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Charley Varrick

Charley Varrick

7,3 /10 (282 Votes)
1973 EN 111 min

Overview

Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.

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Release date

19/09/1973

Votes

282

Popularity

1.3

When he runs out of dumb luck, he always has genius to fall back on!

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

111 min

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John Chard

John Chard

2014-01-21

⭐ 8

You can never worry too much... ...when you got the fuzz and the mafia after you. Charley Varrick is a quality caper movie courtesy of director Don Siegel and backed up by a wonderful understated performance from Walter Matthau as Charley Varrick. Varrick along with his partners rob a small New Mexico bank, but instead of the usual decent haul they find that they have nabbed over $760.000, sadly for the boys it is mafia money that the bank was laundering. Varrick is a smart cookie and thinks it should be given back, but his young greedy partner insists that it's a chance of a lifetime…

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-06-28

⭐ 7

When a bank robbery goes wrong, “Charley” (Walter Matthau) and his friend “Harman” (Andrew Robinson) just about manage to escape with the loot, but along the way his wife “Nadine” (Jacqueline Scott) gets herself killed. These folks are meticulous at cleaning up after themselves and thinking they have eradicated all possible leads to them they return to his motor home. That’s where the next shock comes from. They’d expected a few thousand bucks. Instead, there is over $750,000 lying on the floor. “Charley” quite quickly assumes, correctly, that this isn’t legitimate money and they are in way mo…

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