Charley Varrick (1973)

Directed by

Don Siegel

Genre

drama film, action film, heist film, crime thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 287 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A small-time cropduster and bank robber finds himself in over his head when a heist nets mob money. He must outrun both the law and the mobsters who come looking for their cash.

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What happens

Charley Varrick (a.k.a.The Last of the Independents and Kill Charley Varrick) is a 1973 American neo-noir crime film directed by Don Siegel and starring Walter Matthau, Andrew Robinson, Joe Don Baker and John Vernon. Charley Varrick is based on the novel The Looters by John H. Reese, and is the first of four consecutive films in which Matthau appeared that were not comedies (although his role in Earthquake is comedic). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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