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Entries Tagged as 'Walter Mattheau'

Charley Varrick (1973, Don Siegel)

April 18th, 2006 No Comments

Walter Matthau hated Charley Varrick. He must have been stuck in a contract or something. It’s understandable why he did, however. Matthau’s whole image is one of the likable curmudgeon. Varrick casts him as a gum-chewing (for that Matthau effect) bank robber… who doesn’t do it because he needs the money, but because crop dusting […]