A man, his wife and their friend stage a bloody bank robbery without realizing they are stealing from the Mob.A man, his wife and their friend stage a bloody bank robbery without realizing they are stealing from the Mob.A man, his wife and their friend stage a bloody bank robbery without realizing they are stealing from the Mob.
- Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
- Harman Sullivan
- (as Andy Robinson)
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- TriviaWalter Matthau was not fond of this film. Don Siegel would later say Matthau hurt this film's box office by publicly stating that he did not like the film nor even understand it.
- GoofsCharlie Varrick's business card is found by the police in one of the robber's abandoned cars, which leads to a dawn raid on his trailer, yet, no police are dispatched to Charlie's hangar and airstrip, to locate him or wait for his arrival.
- Quotes
Charley Varrick: You know what dirty money is? That's the kind of money you can't declare on your income tax. Well, when certain people get that kind of money, what they do is send it out of the country to invest, and when it comes back, it's clean.
Harman Sullivan: So?
Charley Varrick: So maybe that little bank was a drop, a collection point. Maybe all this was on its way out of the country.
Harman Sullivan: Fantastic! We lucked out!
Charley Varrick: More like crapped out. It's ten-to-one this stuff belongs to the Mafia. This is gambling money skimmed off the top, whore money, dope money.
Harman Sullivan: What's the difference?
Charley Varrick: The difference is the Mafia kills you, no trial, no judge. They never stop looking for you, not 'til you're dead. I'd rather have ten F.B.I.s after me.
- ConnectionsEdited into You're Still Not Fooling Anybody (1997)
I referred to it twice already; the strongest asset of "(Kill) Charley Varrick" are the genius character drawings. Varrick himself is an intelligent and careful thief, but he isn't the robust type of action hero, which is aptly showcased in the sequence where he hides outside his trailer whilst his accomplice is in mortal danger. John Vernon supposedly depicts a heartless mafia bookkeeper, but he makes his character quite human, as illustrated via the "girl-on-the-swing" scene and the conversation with bank director Harold Young (an amazing scene!). Last but not least, the phenomenal Joe Don Baker as the mafia hitman Molly. Just as you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, you shouldn't judge a hitman by his first name. Molly is, hands down, one of the most merciless, intimidating and unpredictable villains of the 70s.
There's only one default that really annoyed me about this film, although I reckon it's also a disease of the era of its release, and that's the complete lack of strong women. The top-billed female protagonist (Felicia Farr) only appears briefly and immediately shares the bed with a perpetrator, another woman (Sheree North) caresses a man who slaps her in the face, and a third one is just a noisy old neighbor.
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- Also known as
- Charley Varrick: The Last of the Independents
- Filming locations
- Genoa, Nevada, USA(Tres Cruces)
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- Gross worldwide
- $194
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1