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Later, he meets a stranger, Yost (Keenan Wynn), who helps him form a plan for retribution against Reese and his ex-wife that will recover the money stolen from him. Miraculously, Walker survives and swims across San Francisco Bay to safety. Reese pulls a gun, shooting his soon-to-be-ex-partner at point-blank range, and as Walker loses consciousness, he learns the full extent of his duplicity – Reese has been having an affair with his wife, Lynne (Sharon Acker). Gangster Walker (Marvin) and his old friend Reese (the fabulously oleaginous John Vernon, in his debut picture) meet in a cell on a disused San Francisco prison island of Alcatraz (Point Blank was the first Hollywood film to shoot on location there since the federal prison closed in 1963), having stolen money from a rival outfit.
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The result is probably Boorman’s, and Marvin’s, greatest movie – a superb, shifting, Panavision Metrocolor noir.Įvocatively, Point Blank opens with a double-cross. In fact, before Point Blank’s release in 1967, the only notable movie of its type was Don Siegel’s remake/remodel of Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s short story The Killers (1964), also starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson, which refashioned the street hoods of Depression-era America with a chilling corporate identity.Įnglishman John Boorman’s innovative and atmospheric second movie – which seemingly came out of nowhere after his Swinging Sixties Dave Clark Five musical Catch Us If You Can – dragged the all-American crime film out of the black and white shadows of the 1940s and 1950s, straight into the searing, vivid daylight of 1967 pop-art LA.
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Ian Johnstone tells us why we should be going to see it.īy the early ‘60s the Hollywood gangster film cycle seemed to have come to an end. John Boorman’s stylish and era-defining classic is given a welcome rerelease at selected cinemas nationwide.