![]() ![]() As Boorman recalled, " said, 'I have script approval?' They said 'yes'. When they agreed to work on the film, Marvin discarded the script and called a meeting with the head of the studio, the producers, his agent and Boorman. Both hated the script but loved Walker the main character. Boorman and Marvin talked about a script based on the book The Hunter by Donald Westlake. ![]() īoorman met Marvin in London, where the actor was shooting The Dirty Dozen. They struggled to get the script to Marvin, so sent it to John Boorman, an emerging director he knew from his management days. Winkler and Judd Bernard became enthusiastic about the Point Blank script and felt it would be ideal for Lee Marvin. It was the second film produced by Irwin Winkler who had just made Double Trouble at MGM. Stu Gardner as nightclub singer (uncredited).Yost/Fairfax and the hit man go away while leaving the money on the ground. Brewster was the last one.” He offers a partnership, but Walker remains silent. Yost/Fairfax thanks Walker (who is still hiding in the darkness) for eliminating his dangerous underlings, telling him: “Our deal's done, Walker. Brewster calls out to Walker, “This is Fairfax, Walker! Kill him!” Yost emerges from the shadows, telling Brewster that it was not Walker who shot him. Hiding in the dark is the sniper who shoots Brewster. “The drop has changed, but the run is still the same”, he explains.Īt Fort Point, Walker refuses to show himself as the courier delivers the money. Brewster says the only cash available for Walker is in San Francisco. ![]() Walker forces Brewster to call Fairfax, but Fairfax refuses to pay. The following morning, Brewster comes home and is ambushed by Walker, who demands his money. They fall to the floor in an embrace, then go to bed and make love. He finds her playing pool she turns on him and hits him in the head with a pool cue. She taunts him as “washed up” over a speaker system. Walker hears noises from the kitchen and goes in to turn off several appliances which Chris has apparently turned on. While waiting for Brewster, Chris slaps and punches Walker as he regards her impassively, not defending himself. He brings her with him to Brewster's house, claiming she will be safer with him. Walker visits Chris in her apartment, which has been trashed by The Organization. Yost takes Walker to a house belonging to Brewster. The sniper leaves Walker tears open the package of money, but finds only slips of blank paper. Carter and Stegman both get shot at the pickup. Walker, suspecting a trap, forces Carter to get the money instead. A sniper is assigned to kill him at a money-drop in the paved Los Angeles River bed. Walker, still grasping the bedsheet, watches him fall.Īfter next confronting Carter for his money, Walker is set up. Forced to back up himself, Reese accidentally goes over the side and plunges to his death. Startled, Walker backs up quickly still holding on to Reese behind him by the bedsheet. Suddenly, a bodyguard switches on the light in the room they just left, calling for Reese. He then forces the naked, bedsheet covered, Reese to the balcony saying that both will go and meet Carter together. With a gun to Reese's head, Walker persuades him to give up the names of his Organization superiors – Carter, Brewster, and Fairfax – so he can make somebody pay back his $93,000. Walker ties up some men in an apartment across from the penthouse and has a call made to police to report a robbery, creating a diversion that enables him to slip into the penthouse. Willing to help in any way, Chris agrees to a sexual tryst with Reese inside his heavily guarded penthouse apartment where she will unbolt a door for Walker. Walker approaches car dealer Stegman for information, smashing a new car and terrorizing him until Stegman says Reese is with Walker's sister-in-law, Chris.īreaking in on Chris, he learns that she despises Reese and admires Walker. ![]() Lynne is distraught she takes an overdose of sleeping pills. Reese used all of the money from the job to pay back a debt to a crime syndicate called "The Organization." Walker goes to Los Angeles where he bursts in on Lynne and riddles her bed with bullets, only to find Reese has long since disappeared. With assistance from the mysterious Yost, Walker sets out to find Reese and recover his half of the robbery: $93,000. Reese takes the money and Walker's wife, Lynne. After counting the money, Reese shoots Walker, leaving him for dead. Walker works with his friend Mal Reese to rob a major crime operation, ambushing the courier on deserted Alcatraz Island. ![]()
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