Bonnie was an underrated beauty. I can see why Bronson came.
This is perhaps the best version we have seen, with quality better than DVD. It’s Blu-Ray size, but not really as crisp as the best Blu-Rays.
Bonnie Bedelia topless in the pilot film for Then Came Bronson (1969)
My #1 quest back in the day wayyy before the interwebs, Knew about this scene in the pilot for Then Came Bronson many years before caps appeared in Celebrity Sleuth and then, of course, the internet almost made it too easy to find screen nudity. ✔ Praise the lord! 🙏
Someone at MrSkin around 2001/2 said an uncut version had aired on TNT a Euro TV Station. And then a capped version appeared at a celeb site.
Here are the links
carry on …
A plot question for you cinephiles: what exactly was Bonnie’s character’s next move going to be before she noticed Bronson? Was she going to drown herself, or just take a refreshing dip in the ocean followed by a half-nude walk back up the beach?
I’ve seen this clip a bunch of times but never understood the context.
Apparently, she was a runaway bride who decided to go down to the beach to take off her wedding dress even though she didn’t have anything else to put on. Same old same old.
Thanks. So basically, there was no plan except nudity. Good plan.
Not only the best plan, but really the only plan, at least the only one worth consideration.
Definite Celebrity Sleuth classic, she was cute as hell
Bonnie is cute here, but she hit her peak about ten years later.
I have never seen “Then Came Bronson”. I have always found it baffling that Charles Bronson was not connected with it in any way. I have no idea why he wasn’t.
I have not watched the movie, but I saw a few episodes of the series. It was like Route 66 on a cycle. Michael Parks drove around aimlessly on his Harley-Davidson Sportster, stopping only to meddle in people’s lives, something he wasn’t that good at because he mumbled so much that nobody could figure out what he was talking about. Parks also sang the theme song about ridin’ down that long, lonesome highway. I suppose, consistent with the cliches of the time, he was looking for America. He never found it. Turns out it was just north of Tijuana.
Thank you for that summary. I think I enjoyed it more than I would the movie. Perhaps Michael Parks’s character was also been looking for himself? As I recall it, that too was popular at the time.
(It was a concept I was, and am, poorly equipped to grasp. But that says more about me than it does about the concept. It also says something about the prosperity of the Bronson’s time that people were able to pursue both it and the search for America.)
“Nobody expects a tattooed biker to be searching for America. That was our main quest. Wait – searching for America and oneself are our two main quests. Oh, and searching for the meaning of life!
Amongst our quests are such diverse elements as …
I’ll come in again.”
Thanks for the timely reminder of Bonnie B’s incredible natural sexiness. Why “timely”? Because those of us who are currently trying to watch the Apple+ remake of Scott Turow’s intense, steamy novel “Presumed Innocent” ask what on earth the casting director was thinking when the decision was made to give Bonnie’s role (of the protagonist’s wife) to the completely unsexy Ruth Negga?! An actress who genuinely projects a negative vibe. Bad enough that Greta Scacchi’s role as the hot lawyer who is the object of the main character’s obsession is given to a plain, forgettable Swedish actress. But the wife has to be desirable too — extremely so — for the plot to work, and I’m sorry but every time Negga is on screen the plot freezes over. I’d rather see the now-76-year old Bonnie Bedelia reprise her role than this.
I have not watched any of that series. I might have been tempted to, so thanks for saving me from that. I’ll let you shoulder alone the burden of that disappointment.