La gran estafa

Título original: Charley Varrick

1973
18
1h 51min

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Heist Crime Drama Thriller

Un hombre, su mujer y un amigo protagonizan un sangriento atraco a un banco sin saber que están robándole a la mafia.Un hombre, su mujer y un amigo protagonizan un sangriento atraco a un banco sin saber que están robándole a la mafia.Un hombre, su mujer y un amigo protagonizan un sangriento atraco a un banco sin saber que están robándole a la mafia.

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Ganó 1 premio BAFTA
- 1 premio y 1 nominación en total

Curiosidades
Walter Matthau was not fond of this film. Don Siegel would later say that Matthau hurt this film's box office by publicly stating that he neither liked the film nor understood it.

Pifias
Charlie 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.

Citas
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.

Conexiones
Edited into You're Still Not Fooling Anybody (1997)

Banda sonora
You Can Make a Memory Out of Me
Written by Lalo Schifrin and Paul Vance
Performed by Dee Dee Warwick

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7/10

Matthau's fine performance

Matthau's fine performance and Siegel's assured direction makes this a must for all lovers of 1970s action movies. Having passed this over before, I found Charlie Varrick to be an exhilarating watch containing beautiful landscapes and a stunning finale.

I highly recommend this film and the section on it written by Siegel in his own autobiography. Criticisms that this is a confusing and slow-paced adventure are unfounded as many of the loose ends come together almost perfectly in a well thought through chain of events.

Definitely worth a look when it next comes on TV, but probably even better at the cinema.