Point Blank
Director John Boorman brought the gangster drama into new realms of modernist abstraction with this stylized revenge thriller, which transforms hard-edged pulp into a kaleidoscopic psychological puzzle. Lee Marvin is iconically cool as the enigmatic Walker, who, after he’s betrayed and left for dead by his best friend during a robbery, embarks on a brutal quest for vengeance, aided by a jaded ex-moll (a sensational Angie Dickinson) who has her own complex motives for helping him. Capturing Los Angeles locales with a surreal pop-art eye, Boorman locates the existential dread lurking beneath the city’s sunlit surface.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director John Boorman, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring Boorman and filmmaker Steven Soderbergh
- Interview with Boorman conducted by author Geoff Dyer
- New interview with critic Mark Harris
- New reflections on the film by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch
- New program on the midcentury Los Angeles architecture featured in the film, with historian Alison Martino
- The Rock (1967), a short documentary on Alcatraz and the making of the film
- Interview with Marvin from a 1970 episode of The Dick Cavett Show
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by Dyer
New cover by Jay Shaw
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director John Boorman, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring Boorman and filmmaker Steven Soderbergh
- Interview with Boorman conducted by author Geoff Dyer
- New interview with critic Mark Harris
- New reflections on the film by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch
- New program on the midcentury Los Angeles architecture featured in the film, with historian Alison Martino
- The Rock (1967), a short documentary on Alcatraz and the making of the film
- Interview with Marvin from a 1970 episode of The Dick Cavett Show
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by Dyer
New cover by Jay Shaw
Cast
- Lee Marvin
- Walker
- Angie Dickinson
- Chris
- Keenan Wynn
- Yost
- Carroll O’Connor
- Brewster
- Lloyd Bochner
- Frederick Carter
- Michael Strong
- Stegman
- John Vernon
- Mal Reese
- Sharon Acker
- Lynne
- James Sikking
- Hired gun
- Sandra Warner
- Waitress
- Roberta Haynes
- Mrs. Carter
- Kathleen Freeman
- First citizen
- Victor Creatore
- Carter’s man
- Lawrence Hauben
- Car salesman
- Susan Holloway
- Girl customer
- Sid Haig
- First penthouse lobby guard
- Michael Bell
- Second penthouse lobby guard
- Priscilla Boyd
- Receptionist
- John McMurtry
- Messenger
- Ron Walters
- Young man in apartment
- George Strattan
- Young man in apartment
- Nicole Rogell
- Carter’s secretary
- Rico Cattani
- Reese’s guard
- Roland LaStarza
- Reese’s guard
Credits
- Director
- John Boorman
- Produced by
- Judd Bernard
- Produced by
- Robert Chartoff
- Screenplay by
- Alexander Jacobs
- Screenplay by
- David Newhouse
- Screenplay by
- Rafe Newhouse
- Based on the novel The Hunter by
- Richard Stark (Donald Westlake)
- Editor
- Henry Berman
- Unit production manager
- Edward Woehler
- Color consultant
- William Stair
- “Mighty Good Times” by
- Stu Gardner
- Sung by
- The Stu Gardner Trio
- Dialogue coach
- Norman Stuart
- Art director
- George W. Davis
- Art director
- Albert Brenner
- Set decoration
- Henry Grace
- Set decoration
- Keogh Gleason
- Recording supervisor
- Franklin Milton
- Assistant director
- Al Jennings
- Director of photography
- Philip H. Lathrop
- Music
- Johnny Mandel
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A scene from Point Blank
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Trailer for Point Blank
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