There are two kinds of people in his up-tight world: his victims and his women. And sometimes you can't tell them apart.
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
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Grave, bleak, meticulous and plot-driven.
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- warmbleak
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- John Chardon TMDB · Aug 20159/10
You're a very bad man, Walker, a very destructive man! Point Blank is directed by John Boorman and collectively adapted to screenplay by Alexander Jacobs, David Newhouse and Rafe Newhouse from the novel The Hunter written by Richard Stark. It stars Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Lloyd Bochner and Michael Strong. Music is by Johnny Mandel and the Panavision cinematography (in Metrocolor) is by Philip H. Lathrop. Betrayed by wife and friend during a robbery, Walker (Marvin) is left dying on a stone cold cell floor at closed down Alcatraz... Pure neo-noir, a film that could be argued was ahead of its time, given that it wouldn't find a fan base until many years later. Yet it deserves to be bracketed as a benchmark for the second phase of noir, a shining light of the neo world, experimenting with techniques whilst beating a true film noir heart. The story is deliciously biting, pumped full of betrayals and double crosses, fatales and revenge, death and destruction. It even has a trick in the tale, ambiguity. It all plays out in a boldly coloured Los Angeles, the photography sparkles as Mandel lays an elegiacal and haunting musical score over the various sta
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Cast
- Lee MarvinWalker
- Angie DickinsonChris
- John VernonMal Reese
- Keenan WynnYost
- Carroll O'ConnorBrewster
- Lloyd BochnerFrederick Carter
- Michael StrongStegman
- Sharon AckerLynne
- James B. SikkingHired Gun
- Sandra WarnerWaitress
Crew
- John BoormanDirector
- Alexander JacobsScreenplay
- Rafe NewhouseScreenplay
- David NewhouseScreenplay
- Donald E. WestlakeNovel
- Philip H. LathropDirector of Photography
- Johnny MandelOriginal Music Composer
- Henry BermanEditor
- Judd BernardProducer
- Irwin WinklerProducer
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