Point Blank (1967, directed by John Boorman)
Today is the anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest of the screen tough guys, Mr. Lee Marvin! Today’s scene that I love comes from the 1967 film, Point Blank. In this short but emotionally exhausting scene, Angie Dickinson hits Lee Marvin’s career criminal, over and over again. Marvin, for his part, barely reacts. This scene is the epitome of Lee Marvin’s mystique. He played men who only showed emotion when it was necessary. Dickinson hits Marvin to try to make him feel something but Marvin’s career criminal in beyond such concerns.
From Point Blank, here is today’s scene that I love:
Through the Shattered Lens 
I shared this clip several months ago as a look at Lee Marvin’s career – this scene is incredible, she literally was away on him for a minute and he never movies! What a great film!
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Lisa Marie Bowman, that is a great scene from a great movie. Am sure you have heard the theory that ‘Walker’ is actually dead. For me, the tell is him climbing into the freezing seawater from Alcatraz. In theory, nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz by swimming because of sharks and temperature. On the day of shooting, the stuntman wouldn’t do it because of water temperature, so Marvin did it himself.
btw, an ‘island’ is a metaphor for purgator in film and literature, i.e. “The Prisoner” “Lost” “Lord of the Flies” and many more.
Look at the scenes with Walker’s wife (Sharon Acker), where she sits and answers ‘questions’ that haven’t been asked, while Walker sits and stares into space. Just a thought, part of the fun of movies! https://medium.com/@plewis67/is-point-blank-a-ghost-story-c81174dc86c5
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He was superb in Cat Ballou and Paint Your Wagon.
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