Simply one of the greatest crime movies ever, and one of Lee Marvin's all-time Top Five performances. (Some of the others:
The Big Heat,
The Big Red One,
Death Hunt.) I wrote about it
here a few years ago, when it was run on TCM. They sent me a real nice widescreen VHS screener. And now it's on DVD, and in recognition of that, Charles Taylor has written a fantastic
piece in the
New York Observer, making many points I had no idea about until I checked out the commentary track on the DVD. Read the essay, then go buy the movie. You won't be sorry.
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