Vigilante

Unaware that his wife has been badly hurt and his son killed in a home invasion, Brooklyn mechanic Eddie (Robert Forster) asks associates (Joseph Carberry, Fred Williamson and Richard Bright as Burke) about why a cop questioned them earlier about an unexplained assault, in Vigilante, 1983.

Leave it to Fred Williamson (second-billed, as citizen “Nick”) and director Bill Lustig, the bracing opening of the 1983 low-budget revenge drama Vigilante, co-starring Robert Forster, in the role that inspired Quentin Tarantino to cast Forster in Jackie Brown, 1997.

Brooklyn mom Vickie (Rutanya Alda) intervenes as Rico (Willie Colon) and his gang bash a gas station owner, while her husband Eddie (Robert Forster) hits a bar with his buddies (Fred Williamson, Joseph Carberry, Richard Bright), whom we know run a citizen’s vengeance gang, in Vigilante, 1983.