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Sunday 22 September 2013

Warner Archive: Point Blank (1967) 'Walker Coming For You'


Source:Warner Archive- Lee Marvin as Walker, in Point Blank (1967)
Source:The Daily Journal

"They double-crossed Walker, took his $93,000 cut of the heist and left him for dead, but they didn't finish the job. Big mistake. He - someday, somehow - is going to finish them. Lee Marvin is in full antihero mode as remorseless Walker, talking the talk and walking the walk in John Boorman's (Deliverance) edgy neo-noir classic filled with imaginative New Wave style, blunt dialogue and Walker's relentless quest that, one by one, smashes into the corporate pecking order of a crime group called the Organization.

Directed By John Boorman
Starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn." 


For the life of me, I still don’t know what the woman in this scene was trying to say and what point she was making. Not sure Walker did either, but this is an important part of this movie, because Walker is back in town which is San Francisco. And he is back in town for a real reason, he wants the money that he stole that his partners took for him. 

The money that Walker (played by Lee Marvin) is obviously not his money because he stole it. But in a criminal’s mind, money you take is yours. Except when another criminal takes your money. And Walker first stops by his wife’s apartment and to see if one of the men he’s after one of his former partners is there. Because one of them was sleeping with his wife. And that is really what this scene is about trying to get one of the men that can get him the money that he stole.

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