Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	J. Lee Thompson
Screenplay by	Gail Morgan Hickman
Based on	Characters by Brian Garfield
Produced by	Pancho Kohner
Starring	Charles Bronson Kay Lenz John P. Ryan Perry Lopez Soon-Tek Oh George Dickerson
Cinematography	Gideon Porath
Edited by	Peter Lee-Thompson
Music by	John Bisharat Paul McCallum Valentine McCallum
Production company	The Cannon Group, Inc.
Distributed by	Cannon Film Distributors
Release date	November 6, 1987 (1987-11-06) (U.S.)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$5 million
Box office	$6.9 million[1]

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown is a 1987 American vigilante action-thriller film, and the fourth installment in the Death Wish film series. The film was directed by J. Lee Thompson, and features Charles Bronson, who reprises his leading role as Paul Kersey. In the film, Kersey is once again forced to become a vigilante after his girlfriend's daughter dies of a drug overdose. He is recruited by a tabloid owner, Nathan White (John P. Ryan) to take down various crime figures of the Los Angeles drug trade.

Michael Winner, who directed the first three films in the series, was replaced by J. Lee Thompson. Death Wish 4: The Crackdown had a substantially lower budget and a more limited release than its predecessors. It was released in North America on November 6, 1987. The Bollywood film Mohra is an unofficial remake of the film. The film marks the seventh collaboration between Bronson and director J. Lee Thompson, following 1976's St. Ives, 1977's The White Buffalo, 1980's Caboblanco, 1983's 10 to Midnight, 1984's The Evil That Men Do, and 1986's Murphy's Law.