Point Blank
Summary:
Based on Donald E. Westlake's novel -The Hunter, John Boorman's gangster film hauntingly merges a generic revenge story with a European art cinema sensibility. In Alcatraz to divvy up the spoils from a robbery, thief Walker (Lee Marvin) is instead shot point blank by his double-crossing friend Mal Reese (John Vernon) and left to die while Reese takes off with Walker's wife ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Lee Marvin - (Walker)
Angie Dickinson - (Chris)
Keenan Wynn - (Fairfax)
Carroll O'Connor - (Brewster)
John Vernon - (Mal Reese)
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Review:
John Boorman's Point Blank was one of the most interesting and quietly influential films of late 1960s American cinema. Unashamedly violent, void of morality, and full of "European" experimentation, the film ignored the conventions of typical Hollywood crime thrillers. Compared to the stark grimness of typical crime movies, Point Blank was... Continue >>
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