The Mechanic

About The Mechanic

Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice.

Michael Winner's The Mechanic is a 1972 crime thriller film. Charles Bronson stars as Arthur Bishop, Jan-Michael Vincent as Steve McKenna, Keenan Wynn as Harry McKenna, and Jill Ireland as The Girl.

It runs 99 minutes and was released in October 1972. Written by Lewis John Carlino.

Shelv files it under anxious, biting, vindictive, and pessimistic. It streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads in the United States. It scores 6.7 out of 10 from 363 TMDB voters and it carries a PG rating.

Memories of Murder, Iron Lung, and The Burning Bed make useful companions to The Mechanic, all filed under assassin and dramatic.