![]() Department of Redundancy Department: The little dialog in the film is strange and repetitive.Determinator: The Organization should really pay him his money. ![]() ![]() Decoy Antagonist: Reese is established as Walker's main antagonist for betraying him and stealing his share, but he's ultimately only a minor cog in the Organization and Walker kills him about halfway through the movie.Combat Pragmatist: Walker will do anything to get an upper hand in a fight-such as giving a mook a Groin Attack.Bikini Bar: Walker tracks Chris to a nightclub where go-go dancers in bikinis wiggle on a side stage.When the drop is being made, Brewster gets shot, and the one shooting him - Yost - turns out to be Fairfax. Walker tricks Carter into getting killed, and kidnaps Brewster to force payment. Big Bad: There's a trio of Organization bosses - Carter, Brewster and Fairfax.Point Blank includes examples of these tropes: So not only does Walker have to deal with Reese, but also a large criminal enterprise with enough resources to take down one lonely man.īased on the novel The Hunter by Donald Westlake (using the pseudonym "Richard Stark"), the first of a series in which the central character is named Parker, not Walker. It turns out Reese needed the cash to pay off a debt to the mysterious Organization, a crime syndicate led by a trio of bosses. Walker survives the shooting and, with the help of the mysterious figure Yost ( Keenan Wynn), begins to hunt down Reese, his wife and the money. ![]() Walker (Marvin) is pulling a heist on Alcatraz Island with his partner Reese ( John Vernon) when Reese betrays him, taking both the money ($93,000) and Walker's wife Lynne (Sharon Acker) and leaving him for dead. What do you really want?Ī stylish and taut 1967 neo-noir crime thriller film, directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson. I want my $93,000.īrewster: $93,000? You threaten a financial structure like this for $93,000? No, Walker, I don't believe you. Brewster: You're a very bad man, Walker, a very destructive man! Why do you run around doing things like this? ![]()
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