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Charley Varrick - Wikipedia

    Charley Varrick is a crop duster and former stunt pilot with knowledge about explosives.

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    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.

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    This is Matthau’s second crime movie in a row, after “Charley Varrick,” and it adds an interesting new dimension to his character.

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  • The Charley Varrick in The Looters is, to put it plainly, a sleazy third-rate low-rent criminal sociopath, who knows his chosen profession.

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  • In "Charley Varrick" (one of my favorite films), John Vernon utters this line of dialogue: "They'll go to work on you with a blow torch and a pair of pliers.
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    This is Matthau’s second crime movie in a row, after “Charley Varrick,” and it adds an interesting new dimension to his character.
    “Charley Varrick” was helmed by Chicago native Don Siegel, whom Rode regards as one of the most overlooked of post-war directors.

    Charley Varrick

    1973 film by Don Siegel

    Charley Varrick (a.k.a.The Last of the Independents and Kill Charley Varrick) is a 1973 American neo-noircrime 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).

    Plot

    Charley Varrick is a crop duster and former stunt pilot with knowledge about explosives. He, his wife, and two others, Al and Harman, rob a bank in rural New Mexico. Al and Charley's wife are killed when the crime turns violent. Having gotten away to a distant trailer park, Charley and Harman discover that the heist netted more than three-quarters of a million dollars. When a news outlet reports that less than $2,000 was stolen, Charley correctly concludes that the bank was being used to launder il

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  • A clue may lie in the observations in the doc: “Varrick” got a U.S. release that was little more than a dump, didn’t do well, and was consigned to obscurity in the U.S., while it was highly praised in Europe, Matthau even receiving a BAFTA Best Actor Award for his superb lead performance.

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