Andrew's Video Vault: Revenge Night

Point Blank and Hit Man, plus Midnight Heat, Thu., July 9, 8 p.m., free, Andrew's Video Vault, The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., armcinema25.com

by Molly Eichel

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Published: Jul 8, 2009

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Lee Marvin is an absolute badass, so he's the perfect fit for mono-monikered killing machine Walker in John Boorman's '60s noir Point Blank. After being cheated out of $93,000 and left for dead by his wife and partner, Walker doesn't want revenge — he wants his money. He's got the Terminator's unstoppability, not unlike Tyrone Tackett (Bernie Casey) of Hit Man, a blaxploitation reworking of Get Carter about a man who'll stop at nothing to avenge his brother's mysterious death. Hit Man also features an early role for a woman who can hold her own in a revenge thriller — Pam Grier.

 

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