Messenger of Death
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Genre: Thriller, Action/Adventure, Action, Mystery, Action Thrillers
Year: 1988
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Marilyn Hassett, John Ireland, Penny Peyser, Charles Dierkop, Charles Bronson, Laurence Luckinbill, Daniel Benzali, Jeff Corey, Trish Van Devere
Messenger of Death is a 1988 film starring Charles Bronson about an attempt by a water company to start a family feud among fundamentalist Mormons to take the family's land for the company.
This was one of the final films in the long career of J. Lee Thompson, director of such well-known pictures as The Guns of Navarone and Cape Fear.
Children play outside a rural Colorado home. They belong to Orville Beecham (Charles Dierkop) and his three wives. Two masked men pull up in a truck and wait for the children to go inside. They proceed to kill the three mothers, who are sister wives, and then the kids. The police arrive before the father, Orville, who returns to find his family massacred.
Arriving on the scene with the chief of police, Barney Doyle (Daniel Benzali) is a Denver newspaper reporter, Garret Smith (Charles Bronson). They were having lunch with a wealthy local businessman, Homer Foxx (Laurence Luckinbill), to discuss how to get Barney elected mayor when Barney was called about the murders.
Garret does a news story on the massacre. Orville in a local jail, there "for his own protection." Orville is reluctant to talk to Garret but does reveal that his father, Willis Beecham
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