MUGGED BY REALITY. Mark Steyn's tribute to Charles Bronson reflects on the rediscovery of civilization in New York City in the past thirty years. His vehicle is the 1974 Death Wish. Bronson as Danny ("I dig") in The Great Escape comes closer to the actor's real life. South Fork, Pennsylvania, is this place you roll past on the Pennsylvania Railroad, uphill from Johnstown to Gallitzin. It's a mining community, and the first settlement of size to be wiped out when the dam at the South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club failed in 1889.