Charley Varrick
What can American cinema do? How to explain its undeniable role in the history of cinema? Indissociable from geopolitics in the twentieth century, this national preponderance for the industrial art demands that we regularly linger on it to see what it is all about - in terms of the present as much as the past.
A man, his wife and their friend stage a brutal bank robbery without realizing that they are robbing the mafia.
Don Siegel
In 1946, Don Siegel, directed his first feature film, the film noir The Verdict. Over the next few years, films such as The Cell 11 Uprising, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Public Enemy were made. During the 1960s, he directed such films as The Lurkers of the Plains, a western starring Elvis Presley and Close Range. In 1968, Don Siegel met Clint Eastwood, with whom he worked on five films and was both commercially and critically successful; this series of films included the whodunit A Sheriff in New York, Sierra Torrid and The Prey, a cynical film set against the backdrop of the Civil War, and again a whodunit with Dirty Harry. In 1976, he shoots the western The Last of the Giants, the only personal collaboration with John Wayne and the swan song of the actor, then works with Clint Eastwood one last time in 1979 for Evader of Alcatraz. In 1982, he directed his last film, Jinxed!.
