Point Blank [Blu-ray]

Director: John Boorman

Overview

In this film, Lee Marvin and John Vernon have just swiped a large amount of mob money. As they sit down to divvy up the loot, Vernon pulls out a gun and shoots Marvin. Left for dead, Marvin manages to recover sufficiently to seek revenge.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/08/2014
UPC:	0883929409259
Original Release:	1967
Rating:	NR
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:32:00
Sales rank:	1,356

Special Features

Commentary by director John Boorman and filmmaker Steven Soderbergh; Vintage featurettes The Rock Part 1 and The Rock Part 2; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Lee Marvin	Walker
Angie Dickinson	Chris
Keenan Wynn	Yost
Carroll O'Connor	Brewster
Lloyd Bochner	Frederick Carter
Michael Strong	Stegman
John Vernon	Mal Reese
Sharon Acker	Lynne
James B. Sikking	Hired Gun
Sandra Warner	Waitress
Roberta Haynes	Mrs. Carter
Kathleen Freeman	1st Citizen
Victor Creatore	Carter's Man
Lawrence Hauben	Car Salesman
Susan Holloway	Customer
Sid Haig	Guard
Michael Patrick Bell	Penthouse Lobby Guard
Priscilla Boyd	Receptionist
Ron Walters	Roommates
Rico Cattani	Guard
Carey Foster	Dancer
Lou Whitehill	Policeman
Joseph Mell	Man
Ted White	Football Player
Bill Hickman	Guard
Chuck Hicks	Guard
Felix Silla	Bellhop

Technical Credits

Alexander Jacobs

David Newhouse

Alexander Jacobs	Screenwriter
David Newhouse	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Judd Bernard	Producer
Robert Chartoff	Producer
J. McMillan Johnson	Special Effects
Virgil Beck	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

John Boorman's Point Blank was one of the most interesting and quietly influential films of late 1960s American cinema. Unashamedly violent, void of morality, and full of "European" experimentation, the film ignored the conventions of typical Hollywood crime thrillers. Compared to the stark grimness of typical crime movies, Point Blank was downright phantasmagoric in its narrative structure, camera placement, color schemes, and sounds. Released just three weeks after the similarly revolutionary Bonnie and Clyde, the film was not an immediate hit with audiences; even though star Lee Marvin was coming off the successful The Dirty Dozen, the film got swept up in the "violence-in-movies" controversy. Where Warren Beatty's Clyde and Faye Dunaway's Bonnie were sympathetic and glamorous, Marvin seemed capable of "bashing somebody's brains out," to paraphrase his famous line from The Dirty Dozen. But the actor's icy menace and Boorman's artistic pretensions have gone on to influence filmmakers to come, most notably Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, and Quentin Tarantino.