St Ives Poster Original Daybill 1976 Charles Bronson Jacqueline Bisset
Daybill Poster.St. Ives is a 1976 American crime thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset, and Maximilian Schell. The film was the first of nine collaborations between Bronson and director J. Lee Thompson. The storyline was as follows: Abner Procane hires Raymond St. Ives (Bronson), a crime reporter and ex-policeman, to return five ledgers stolen from his safe.St. Ives becomes embroiled in the task and the deaths of those involved in the theft. The ledgers are eventually returned minus four pages, and St. Ives is drawn into robbery to try and right the situation. The movie is notable for early film cameos by Michael Lerner, Jeff Goldblum and Robert Englund. Goldblum again portrayed a maniacal street punk, as he had earlier in Death Wish (1974).