Capital Celluloid 2015 - Day 194: Mon Jul 13

Charley Varrick (Siegel, 1973): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.45pm


This is part of the Universal Archives season at the Prince Charles. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Don Siegel wants to turn the tables on the paranoid fantasies that have animated some of his best films (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Madigan, Dirty Harry), but he never lets this get in the way of his impressive sense of humor and undisputed mastery at constructing an action film. Walter Matthau stars as a small-timer who unwittingly rips off a Mafia bank in a routine, low-budget heist and spends the rest of the film outwitting hit man Joe Don Baker and Mafia lieutenant John Vernon. This 1973 feature is one of the finest examples of action montage from its period, a dynamite piece of work.
Don Druker

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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