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Charley Varrick <\/i>(1973)<\/strong><\/p>\n Director: \u00a0Don Siegel<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: Dean Riesner, Howard Rodman; <\/strong>based on THE LOOTERS by John H. Reese<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, Sheree North, Norman Fell, Benson Fong, Woodrow Parfrey, William Schallert, Jacqueline Scott, Marjorie Bennett, Rudy Diaz, Colby Chester, Hope Summers, Craig R. Baxley, Don Siegel, John Vernon, Bob Steele <\/strong>and Charles Matthau<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline: It’s not easy to rob the Mob and stay alive.<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Charley Varrick wasn’t always a criminal.\u00a0 At one time he was a stunt pilot.\u00a0 Then a crop duster.\u00a0 When his crop business went south, Charley became a bank robber.\u00a0 He was always careful to pick small banks in remote locations.<\/p>\n When Charlie and his three man crew knock off a bank in a no name town, things go sideways.\u00a0 Two of his crew are killed along with the bank’s security guard.\u00a0 Charlie and Harmon get away with the loot.\u00a0 They’re shocked to discover they have $750,000.00.\u00a0 There is no way that tiny bank should have that kind of cash.\u00a0 Radio reports are that the thieves made off with $2,000.00.<\/p>\n Charlie realizes that the bank was being used by the mob to launder money.\u00a0 He knows that if you steal from the mob, they will find and kill you no matter how long it takes.\u00a0 Charlie tells Harmon they’ll need to sit on the money for a few years.\u00a0 If they’re lucky, they’ll live to slowly spend it.\u00a0 Harmon just wants his cut now — he plans to live it up.<\/p>\n As if that isn’t bad enough, the cops are working the case.\u00a0 Worse still, the mob has hired a stone cold killer to track down the cash and kill the thieves.<\/p>\n It’s not easy to rob the Mob and stay alive.<\/em><\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Walter Matthau’s son, Charlie plays the role of the little boy in front of the bank that gets robbed.<\/p>\n Director Don Siegel plays a character named Murphy.<\/p>\n Surprisingly Walter Matthau wasn’t a fan of the finished film.<\/p>\n Joe Don Baker is perfect as the sadistic killer who dominates every scene he’s in.<\/p>\n Charley Varrick (1973)<\/strong> <\/i><\/b>rates 5 of 5 stars<\/span> Charley Varrick (1973) Director: \u00a0Don Siegel Screenplay: Dean Riesner, Howard Rodman; based on THE LOOTERS by John H. Reese Stars:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39810,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809\/revisions\/39810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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