Like Pault8 I too am eager to own this excellent film on DVD. It's a shame the much inferior Mickey Rourke remake is available but not the Lee Marvin 1967 original. This is a film, along with John Sturges' The Satan Bug (1965) and Don Siegel's Charley Varrick (1973), which I will definitely own on DVD as soon as they come available (hopefully in their original aspect ratio). So come on respective film companies...get working! E.J. Felici, Malta.
shareI agree. I've been hoping to see this released for several years now. I only saw it once about 8 years ago and have never found it anywhere since then.
shareSomeone, somewhere, release this movie!
shareFunny this, The Satan Bug and Charley Verrick plus Point Blank are exactly the three underrated films I also want to see on DVD. I hope we won´t have to wait too long. It bugs me there is much crap available on DVD and so many classics not.
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Hi
The Satan Bug is available in Widescreen on DVD in Norway. If you want it, I could buy the title from the local store and mail it to you. By the way, your player must be able to handle Region 2.
Kind regards, Paul
It's coming on July 5th!
http://news.yahoo.c om/news?tmpl=story&a mp;u=/nm/20050324/fi lm_nm/film_noir_dc_1
The Mel Gibson film Payback is the remake of Point Blank. Both written by Richard Stark aka Donald Westlake. What I hated about both films is that they can never get the main character name straight. In the book his name is Parker, in the Gibson film its Porter, in Point Blank its Walker. Its one word, get it right.
shareWestlake didn't want the film characters to have the name Parker. In fact, when Gibson tried to call Payback, "Parker", Westlake said "only over my dead body".
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