Charlie Varrick

I am always trying to go back and watch older movies especially ones from the seventies when movie making was at its finest.  Not a whole lot of tricks and special effects just letting the camera role and let the guys in front of it take care of the story. 

I take interest in this particular movie because it is from director Don Siegel whose previous effort was the classic Dirty Harry.  Siegel served as Eastwood's mentor in directing and always had a lean and efficient way to film making. 

Charley Varrick is about a group of bank robbers that take down a small town bank but come up with a very large sum of money.  The late great Walter Matthau plays Charlie and figures this bank served as a drop point for the mob and figures he better take quick action because he would rather have ten FBIs after him than one mafia.  Andrew Robinson, the Scorpio killer from Dirty Harry, plays his partner and he has nothing but dollars on his mind so Charlie has to work without his input.  The mafia sends Joe Don Baker after Charlie to collect their money and he catches up quick.  See if Charlie survives this.  Great work by the cast and the always sure handed Siegel.  Universal, it is time to release a wide screen version of this classic.

Opening Day for the Rangers is tomorrow!