Trivia / Death Wish V: The Face of Death

• B-Team Sequel: Michael Winner was available to direct, but was never asked to do so. According to Winner, his lack of interest in directing Death Wish 4: The Crackdown may have led Menahem Golan to count him out.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget: $5 million. Gross: $1,702,394.
• California Doubling: Although the movie takes place in New York, it was shot entirely in Toronto.
• Fake American: As a result of being filmed in Toronto, many New Yorkers were actually played by Canadian actors.
• Franchise Killer: Between the subpar box office, the critical lashing, the financial difficulties at 21th Century Film Corporation (Menahem Golan's successor to his earlier The Cannon Group), and the sheer age of Charles Bronson (who was 73 at the time), it was pretty clear this was the end of the Death Wish series. It also served as a Creator Killer to 21th Century, which folded two years later.
• Hostility on the Set: Charles Bronson and producer Menahem Golan were not on speaking terms during the filming, only communicating by using director Allan A. Goldstein as an intermediary. Goldstein himself was uncertain of the reasons behind this adversarial relationship.
• Prop Recycling: The two-tone PT92 pistol from this movie is the exact same one used by Larry Drake in Darkman II: The Return of Durant, because both movies had the same armorer (John "Frenchie" Berger).
• Saved from Development Hell: Gail Morgan Hickman and J. Lee Thompson wrote the first screenplay to Death Wish V in the late 1980s. Menahem Golan decided it would be too expensive.
• What Could Have Been: Menahem Golan announced plans for Death Wish 6: The New Vigilante without Charles Bronson. However, the two had a falling-out and ended their working relationship. The film was never made.
• You Look Familiar: Saul Rubinek plays a District Attorney helping Paul Kersey. In Death Wish, he played a punk wearing a U.S. flag embossed motorcycle jacket who tried robbing Paul Kersey on a subway.

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