On this day in movie history - Death Wish (1974):

Death Wish

directed by Michael Winner,

written by Wendell Mayes,

based on the novel by Brian Garfield,

was released in the United States on July 24, 1974.
Music by Herbie Hancock.

Cast:

Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, William Redfield, Chris Gampel, Steven Keats, Stuart Margolin, Stephen Elliott, Fred J. Scollay, Kathleen Tolan, Jack Wallace, Robert Kya-Hill, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Logan, Gregory Rozakis, Christopher Guest, Hank Garrett, Helen Martin, Olympia Dukakis, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Edward Grover, Saul Rubinek, John Herzfeld, Eric Laneuville, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Sonia Manzano, Tom Hayden, Al Lewis, Billy Curtis, Paul Dooley, Robert Miano, William Bogert.

On this day in movie history – Cutter’s Way (1981):

Cutter’s Way,

aka Cutter and Bone,

directed by Ivan Passer,

written by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin,

based on the novel Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg,

was released in the United States on March 20, 1981.
Music by Jack Nitzsche.

Cast:
Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry, Stephen Elliott, Arthur Rosenberg, Nina van Pallandt, Patricia Donahue, Geraldine Baron, Katherine Pass, Francis X. McCarthy, George Planco, Jay Fletcher, George Dickerson, Jack Murdock, Essex Smith, Rod Gist, Leonard Lightfoot, Julia Duffy, Randall Hicks, Roy Hollis, Billy Drago, Caesar Cordova, Jonathan Terry, William Pelt, Ron Marcroft, Ted White, Tony Epper, Andy Epper, Chris Howell, H.P. Evetts, Ron Burke, Dan Pattarson, Fox Purtill, Paul Thomas, Mark Valenti.