Marvin's chillingly stoic presence further hints at the ambiguities in Chris's observation that Walker died at Alcatraz, all right.īrutal in the violence that it shows and suggests, Point Blank opened in the U.S. In his first American feature, Boorman transforms a stripped-down revenge plot into a surreal meditation on the gangster's spiritual demise, using flashbacks and startling shifts in setting to interweave Walker's fractured memories with his extraordinarily photographed odyssey through L.A.
Wanting little but his cash, Walker implacably penetrates Mal's lair and the hierarchy of the shady Organization, registering no emotion about the string of murders left in his wake, as his thoughts repeatedly return to the past that brought him there. Resurrected, the stone-faced Walker returns to Los Angeles a couple of years later to seek revenge on Mal with the help of the enigmatic Yost ( Keenan Wynn) and Lynne's sister Chris ( Angie Dickinson). In Alcatraz to divvy up the spoils from a robbery, thief Walker ( Lee Marvin) is instead shot point blank by his double-crossing friend Mal Reese ( John Vernon) and left to die while Reese takes off with Walker's wife Lynne ( Sharon Acker) and his $93,000. Westlake's novel The Hunter, John Boorman's gangster film hauntingly merges a generic revenge story with a European art cinema sensibility.
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