Based on the theme of the individual pitted against the large, impersonal organization. Here the central character is an old-fashioned loner of a gunman embroiled with a large-scale, corporate criminal operation behind a respectable-looking ‘front’. Without delving into psychology or motivation, the film places emphasis on action and surface appearances, superbly capturing the glossy, depersonalized feel of a 1967 Los Angeles–a nightmare landscape of concrete, glass and coiling freeways.

Point Blank (1967)
  • Rating: (7,666 votes)
  • Tagline:There are two kinds of people in his up-tight world: his victims and his women. And sometimes you can't tell them apart. »
  • Runtime:92 minutes
  • Director: John Boorman
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Walker
    Lee Marvin
    Chris
    Angie Dickinson
    Yost
    Keenan Wynn
    Brewster
    Carroll O'Connor
    Frederick Carter
    Lloyd Bochner
    Stegman
    Michael Strong
    Mal Reese
    John Vernon
    Lynne
    Sharon Acker
    Hired Gun
    James Sikking
    Waitress
    Sandra Warner
  • Genres:Crime, Drama, Thriller
  • Producers:
    Judd Bernard
    producer  
    Robert Chartoff
    producer  
    Irwin Winkler
    producer (uncredited)  
  • Plot: Based on the theme of the individual pitted against the large, impersonal organization. Here the central character is an old-fashioned loner of a gunman embroiled with a large-scale, corporate criminal operation behind a respectable-looking 'front'. Without delving into psychology or motivation, the film places emphasis on action and surface appearances, superbly capturing the glossy, depersonalized feel of a 1967 Los Angeles--a nightmare landscape of concrete, glass and coiling freeways. Written by alfiehitchie
Point Blank
  • User's comment: by Aaron Bates

    Point Blank kind of came and went in theaters but I can't imagine anyone who saw it in 1967 left forgetting John Boorman's tough and beautiful film. A simple story told in a very stylish and, at times, surreal manner. Though the storyline is a variation on "revenge" themes, it is Boorman's images that open it up and find pay-dirt. Images of Lee Marvin emptying his pistol in slow motion, the sound of footsteps over a string of pictures that curdle the mind, and the seemingly limitless use of rawness perfectly realized in the action and performance by Marvin and,interestingly, Angie Dickinson. There is a wonderful conflict between the primal Marvin and the Corporate Crime world which he cannot understand. Marvin knows survival of the fittest- not the richest. It's hypnotic and aggressive. Boorman balances perfectly on the line between the two.


  • Quotes: Brewster: You're a very bad man, Walker, a very destructive man! Why do you run around doing things like this? Walker: I want my money. I want my $93,000. Brewster: $93,000? You threaten a financial structure like this for $93,000? No, Walker, I don't believe you. What do you really want?
  • Also known as: A quemarropa (Argentina), A quemarropa (Mexico - imdb display title), A quemarropa (Spain), Point Blank (Sweden - imdb display title), Point Blank (West Germany - imdb display title), À Queima Roupa (Portugal), À Queima-Roupa (Brazil), A játéknak vége (Hungary - imdb display title), Brisani prostor (Yugoslavia - literal title, Serbian title), Dönüsü olmayan yol (Turkey - Turkish title), Hämnaren från Alcatraz (Sweden - reissue title), Le point de non-retour (France), Mrtva tacka (Serbia - imdb display title), O epanastatis tou Alcatraz (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Point Blank - Keiner darf Überleben (West Germany - video box title), Senza un attimo di tregua (Italy), Tappajan jäljet (Finland), Zbieg z Alcatraz (Poland),

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