Walker strides through Los Angeles with the steel-eyed stare of a stone-cold killer, or perhaps a ghost. Betrayed by his wife and best friend, who gun him down point-blank and leave him for dead after a successful heist, Walker blasts his way up the criminal food chain in a quest for revenge. Did he survive the shooting or return from the grave, or is it all a dying dream? The question is left in the air in John Boorman's modern film noir, a brutal revenge thriller based on Richard Stark's novel "The Hunter", set in the impersonal concrete and steel canyons of Los Angeles and eerily empty cells of Alcatraz. Walker kills without remorse, guided by shadowy "informant" Keenan Wynn, whose own agenda is carefully concealed, and assisted by Angie Dickinson, as he desperately searches for someone, anyone, who can just give him his money. But if Walker is an extreme incarnation of the revenge-driven noir antihero, the modern syndicate has been transformed into a world of paper jungles and corporate businessmen, an alienating concept to the two-fisted, gun-wielding gangster. Boorman creates a hard, austere look for the film and fragments the story with flashes of painful memory, grafting the New Wave onto old genres with confidence and style. Haunting and brutal, "Point Blank" remains one of the most distinctive crime thrillers ever made.
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Lloyd Bochner | Frederick Carter |
Carroll O'Connor | Brewster |
Keenan Wynn | Yost |
Angie Dickinson | Chris |
Lee Marvin | Walker |
Michael Strong | Stegman |
Michael Strong (II) | Big John Stegman |
John Vernon | Mal Reese |
John Cusack | Martin Q. Blank |
Sharon Acker | Lynne |
Minnie Driver | Debi Newberry |
James Sikking | Hired Gun |
Alan Arkin | Dr. Oatman |
Sandra Warner | Waitress |
Dan Aykroyd | Grocer |
Roberta Haynes | Mrs. Carter |
Joan Cusack | Marcella |
Kathleen Freeman | First Citizen |
Hank Azaria | Steven Lardner |
Victor Creatore | Carter's Man |
K. Todd Freeman | Kenneth McCullers |
Lawrence Hauben | Car Salesman |
Jeremy Piven | Paul Spericki |
Susan Holloway | Girl Customer |
Mitch Ryan | Mr. Bart Newberry |
Michael Cudlitz | Bob Destepello |
Sid Haig | 1st Penthouse Lobby Guard |
Benny Urquidez | Felix La PuBelle |
Michael Bell | 2nd Penthouse Lobby Guard |
Duffy Taylor | Ultimart Carl |
Priscilla Boyd | Receptionist |
Audrey Kissel | Arlene |
John McMurtry | Messenger |
Carlos Jacott | Ken |
Ron Walters | Young Man in Apartment |
Brian Powell | Husky Man |
George Strattan | Young Man in Apartment |
Nicole Rogell | Carter's Secretary |
Rico Cattani | Reese's Guard |
Roland La Starza | Reese's Guard (as Roland LaStarza) |
Paul Bradley | Conventioneer |
Lauren Bacall | Herself - Actress in Film Clip from 'The Cobweb' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Casey Brandon | Dancer (uncredited) |
George Bruggeman | Conventioneer |
Jerry Catron | Minor Role (uncredited) |
George Calliga | Conventioneer |
Bonnie Dewberry | Dancer (uncredited) |
Barbara Feldon | Girl in TV commercial (uncredited) |
Dick Cherney | Spectator at Death Scene |
Carey Foster | Dancer (uncredited) |
Bud Cokes | Conventioneer |
Bill Hickman | Reese's Guard on Balcony (uncredited) |
Chuck Hicks | Guard (uncredited) |
Richard Elmore | Conventioneer |
John Kerr | Himself - Actor in Film Clip from 'The Cobweb' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Dave Kujawski | Fairfax (uncredited) |
Duke Fishman | Bar Patron |
Karen Lee | Waitress (uncredited) |
Joseph Mell | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Stu Gardner | Soul SInger |
Andrew Orapeza | Desk Clerk (uncredited) |
Rudy Germane | Conventioneer |
Cosmo Sardo | Conventioneer (uncredited) |
Kenneth Gibson | Conventioneer |
Jeffrey Sayre | Spectator at Death Scene (uncredited) |
Felix Silla | Bellhop (uncredited) |
Guy Way | Bill - Brewster's Chauffeur (uncredited) |
George Hoagland | Conventioneer |
Ted White | Football Player (uncredited) |
Harvey Karels | Conventioneer |
Louis Whitehill | Policeman (uncredited) |
Albert Brenner | Art Director |
Joseph La Cava | Conventioneer |
Roseann Williams | Dancer (uncredited) |
Louise Lane | Conventioneer |
George W. Davis | Art Director |
Johnny Mandel | Composer |
Ethelreda Leopold | Conventioneer |
Philip H. Lathrop | Cinematographer |
Philo McCullough | Conventioneer |
Henry Berman | Editor |
F. Keogh Gleason | Set Decorator |
Monty O'Grady | Conventioneer |
Henry Grace | Set Decorator |
Margo Weintz | Custome Designer |
Murray Pollack | Conventioneer |
Sydney Guilaroff | hair styles |
Anthony Redondo | Conventioneer |
William Tuttle | Makeup Artist |
Leoda Richards | Conventioneer |
John Truwe | Makeup Artist (uncredited) |
Clark Ross | Conventioneer |
Edward Woehler | Unit Production Manager |
Al Jennings | Assistant Director |
Mickey Lewis | assistant director (uncredited) |
Christopher Seitz | assistant director (uncredited) |
Norman Stevans | Conventioneer |
Matty Azzarone | leadman (uncredited) |
Karen Stride | Waitress |
Frank Wesselhoff | painter (uncredited) |