Point Blank (1967)

 

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the money that was stolen from him.

Innovativingly leftfield thriller enhances its Noir plot with great style and imaginative non-linear story-telling; you may easily call it: cool."

Halliwell*: "Extremely violent gangster thriller, well shot on location and something of a cult, but with irritating pretentiousness and obscure plot points."

Maltin***1/2: "Taut thriller, ignored in 1967, but now regarded as a top film of the decade." 

Sam Whiskey (1969)

A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.

Good-natured, but sloppily handled Western comedy is mainly focused on its star, but has not much more to offer.

Halliwell (no star): "Easy-going but rather slackly handled Western."

Maltin**: "Modestly mounted, uninteresting Western wasting talents of good cast...For Western aficionados and Reynolds addicts only."

Angie Dickinson

Big Bad Mama (1974)

Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.

Dressed to Kill (1980)

A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.

Although basically a succession of brilliantly staged sequences all in homage to Hitchcock, this movie manages to deliver the shocks and to entertain with a good helping of wicked humour.

Halliwell**: "Occasionally brilliant, generally nasty suspenser clearly derived from many viewings of Psycho. Certainly not for the squeamish."

Maltin***1/2: "High-tension melodrama...Writer-director De Palma works on viewer's emotions, not logic, and maintains a fever pitch from start to finish."

Rio Bravo (1959)

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.