Point Blank (1967)
Directed by John Boorman
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
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Making his first film in the U.S. at the encouragement of his friend Marvin, Boorman combined the look and attitude of a European art movie (Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless and Alphaville are two antecedents) with good old-fashioned American brutality.
Making his first film in the U.S. at the encouragement of his friend Marvin, Boorman combined the look and attitude of a European art movie (Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless and Alphaville are two antecedents) with good old-fashioned American brutality.
One of Lee Marvin's initial claims to fame was disfiguring Gloria Grahame's face with a pot of scalding coffee in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat, but even for cinema's quintessential thug, there was something more terrifyingly callous about his performance in John Boorman's seminal 1967 neo-noir Point Blank.
Boorman returned tothe crime genre in 1998 with the superb The General , but Point Blankremains arguably his best film.