Point Blank (1967 film)

Point Blank
The poster features an image of Lee Marvin's face beside a hand holding a gun with ripples of white radiating from the gun barrel. The image is tinted in various areas with shades of green, red, and blue. The tagline reads, "There are only two kinds of people in his up-tight world: his victims and his women. And sometimes you can't tell them apart."
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Boorman
Screenplay by
Based onThe Hunter
1963 novel
by Richard Stark
Produced by
StarringLee Marvin
CinematographyPhilip H. Lathrop
Edited byHenry Berman
Music byJohnny Mandel
Production
company
Judd Bernard-Irwin Winkler Production
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • August 30, 1967 (1967-08-30) (SF premiere)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.5 million[1]
Box office$9 million (rentals)[2]

Point Blank is a 1967 American crime film directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin, co-starring Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll O'Connor, and adapted from the 1963 crime noir pulp novel The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark.[3] Boorman directed the film at Marvin's request and Marvin played a central role in the film's development. The film grossed over $9 million in theatrical rentals in 1967 and has since gone on to become a cult classic, eliciting praise from such critics as film historian David Thomson.

In 2016, Point Blank was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry.[4]

  1. ^ Thomas, Kevin (Jan 16, 1968). "CHARTOFF AND WINKLER: Entrepreneurs of the Offbeat Film Two Entrepreneurs of Offbeat Movies". Los Angeles Times. p. d1.
  2. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, 8 January 1969 p 15. Please note this figure is a rental accruing to distributors.
  3. ^ Point Blank at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  4. ^ "With "20,000 Leagues", the National Film Registry Reaches 700". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-05-21.