it was finished I realized how much joy I had working with a certain person and an emptiness stayed with me fir a while because I missed the joy of being with them.
I was in HS when it came out and saw it with my dad. Ford used footage from the movie for a Ford truck commercial you can still see on TH-cam. My fav Bronson film right after The Great Escape. Lee was and still is so hot.
Great behind the scenes stuff. She’s still hot too.
I worked at Dick Clark Productions in 1999-2002 Never got to meet Lee. I just love her! Especially original Hawaii 5-0 with Jack Lord. She's fantastic! Hope she sees my "best wishes" here!!! Hugs from Florida
Thanks Lee l am from Australia was born in 1960,l love 60s 70s music and movie, and Majestic was great thanks for your tale ,the cast was great all of you and yes sad about Al would have been great to meet a character like him😊Thanks again!!
I would have liked to hear her remarks about German- Canadian actor Paul Koslo, a fine actor himself in other classic films like "Vanishing Point".
Love Lee Purcell. Bronson was terrific. Ex Vietnam Vet. Silver Star. Smart. Working man. Not racist. Summary justiceer. Great action. Love the Ford F-150 blast. RIP Charles Bronson.
Thanks
check your facts, Bronson served in WWII, no silver star . Why bullshit in this day and age, it's soooo easy to fact check
Still pretty ;I love her stories about the great Bronson.
She is a stunner! I was 5 when this film came out.
She has to be in her mid 70s and looks stunning!
I thought I saw 2012 on the video, so she was probably 62. Looks terrific!
She starred with amazing actors!
Lee Purcell is a very nice person.
What an articulate, lovely woman.
Melons is what makes this movie great
I have always been a Bronson fan, but this has always been my favorite. Why? Because Al Letteiri did a great job as a villain and because the movie portrays a simple farmer who stands up to criminal corruption and wins....It is just a very simple movie but marvelously effective such that 50 years later we are still talking about it.
I didn't remember her. Bronson is the film. She's extremely fortunate.
She is the only living person from that whole movie.
I bet the Hispanic woman who was with Charlie is still alive.
@@bravobravoh1344 Linda Cristal died on June 27, 2020. RIP
@@edmund6392 Sad news.
Just saw her on A Word on Westerns today. She doesn't seem to age. I had a personal experience with Bronson at his Malibu home in the early 80's. I was a tradesman and he was rude and threatening. Jill Ireland was there and she was truly wonderful and kind to me. Quite the contrast in personalities.
Many people take advantage of wealthy actors thinking they're just rich, lucky and stupid with no clue-> which ain't X coal minor Bronson...!
Very interesting piece. Enjoyed it.
THE KEYS !!!
She did a lot with that role. It was interesting to hear behind the scenes and her thoughts. Mr Majestyk is such a simple movie, but I always really liked it. I always thought it was based on an Elmore Leonard book, I didn't know the movie came first.
She is the most beautiful woman in the movie !
Thanks!!
One of my favorite movies and loved all the characters
Does anyone see a resemblance between a young Lee Purcell and Molly Ringwald at a similar age? Lee has aged well.
Lee Purcell is probably one of the only Hollywood actors besides my CHEERS family that I like. She was really good in
MR. MAJESTYK. I liked her in ADAM AT 6AM, STAND UP AND BE COUNTED, & SUMMER OF FEAR as well.
Too bad she was only big in movies in the 70s and early 80s. Very pretty woman.
They don't make movies like this no more quality of movies of today is getting worse.
That is the understatement of the century.
Blame digital photography! Movies don’t be using film no more instead opting for that disgusting cheapo digital look so even great movies with great writing and acting (which exist still) are rendered lifeless but again, not for lack of talent or passion relative to the 70s or whenever. Its the aesthetic turnouts that are the problem, which can and do trick you into thinking the whole artforms gone rotten, indeed. Might as well be with such soulless visuals.
Lee Purcel has a exquisite feminine beauty and I would like to see her in more Charles Bronson films like Once Upon a time in the West were she may had made an excellent couple
Awesome film can watch it over and over !!!!
Actually I liked her the least out of all the characters...however I have come to respect her and her role.alas she's the only survivor of the film...much respect.
Great stuff ,great movie .
Just beautiful i think she found the fountain of youth.
Great this. She still looks terrific.
Sure is interesting hearing her talk about Bronson and Lettieri as likeable professionals and gentlemen. Quite a contrast with what you hear from men who worked with them. Lee was unforgettable in Mr Majestyk.
Nice to see a man stand up for a woman and do it without being violent.
Fleishcer / mirisch / Leonard / Bronson….you couldn’t do better. Mr. Majestyk is top 5 all time for me. What a cool interview with Lee.
I am a fan of the film. I always thought Lee P. did a really believable great job as Wiley.
In the 1970s, Charles Bronson could do almost no wrong. "Breakheart Pass" (my favorite of his movies), "Mr. Majestyk," "The White Buffalo," "Telefon," "Hard Times," "The Mechanic," and (ugg) "Death Wish." Bronson reportedly turned down the Robert Shaw role in "Jaws" because Universal would not meet his salary demands. Back then, you could make a Bronson movie with a $2 million budget with $1 million going to Bronson's salary and the movie tax laws then in effect guaranteeing a profit. Bronson almost certainly had approval of his co-stars and Lee Pucell's impassive features in the movie made her a dead ringer for actress Jane Greer in "Out Of The Past." Now, of all the major Hollywood talent in "Mr. Majestyk," it seems only Lee Purcell is left with memories of the tough Colorado shoot, with the 2023 passing of producer Walter Mirisch.
It's just a simple great action feature with a great cast !
The fact that Bronson was playing a watermelon farmer tickled the funny bone of many people
What year they film this interview in?
I think 2012.
@@3crowns21 How you come up with that year?
End credit reads copyright 2015 Fiction Factory
Still pretty after all these years
She is cool. She wanted to be an actor and knew it. Not second to anyone. She still looks young….I wondered where the Ranch House was (Don K)
Where was or is that ranch house? I heard it was near Canon city.
I loved Lee
Like Mitchum Bronson had a big heart and just kept to himself most of the time because he wasn’t trying to perform for anybody like most feel they have to. So being the tough guy that he is others might take this as a bully but if he was skinny then they would just say he’s shy.
Oh if these people could hear themselves.... Whining about the drive to the ranch house along a dirt road... and then they've got to get cleaned up... If that's the toughest thing you have to do in life...
That bad ass Ford made the movie.
So who was rude? And circumstances of Letteri death has always been a mystery to me.
Al had a heart attack in Italy, and I think they were a long ways from an actual hospital or doctor. The delay killed him, similar to how Robert Shaw/Fisherman Quint from Jaws died in Great Britain a few years after Jaws.
21:38 24:16 I can't get over how thin Lee was in this movie. I know she was a dancer, but she honestly looks malnourished here.
22:57 Next to Linda Cristal you really notice how slim she was.
I like Lee a lot, she's great in everything I've seen her in & I don't fault her for wanting to be thin. Many, many film actors still to this day stay slim, it goes with looking young, I guess.
I would bet that Paul Koslo was the one that ripped on her, that Charles stepped in and read the riot act. Why do I think this? Just due to his (Koslo) not being mentioned by her. Combine that with how Koslo felt about Bronson, I would bet it is a good chance I am right. If I am wrong? Oh well.
Koslo comes across as a not particularly deep fellow. There's an interview of him somewhere where his big anecdote about working with Robert Duvall is that Duvall once farted on the set.
"Vagaries"....I'm sold
Maybe it was a great film because you were in it!
She looked like Jane Fonda back in the Day's
Wonder who the guy was that upset her and was put straight by Charles Bronson .
Three dollars 💵 and .85 cents ???? 😂😂
i'm paul kersey.
Charlie’s Angels
The bible is carmela in Sopranos
Mr. Majestyk is a cult movie because Charles Bronson is majestic.
The real lure of the film is a regular American man gratefully living his American life tho had seen and been tried in the horrors of war when a young man in Korea...!
Then some lowlife criminal crashes into his life expecting Mr. Nice guy Farmer Guy to kiss his ass in fear which forcès the full capability's of Mr. Nice guy American to rise to a level that the Criminal Gangster bad guy never saw possible to his sorry no good self...lol
FOR HE REALLY PICKED ON THE WRONG GUY HERE
And Charles Bronson really really is that guy not an act...!