Movies Watched -- Charley Varrick (1973)

Added on by C. Maoxian.

110 minute running time so about ten minutes too long … clearly inspired the Coen Brothers’ when making No Country For Old Men and mad genius Tarantino’s “getting medieval on his ass” … Walter Matthau the least sexy man in the world, but I guess they had fun with that … Joe Don Baker plays a good psychopath, slapping the ladies and telling them “he don’t sleep with whores, at least not knowingly.” It wasn’t a terrible movie, in many ways it was good, but I’m not going to put it on my Top 500 list or give it a green-go rating. There’s a rare anti-Semitic jibe where Norman Fell is called a “bright little bagel snapper.” John Farr liked it and I must have gotten the reco from him.

He says his name is Sally.

He says his name is Sally.