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Varrick is a small-time stick-up man who, in tandem with his partner Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), makes plans to rob a small bank in New Mexico.
Varrick and Sullivan are expecting a modest payday for a simple heist, but to their surprise they walk away with $750,000 in cash.
Varrick goes through a laborous effort to cover his tracks and even telephones the rightful owner of the money (John Vernon), but the hitman may be unstoppable.
CharleyVarrick was set in New Mexico, but filmed primarily in Dayton, Nevada and Genoa, Nevada.
CharleyVarrick (Matthau) is a crop-duster by trade ("Last of the Independents", is the byline to his company, and Siegel initially wanted that as the film title).
In the opening sequence of CharleyVarrick a bank robbery in a small New Mexico town goes terribly awry when a local policeman stops to question the driver of the getaway car (Felicia Farr, as Varrick's wife).
Varrick and his remaining partner (Andy Robinson) then drive out to the desert where they detonate the getaway car (in a beautifully composed long shot, the car explodes into a ball of fire beneath an immaculate blue sky).
As Charley's shortsighted partner Harman, Robinson brings to his character the same febrile intensity he brought to the role of the masochistic killer in Dirty Harry.
Varrick is a small-time stick-up man who, in tandem with his partner Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), makes plans to rob a small bank in New Mexico.
Varrick and Sullivan are expecting a modest payday for a simple heist, but to their surprise they walk away with $750,000 in cash.
Before Varrick can figure out a way to return the money, sadistic hired killer Molly (Joe Don Baker) is on his trail, forcing Varrick to outwit both the cops and the robbers if he is to stay alive.
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Walter Matthau as CharleyVarrick, Joe Don Baker as Molly, Felicia Farr as Sybil Fort, Sheree North as Jewell Everett, Norman Fell as Mr.
CharleyVarrick: It has to do with this bag of money I'd like to give back to you.
CharleyVarrick: The problem is the big gorilla in the maroon car who's trying to kill me.
Walter Matthau plays the part of CharleyVarrick who is a bit of a “has-been” pilot who now earns a steady living as a crop duster.
Varrick soon realises that they have stumbled across a Mafia stash of cash and not only will the police be after them, but the Mob from Las Vegas will be out to kill them.
The film follows how the robbers are gradually killed and Varrick is left deciding whether to try to...
Small-time bank robber and cropduster pilot Varrick (Matthau) pulls off a bank job in Tres Cruces, New Mexico that leaves four dead and his wife mortally wounded.
Varrick winds up having to contend with the cops and the mob, as well as his mistrustful partner who can't wait to get out and start throwing the money around.
Matthau is contrary to type as the gum-chewing, rumpled, laconic con man Varrick; while Molly has a hot rod Chrysler to chase them, Varrick has a WWI-era biplane.
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CharleyVarrick is a small-time crook who outfoxes the Mob in this fast-paced offbeat thriller directed by Don Siegel.
(Had streetsmart Varrick known of the Mob's involvement, he would not have robbed the bank.) Of course neither the Mob nor the police are pleased with the loss of about $750,000.
Charlie Varrick1973, directed by Don Siegel of Dirty Harry fame, is a highly entertaining film about a small time crook who robs the wrong bank and steals close to a...
In truth, Pulp Fiction doesn't borrow anywhere near as much from CharleyVarrick as, say, Reservoir Dogs does from The Killing, but Siegel's film does form part of the vast crazy-quilt of forgotten and half-remembered violent, lurid genre movies which shaped Quentin Tarantino's ebullient trash aesthetic.
Recently released on DVD, CharleyVarrick stars Walter Matthau as a former trick pilot reduced to robbing banks with his wife and a hot-headed young punk played by Andrew Robinson, who two years earlier made an indelible impression as the psychotic heavy in Siegel's Dirty Harry.
A low-key, tough little thriller punctuated by casual bursts of brutality and deadpan humor, CharleyVarrick is informed by a quiet professionalism that suits a movie about feds and criminals doing their jobs, whether that means laundering money, making fake passports, or robbing banks.
CharleyVarrick is a small-time crook who outfoxes the Mob in this fast-paced offbeat thriller directed by Don Siegel.
Academy Award winner Walter Matthau stars in a rare dramatic role, along with the powerful Joe Don Baker, as a tough Mafia hitman.
The chase is on as the Big Boys go after the "Last of the Independents." It's a heart-pounding ride that builds to a fiery airborne climax as Charley makes his last desperate run for the Mexican border and safety.
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Genre veteran Don Siegel made one of his more subversive choices when he cast the hangdog Walter Matthau as the cunning title character in 1973's caper flick Charley Varr...
Don Siegel directed this offbeat crime thriller which stars Walter Matthau as the titular CharleyVarrick.
Varrick and Sullivan are expecting a modest payday for a simple heist...
Marvellous, toughly eccentric thriller which confirmed that Siegel had more responses to '70s paranoia than a mere Magnum blast, and decisively removed Matthau from the wasteland of Neil Simon wit.
Varrick, 'the last of the independents', unwittingly hits a Mafia payroll; staying alive means outwitting Molly (Baker), the Mafia's freak-killer hitman.
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CharleyVarrick and his friends rob a small town bank.
And CHARLEYVARRICK is a fine specimen of the exciting, brutal, honest approach to movies in that decade.
We've become so accustomed to seeing Walter Matthau in comedies like GRUMPY OLD MEN that at first you'd wonder if he could pull his part off as Varrick convincingly (well, he also played a crook in KING CREOLE and a detective in THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE, TWO THREE, for openers).