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Point Blank (1967)

Directed by John Boorman

Crime

Most recently watched by lolareels, BTSjunkie, sleestakk

Overview

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.

Rated NR | Length 91 minutes

Actors

Lee Marvin | Angie Dickinson | Keenan Wynn | Carroll O'Connor | Lloyd Bochner | Michael Strong | John Vernon | Sharon Acker | James Sikking | Sandra Warner | Roberta Haynes | Kathleen Freeman | Victor Creatore | Lawrence Hauben | Susan Holloway | Sid Haig | Michael Bell | Priscilla Boyd | John McMurtry | Ron Walters | George Strattan | Nicole Rogell | Rico Cattani | Roland La Starza | Paul Bradley | George Bruggeman | George Calliga | Jerry Catron | Dick Cherney | Bud Cokes | Bonnie Dewberry | Richard Elmore | Barbara Feldon | Duke Fishman | Carey Foster | Stu Gardner | Rudy Germane | Kenneth Gibson | Bill Hickman | Chuck Hicks | George Hoagland | Harvey Karels | Joseph La Cava | Louise Lane | Karen Lee | Ethelreda Leopold | Philo McCullough | Joseph Mell | Monty O'Grady | Andrew Orapeza | Murray Pollack | Anthony Redondo | Leoda Richards | Clark Ross | Cosmo Sardo | Jeffrey Sayre | Felix Silla | Norman Stevans | Robert Strong | Tim Taylor | Sid Troy | Guy Way | Ted White | Louis Whitehill | Roseann Williams | John Zimeas

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Viewing Notes

Just an amazing film. The composition of shots is brilliant here, especially scenes that break the film plane and force you to acknowledge the film itself as an element in the movie. The window screen pattern in one shot is the most obvious example, as are the plethora of shots through glass and reflections, some of them reflections of reflections.

Color is also used to great effect.

This movie should be studied in film classes everywhere. A really nice piece of film making.

Lee Marvin is great, but Angie Dickenson is just gorgeous in this.

Based on the novel “The Hunter” by Donald E. Westlake (nee Richard Stark), one of my favorite pulp crime writers.

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