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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.40:1, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
They double-crossed Walker, took his $93,000 cut of the heist and left him for dead, but they didn't finish the job. Big mistake. He - someday, somehow - is going to finish them. Lee Marvin is in full antihero mode as remorseless Walker, talking the talk and walking the walk in John Boorman's (Deliverance) edgy neo-noir classic filled with imaginative New Wave style, blunt dialogue and Walker's relentless quest that, one by one, smashes into the corporate pecking order of a crime group called the Organization. Angie Dickinson plays the accomplice who uses her seductive wiles to ensnare one of Walker's prey. "I want my 93 grand," Walker growls at him.
"A superb, psychedelic revenge thriller with Lee Marvin at his best." Jeffrey M. Anderson, San Francisco Examiner
"Fascinating, harsh gangster epic from Boorman" Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress
"...hits like a fat slug from the .38 Lee Marvin uses as an extension of his fist..." Newsweek
Editor's Note
Lee Marvin stars as the lethal Walker in director John Boorman's stunningly stylized daylight noir, POINT BLANK. Mal Reese (John Vernon), Walker's partner in crime, shoots him and leaves him for dead on desolate Alcatraz Island just after they've pulled off a huge heist. For good measure, Reese also makes off with Walker's perfidious wife, Lynne (Sharon Acker). A couple of years later, while touring Alcatraz, Walker is approached by a man named Yost (Keenan Wynn) who offers to help him get his cut of the take by leading him to Reese and Lynne in exchange for information about the mysterious organization that now includes the thief's ex-partner. Walker agrees. He first runs down Lynne in L.A. and says hello by burying a few rounds in her bed but leaves her unharmed. Long ago abandoned by Reese, she's disintegrating emotionally and attempts to babble an explanation of her actions to the indifferent Walker. With the help of Lynne's sister, Chris (Angie Dickinson), Walker gains access to Reese's seemingly impregnable penthouse apartment, and the former partners' reunion is less than blissful. One of the best thrillers of the 1960s, the film's deadpan amorality and fragmented Resnais-influenced narrative, echoed in the startling camera angles and obliquely gorgeous anamorphic compositions of high-testosterone specialist Philip Lathrop (THE CINCINNATI KID), make clear why POINT BLANK has slowly become one of the most influential noirs.
Plot Summary
A man shot and left for dead by his unfaithful wife and her mobster boyfriend exacts his revenge on them a few years later in this thriller directed by John Boorman.
| Features | Audio: English & French Dolby Digital Mono | | Director Commentary | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Vintage Featurettes The Rock Part 1 and The Rock Part 2 |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 9/26/2006 |
| Running Time: 92 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1967 | | Catalog ID: 67414 | | UPC: 00012569674141 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Total Film
"...[An] enigmatic and dreamlike work....Boorman makes brilliant use of his LA locations, filling the screen with starling, hallucinatory images..." -- 5 out of 5 Stars 06/01/2000 p.106USA Today
"...A cult film....In a class with BONNIE AND CLYDE..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars 02/12/1993 p.3D Entertainment Weekly
"[A] tightly coiled noir." 07/08/2005 p.53-56 Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
...as suspense thrillers go Point Blank is pretty good. It gets back into the groove of Holly - Roger Ebert
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