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Point Blank (1967)
Director: John Boorman
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
One of the definitive films to emerge from Hollywood in the late '60s, this hard-nosed adaptation of Richard Stark's The Hunter owed much to the European influences that Boorman brought with him from England. People have noted the influence of Resnais behind the film's time lapses and possible dream setting, but Godard's Alphaville offers a more rewarding comparison. Both films use the gangster/thriller framework to explore the increasing depersonalisation of living in a mechanised urban world. Just as Constantine's Lemmy Caution was a figure from the past stranded in a futuristic setting, so Marvin's bullet-headed gangster is an anachronism from the '50s transported to San Francisco and LA of the '60s, a world of concrete slabs and menacing vertical lines. Double-crossed and left to die, Marvin comes back from the dead to claim his share of the money from the Organization, only to become increasingly puzzled and frustrated when he finds there is no money, because the Organization is the world of big business run by respectable men with wallets full of credit cards.Author: CPe
Cast & crew
Director: John Boorman
Producer: Judd Bernard, Robert Chartoff
Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Lloyd Bochner, Michael Strong, John Vernon, Sharon Acker, James B Sikking full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 92 mins
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