Death Wish came out two years before this tv film was made and it made people think it was cool to be a vigilante taking the law into your own hands. Perhaps Revenge For A Rape is a cautionary tale for anyone thinking about following Charles Bronson's example. TV legend Mike Connors (Tightrope, Mannix) stars as Travis a likeable guy and a loving husband with a pretty (and much younger) wife. They arrive at a national park during hunting season and while he is away from their campsite she is raped by three "deliverance" like rednecks causing her to miscarry. Connors is enraged when the sheriff (played by Robert Reed) tells him the might get away. After his distraught wife points out three strangers in a crowd, Connors goes from nice guy to savage as he hunts them down through the woods killing them one by one (at one point he even does a Butch Cassidy like leap off a cliff) HOWEVER the three men he's chasing and killing are totally innocent. His wife identifies the three real culprits and in the end Connors is about to be arrested and go to prison for life. This is one of those few tv films that doesn't have a happy ending.
Review of Revenge for a Rape
