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Charley Varrick

Tucson Citizen | 6 days ago

'The Ghost Writer' scares some class into a stale genre

...seventies crime dramas. Echoes of films such as Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974), Don Siegel's Charley Varrick (1974) and Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (1975) are evoked...

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Wikipedia | 1 month ago

Walter Matthau

...a mass murder on a bus in The Laughing Policeman, as a bank robber on the run from the Mafia and the law in Charley Varrick and as a New York transit cop in the action-adventure The...

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

Joe Don Baker

...for a courageous and offbeat portrait of the sadistic hitman Molly. The film starred Walter Matthau as the bank robber Varrick, and won a British Academy Award. Baker has given many...

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

Charley Varrick

...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...

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

Tom Tully

...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,...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Woodrow Parfrey

...of the Apes '' (1968). He appeared in small parts in ''The Outlaw Josey Wales, Bronco Billy, Dirty Harry, and Charley Varrick). Parfrey died of a heart attack on July 29, 1984, aged...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

27th British Academy Film Awards

...Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1974, honoured the best films of 1973 . ' Walter Matthau in ''Charley Varrick and Pete 'n' Tillie ''' Donald Sutherland in Don't Look Now

PopMatters | 2 months ago

Last of the Independents (Review)

...Independents, one has pretty much the same reaction-here is another riff on the now seminal Charley Varrick. Charley Varrick itself, runs like a masterpiece theater of small-time crime.

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Mustang Ranch

...trees. Such a restoration will cost millions of dollars and could begin by 2007. The 1973 motion picture Charley Varrick contained a scene filmed at Mustang Ranch, with a cameo by Joe...

A.V. Club RSS Feeds | 5 months ago

Film: AVQ&A:Favorite micro-genres

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...

Vanity Fair: James Wolcott's Blog | 7 months ago

Robert Mitchum and a Mime Troupe of Masked Intruders

...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...

Wikipedia | 9 months ago

Charles Matthau

...director, son of actor Walter Matthau. He appeared as a child actor alongside his father,in such films as Charley Varrick (1973), The Bad News Bears (1976) and House Calls (1978).