Point Blank
by John Boorman
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Actor: Angie Dickinson, Carroll O'Connor, Keenan Wynn, Lee Marvin, Lloyd BochnerDirector: John Boorman
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Philip H. Lathrop
Producer: Judd Bernard
Producer: Robert Chartoff
Writer: Alexander Jacobs
Writer: David Newhouse
Writer: Donald E. Westlake
Writer: Rafe Newhouse
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Point Blank
Movie Review: The Great Boorman and Marvin at Their Best
Summary: 5 Stars
Point Blank is a hard-edged existential classic reflecting the talents of two very intelligent creative artists: John Boorman and Lee Marvin. It is amazing that a major studio like MGM allowed such a hard-boiled and somewhat challenging story presentation without the usual meddling for commercialism and political correctness (though the term PC hadn't been invented in 1967). A perfect meshing of style, plot, acting. Ex-USMC leatherneck Marvin is the real deal. Angie Dickinson is still at her prime and you can see why Jack and Bobby Kennedy, among notable others, had the hots for her. Influential and worth repeated viewings.
Summary of Point Blank
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/26/2006 Run time: 92 minutes Rating: NrWalker (Lee Marvin) strides through Los Angeles with the steel-eyed stare of a stone-cold killer, or perhaps a ghost. Betrayed by his wife and best friend, who gun him down point-blank and leave him for dead after a successful heist, Walker blasts his way up the criminal food chain in a quest for revenge. Did he survive the shooting or return from the grave, or is it all a dying dream? The question is left in the air in John Boorman's modern film noir, a brutal revenge thriller based on Richard Stark's novel The Hunter (remade by Brian Helgeland as Payback), set in the impersonal concrete and steel canyons of Los Angeles and eerily empty cells of Alcatraz. Walker kills without remorse, guided by shadowy "informant" Keenan Wynn, whose own agenda is carefully concealed, and assisted by Angie Dickinson, as he desperately searches for someone, anyone, who can just give him his money. But if Walker is an extreme incarnation of the revenge-driven noir antihero, the modern syndicate has been transformed into a world of paper jungles and corporate businessmen, an alienating concept to the two-fisted, gun-wielding gangster. Boorman creates a hard, austere look for the film and fragments the story with flashes of painful memory, grafting the New Wave onto old genres with confidence and style. Haunting and brutal, Point Blank remains one of the most distinctive crime thrillers ever made. --Sean Axmaker
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