Charley Varrick is a very underrated thriller that originally was released in the early 1970s and is typical of the many high standard American films of that genre which emerged from that era. It was directed by Don Siegel, whom Clint Eastwood regards as his mentor, and to whom Eastwood dedicated ... Read review
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Advantages: Taut, clever, well-acted thriller which is entertaining and never lets up Disadvantages: A little dated in style. Some ideas in the film have been copied since
...Unforgiven. For some mysterious reason Charley Varrick was overlooked and was not a great box office hit at the time, unlike Siegel's previous, highly successful thriller, Dirty Harry. If anything I regard Charley Varrick as being the superior thriller, and seems to age better over the years, being a smarter and more subtle film in its approach, and just as entertaining.
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Charley Varrick stars the late Walter Matthau (the ... ...then I've seen Charley Varrick several times over the years on TV, although it rarely gets shown now, and I've never been bored by revisiting it, It makes me really appreciate how decent a stylish thriller can be when you have well-cast actors, a strong storyline and sufficient tension. Charley Varrick has all these ingredients. Walter Matthau is in superb form as the wisecracking, wily Varrick and Joe Don Baker is highly effective as the menacing ...
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