Tuez Charley Varrick!

Titre original : Charley Varrick

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Walter Matthau and Joe Don Baker in Tuez Charley Varrick! (1973)

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Un homme, sa femme et leur ami organisent le cambriolage d'une banque d'une manière sanglante sans se rendre compte qu'ils volent la foule.Un homme, sa femme et leur ami organisent le cambriolage d'une banque d'une manière sanglante sans se rendre compte qu'ils volent la foule.Un homme, sa femme et leur ami organisent le cambriolage d'une banque d'une manière sanglante sans se rendre compte qu'ils volent la foule.

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Victoire aux 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 victoire et 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
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.

Gaffes
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.

Citations
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.

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

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

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9/10

An Unwanted Windfall

Walter Matthau playing the title role of Charley Varrick expected a few thousand dollars as the score in a small town bank in New Mexico. It was a costly robbery in human terms with only Matthau and hotheaded Andy Robinson who survive out of the original team of four.

Imagine their surprise when they discover what they've got is three quarters of a million dollars. It turns out the bank was a laundering operation for Syndicate money and they're not the forgiving kind even if he was so inclined to return the money.

Under Don Siegel's direction, Matthau turns in one of his best film performances as the wily bank robber who keeps a cool head in a very tricky situation. Matthau plays beautifully against Robinson who's everything Matthau's not in terms of brains and self control.

Matching Matthau is the syndicate cleanup man Joe Don Baker who's also a shrewd man with a very suspicious nature. That comes with the territory of Baker's job, still he's got a streak of meanness in him as well. Matthau and Baker are an evenly matched pair. What I especially love about Charley Varrick is how Matthau uses Baker's own suspicions against him in the end. Beautifully written and beautifully played.

If you liked the gritty realism of a film like The Asphalt Jungle you will definitely like Charley Varrick.