Charley Varrick

...crop-duster by trade. (Siegel wanted Varrick's company's motto, "Last of the Independents," to be the title of the film.) By inclination Varrick prefers armed robbery to crop dusting, but the aging trailer-park dweller has clearly not been too...

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...world of? I'll give you an example! I love action or horror movies from the 1970s that are set in the American southwest! That means I love Charley Varrick, The Gauntlet, The Car, The Devil's Rain, Race With The Devil, and Mr. Majestyk not...

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...Grusin's score is the film's only flagrant offender ("routine caper-score noodling," somebody called it), a cross between Bullitt and Charley Varrick with the then-obligatory funky licks on the soundtrack whenever somebody's driving to a...

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...History Research Center) at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Several of his Western stories were made into films, including Charley Varrick (1973) from the novel The Looters, Good Day for a Hanging (1959) from the story Frontier...

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...of Inspector Matt Grebb on the CBS television detective series The Lineup ''. His last role was as a crooked gun dealer in Don Siegel's thriller ''Charley Varrick (1973). Tully died of cancer on April 27, 1982 in Newport Beach, California.

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It was nominated for two Academy Awards, Julius J. Epstein for Adapted Screenplay and Geraldine Page for Supporting Actress . Walter Matthau won the 1973 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for this and for Charley Varrick

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...when it's most abstract and elemental, glued to the horizon. This is one of those wonderfully tactile films from the '70s, like Charley Varrick or Electra Glide in Blue, that seems kinetically, electrically connected to the landscapes...

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...clamped-down dryness how magnificently he could command a serious part. advertisement The film starts with a botched heist (a terrific scene): Varrick robs a small-town New Mexico bank that turns out to be a "drop" for dirty Mafia...

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...festival that is now running at the New Beverly, and I hope some of you made it out for the first few double-features. CHARLEY VARRICK and THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1-2-3 were like a badass sammich served up hot, and noir...

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...rewarding. I'm going to see how many of the nights I can make it down there for, starting with that awesome Walter Matthau double-feature. CHARLEY VARRICK on the bigscreen? I'll take two tickets for awesome, please. Here's the full line-up,...

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