![]() ![]() Walker hears noises from the kitchen and goes in to turn off several appliances which Chris has apparently turned on. While waiting for Brewster, Chris slaps and punches Walker as he regards her impassively, not defending himself. He brings her with him to Brewster's house, claiming she will be safer with him. Walker visits Chris in her apartment, which has been trashed by The Organization. Yost takes Walker to a house belonging to Brewster. The sniper leaves Walker tears open the package of money, but finds only slips of blank paper. Carter and Stegman both get shot at the pickup. Walker, suspecting a trap, forces Carter to get the money instead. A sniper is assigned to kill him at a money-drop in the paved Los Angeles River bed. Walker, still grasping the bedsheet, watches him fall.Īfter next confronting Carter for his money, Walker is set up. Forced to back up himself, Reese accidentally goes over the side and plunges to his death. Startled, Walker backs up quickly still holding on to Reese behind him by the bedsheet. Suddenly, a bodyguard switches on the light in the room they just left, calling for Reese. He then forces the naked, bedsheet covered, Reese to the balcony saying that both will go and meet Carter together. With a gun to Reese's head, Walker persuades him to give up the names of his Organization superiors – Carter, Brewster, and Fairfax – so he can make somebody pay back his $93,000. Walker ties up some men in an apartment across from the penthouse and has a call made to police to report a robbery, creating a diversion that enables him to slip into the penthouse. Willing to help in any way, Chris agrees to a sexual tryst with Reese inside his heavily guarded penthouse apartment where she will unbolt a door for Walker. Walker approaches car dealer Stegman for information, smashing a new car and terrorizing him until Stegman says Reese is with Walker's sister-in-law, Chris.īreaking in on Chris, he learns that she despises Reese and admires Walker. ![]() Lynne is distraught she takes an overdose of sleeping pills. Reese used all of the money from the job to pay back a debt to a crime syndicate called "The Organization." Walker goes to Los Angeles where he bursts in on Lynne and riddles her bed with bullets, only to find Reese has long since disappeared. With assistance from the mysterious Yost, Walker sets out to find Reese and recover his half of the robbery: $93,000. Reese takes the money and Walker's wife, Lynne. After counting the money, Reese shoots Walker, leaving him for dead. Walker works with his friend Mal Reese to rob a major crime operation, ambushing the courier on deserted Alcatraz Island. In 2016, Point Blank was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry. ![]() The film was not a box-office success in 1967, but has since gone on to become a cult classic, eliciting praise from such critics as film historian David Thomson. Boorman directed the film at Marvin's request and Marvin played a central role in the film's development. Point Blank is a 1967 American crime film directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin, co-starring Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll O'Connor, and adapted from the 1963 crime noir pulp novel The Hunter by Donald E.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |