This heist movie packs thrills, emotion , extraordinary performances, twists, turns and nail-biting burglary. San Francisco ex-con Eddie Pedak (Alain Delon) wishes to go straight, but local cop Mike Vido (Van Heflin) , motivated by a personal revenge when he was wounded in a hold-up, keeps harassing him while Eddie's brother Walter(Jack Palance) wants Eddie for one last major heist along with his two villain hoodlums (Tony musante, John Davies Chandler) . Eddie has a beautiful wife, (Anne Margret) and a daughter, and he puts a down-payment on a boat. Caught! . . Right in the middle between the killers and the cops!. Always a target, for either side of the law!. Once a thief...Always a target with the cops on one side - the killers on the other!. The cop believes Eddie shot him; the brother wants him for one last heist !.
This is a decent thriller full of intrigue, family drama, action, tension, emotion, and violence. Stunning performances by the trio of known protagonists: Delon, Heflin and Margret. Here Alain Delon is nice as Eddie Pedak, a convicted criminal who has a steady job as well as a good family , Van Heflin as the police detective who's after him and Anne Margret as the long-suffering and faithful wife. This entertaining and suspenseful film is plenty of twists and unexpected turns. Second film, also starring Alain Delon, adapted from a Zekial Marko novel, the first one was ¨Henry Verneuil's Any number can win¨ (1963) that Delon starred with Jean Gavin. The great starring trio are accompanied by stunning secondaries, such as: Jack Palance, Tony Musante, Jeff Corey and special mention for John Davis Chandler for creating one of the baddest henchmen characters of the sixties.
Contains an atmospheric cinematography in black and white by cameraman Robert Burks (Hitchcock's regular cameraman) , using camera Eastman 4-X , which eliminated the need for a lot of expensive lighting equipment, especially in nighttime set pieces. As well as thrilling and offbeat musical score by composer Lalo Schifrin. The motion picture was competently and professionally directed by Ralph Nelson. There were no half measures in this filmmaker. As Nelson would make sentimental movies or violent and gore films . Failure alternated with hits through the 1960s, though Nelson's direction was more than successful in ¨Lilies of the field¨ with invaluable help of Sidney Poitier who won an Oscar as an African-American helping a group of German nuns to build a chapel , it has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally significant¨. And of course , his greatest success ¨Soldier Blue¨, including cruel massacres and and blood fountained all over the screen. In the 70s Nelson went on to making strong movies , however, his films themselves were doing less successful at the Boxoffice , numerous of those being barely seen outside US. As a violent Zapata Western titled ¨Wrath of God¨ with Robert Mitchum, as ¨Tick..Tick..Tick¨ in which the racial tensions arise when a black man being elected sheriff , ¨ The Wilby conspiracy¨ about the apartheid with Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier and a Sci-fi movie titled ¨Embryo¨ with Rock Hudson that unfortunately was a flop at the American and international boxoffice . Rating : 6.5/10, above average, fans will enjoy the french idol Delon.
This is a decent thriller full of intrigue, family drama, action, tension, emotion, and violence. Stunning performances by the trio of known protagonists: Delon, Heflin and Margret. Here Alain Delon is nice as Eddie Pedak, a convicted criminal who has a steady job as well as a good family , Van Heflin as the police detective who's after him and Anne Margret as the long-suffering and faithful wife. This entertaining and suspenseful film is plenty of twists and unexpected turns. Second film, also starring Alain Delon, adapted from a Zekial Marko novel, the first one was ¨Henry Verneuil's Any number can win¨ (1963) that Delon starred with Jean Gavin. The great starring trio are accompanied by stunning secondaries, such as: Jack Palance, Tony Musante, Jeff Corey and special mention for John Davis Chandler for creating one of the baddest henchmen characters of the sixties.
Contains an atmospheric cinematography in black and white by cameraman Robert Burks (Hitchcock's regular cameraman) , using camera Eastman 4-X , which eliminated the need for a lot of expensive lighting equipment, especially in nighttime set pieces. As well as thrilling and offbeat musical score by composer Lalo Schifrin. The motion picture was competently and professionally directed by Ralph Nelson. There were no half measures in this filmmaker. As Nelson would make sentimental movies or violent and gore films . Failure alternated with hits through the 1960s, though Nelson's direction was more than successful in ¨Lilies of the field¨ with invaluable help of Sidney Poitier who won an Oscar as an African-American helping a group of German nuns to build a chapel , it has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally significant¨. And of course , his greatest success ¨Soldier Blue¨, including cruel massacres and and blood fountained all over the screen. In the 70s Nelson went on to making strong movies , however, his films themselves were doing less successful at the Boxoffice , numerous of those being barely seen outside US. As a violent Zapata Western titled ¨Wrath of God¨ with Robert Mitchum, as ¨Tick..Tick..Tick¨ in which the racial tensions arise when a black man being elected sheriff , ¨ The Wilby conspiracy¨ about the apartheid with Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier and a Sci-fi movie titled ¨Embryo¨ with Rock Hudson that unfortunately was a flop at the American and international boxoffice . Rating : 6.5/10, above average, fans will enjoy the french idol Delon.