Point Blank (1967)
Genre: Action / Crime
Duration: 92 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: John Boorman
Stars: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson and Keenan Wynn
IMDb score:
7,3 (25.946)
Releasedate: 30 August 1967
Point Blank plot
"He thrived on two kinds of people... his victims and his women!"
When Walker tries to help his friend Reese, he is shot and left for dead. Reese also turns out to have run off with Walker's wife. In order to take revenge, Walker must penetrate a powerful crime organization.
Actors and actresses
Walker
Chris
Yost
Brewster
Frederick Carter
Stegman
Mal Reese
Lynne
Hired Gun
Waitress
Reviews & comments
IH88
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“Cell. Prison Cell. How did I get here?”
Great classic. John Boorman's unconventional direction in particular stands out, and it gives Point Blank a somewhat dreamy atmosphere. It is a revenge story and Boorman does not shy away from the hard scenes, but because of the direction it also has something artistic. And it's always interesting when a movie hits Alcatraz. Lee Marvin is on a roll as an avenging angel, but I do wonder what a Clint Eastwood or a Charles Bronson could have done with this kind of role. The other actors and actresses also do well, but the biggest compliments have to go to the direction and the beautifully chosen locations.
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Film Pegasus (moderator films)
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- 31191 messages
- 5473 votes
Bizarre revenge film that lies between the nouvelle vague of the 60s and a hard revenge film from the 60s/70s. Later (broadly speaking) made into a film as Payback with Mel Gibson, which is based on the same book. The story is not very special, but because of the rather different approach this is quite interesting. A film that radiates all the way from the 60s. Hard, colorful and a bit crazy. As a result, the film is better than it actually deserves.
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starbright boy (moderator films)
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- 22473 messages
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Very nice deconstruction-like gangster film with noir elements. A stripped-down fairly simple story where only the basics matter. Carefully chosen for the time modernist locations and surprisingly perverse for a studio film from 1967. Boorman very clearly had mainly non-American cinema as an influence. Lee Marvin plays the ultimate Lee Marvin role and Caroll "Archie Bunker" O'Connor steals the show towards the end of the film.
It is striking that Boorman (I only saw Deliverance before this) had such a volatile career and I wonder if the promise of this film was ever fully fulfilled by him.
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