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Plot:
Walker (Lee Marvin) strides through Los Angeles with the steel-eyed stare of a stone-cold killer, or perhaps a ghost. Betrayed by his wife and best friend, who gun him down point-blank and leave him f...( read more
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Just when everyone thought good old noir was under the ground, John Boorman resurrected it in style, mixing it with a little psychedelia and avant-garde techniques, adding sex appeal of blond babes Angie Dickinson and Sharon Acker, and last but not least, placing the tough guy Lee Marvin in the deadly assignment of getting the money he was double-crossed for. Topnotch example of innovative, hypnotic and thrilling filmmaking.
Definitely a good revenge flick. Is it New Wave meets neo-noir? Who cares.
Worth seeing for Lee Marvin's icy performance as a betrayed man who will get his $93,000 back, no matter who he has to go through to get it.
Nice supporting roles by Angie Dickinson, John Vernon, and Alcatraz.
This movie is based on a classic pulp novel called "The Hunter" Lee Marvin is the quintessential bad ass, loved it
Line that best explains the movie...
"So what are you going to do? Wait for him to come home and ask for the money and when he doesn't have it, shoot him like everyone else?"
"Yeah something like that."
Brilliant. I had no idea there was an American New Wave, much less the fact that John Boorman was a master of it.
Lee Marvin is unstoppable. You can't turn away any moment he's on the screen.
Great cast, great film.
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