CHARLEY VARRICK (1973). Very good Don Siegel film with Sharecropper Walter Matthau supplementing his income with occasional bank robberies, usually in low amounts. The one that opens the film nets him and his partner (Andrew Robinson from DIRTY HARRY and HELLRAISER) close to a million and the realization that it's Mafia money. Fine turns by WM, AR, Sheree North, John Vernon and especially Joe Don Baker as the courtly well spoken and sadistic Hitman. ****
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