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Charley Varrick is a american film of genre Drama directed by Don Siegel released in USA on 19 september 1973 with Walter Matthau
Charley Varrick (1973)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 19 september 1973
Length 1h51
Directed by Don Siegel
OriginUSA
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Rating74%
Charley Varrick is a 1973 crime film directed by Don Siegel and starring Walter Matthau, Andrew Robinson, Joe Don Baker and John Vernon. The film was based on the novel The Looters by John H. Reese.
Synopsis
Charley Varrick (Matthau) is a crop-duster and former stunt pilot. The aging trailer-park dweller has clearly not been too successful. Together with his wife Nadine and co-conspirators Al Dutcher and Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), a heavily disguised Varrick robs a bank in the rural crossroads community of Tres Cruces, New Mexico. During the robbery, two policemen and Dutcher are killed. Nadine drives the get-away car and eludes the police, but she, too, has been mortally wounded. Varrick distracts the police by blowing up the getaway car with black powder and gasoline, with his wife's body inside. He and Sullivan escape.Actors
Walter Matthau
(Charley Varrick)
Andrew Robinson
(Harman Sullivan)
Joe Don Baker
(Molly)
John Vernon
(Maynard Boyle)
Felicia Farr
(Sybil Fort)
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