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Lee Marvin: John Boorman
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Hell In the Pacific ($13.46) -- Point Blank is not on DVD yet, this film was the second of those two that Marvin made with director John Boorman (Deliverance). WWII: American soldier and Japanese soldier (Toshiro Mifune) stranded on some deserted Pacific island alone together. Wild.
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With a rugged torso, a shock of white hair, and a slablike face marked by a mashed nose and piercing eyes, Lee Marvin was a startling, wired big-screen presence. He tore through Boorman’s “Point Blank” (1967) with a leopardlike gait that resembled a tuned-up version of John Wayne’s. This first-person documentary is worth seeing just for the tingling moment in which Boorman shows Marvin striding down a corridor and says, “Walker, I named him.” Boorman demonstrates how much he learned from his star and friend about making fierce and conflicted emotions palpable. He traces the roots of Marvin’s often menacing dynamism to the scars he suffered as a marine on Saipan in the Second World War. Boorman is appealingly direct; he casually trashes the famous palimony suit brought against Marvin without stopping the film dead.
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Marvin was rarely seen in films during the late '50s, with only a performance in 1958's The Missouri Traveler squeezed into his busy TV schedule. He returned to cinema in 1961 opposite John Wayne in The Comancheros, and starred again with the Duke in the John Ford classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance a year later.
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In the 1960s, Marvin was given prominent co-starring roles such as The Comancheros (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962; Marvin played Liberty Valance) and Donovan's Reef (1963), all with John Wayne. Marvin ... guest-starred in Combat! "The Bridge at Chalons" (Episode 34, Season 2, Mission 1), and The Twilight Zone episodes #72 The Grave (1961), in which he played a fearless gunman investigating the haunted grave of a man who swore to get revenge on him, and #122 Steel (1963), in which he played a former boxer who gets into the ring with a boxing robot.
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