{"id":14120,"date":"2021-03-31T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14120"},"modified":"2021-03-28T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T13:27:22","slug":"point-blank-1967-john-boorman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14120","title":{"rendered":"Point Blank (1967, John Boorman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Profit is the only principle.&#8221;  Double featuring this with <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14122\">No No Sleep<\/a><\/em>, I was tickled that the lead character is named Walker.  During a robbery turned murderous, Lee Marvin&#8217;s wife and his partner turn on him and leave him for dead.  Years later he&#8217;s on a singleminded revenge rampage, demanding his share of what turns out to be a relatively small amount of money from the people involved&#8230; I feel like the &#8220;I want my two dollars&#8221; kid from <em>Better Off Dead<\/em> was based on Lee Marvin.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/pointblank1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>After visiting traitorous wife Sharon Acker he beats up a car dealer who leads him to Sharon&#8217;s sister Angie Dickinson, who offers to help.  He catches up with his killer an hour in (never trust a man named Mal) and the guy&#8217;s a whiny bitch who gives up his bosses immediately.  Marvin drops him off a building anyway.  Instead of paying him to go away, Mal&#8217;s organization boss Keenan Wynn uses Marvin&#8217;s uncautious killing spree to their advantage, letting him kill off Wynn&#8217;s enemies\/partners.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/pointblank2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Besides being a satisfying Lee Marvin action story, the movie has some of the most baller shots and editing of all time, every bit as good as I remembered.  Dispatched crime bosses include Lloyd Bochner (<em>The Dunwich Horror<\/em>) then Carroll &#8220;Archie Bunker&#8221; O&#8217;Connor.  Car dealer Michael Strong looked familiar, but it must&#8217;ve been from this since I barely remember <em>Patton<\/em>.  Mal was John Vernon who&#8217;d later go up against Clint Eastwood a few times and presumably lose.  Big Bad Wynn had recently been in <em>Dr. Strangelove<\/em>, and I haven&#8217;t seen Dickinson or Marvin in enough movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Profit is the only principle.&#8221; Double featuring this with No No Sleep, I was tickled that the lead character is named Walker. During a robbery turned murderous, Lee Marvin&#8217;s wife and his partner turn on him and leave him for dead. Years later he&#8217;s on a singleminded revenge rampage, demanding his share of what turns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,795,2830,1117,144],"class_list":["post-14120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-angie-dickinson","tag-john-boorman","tag-lee-marvin","tag-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14147,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14120\/revisions\/14147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}