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...Bobby will go to the hospital and have X-rays when he gets up in the morning, whatever time that may be," a club official said. "It appears he has a bruise or maybe even a charley horse above the left knee...
Last year the only high point of the Princeton weekend was the Coasters concert at the Cap and Gown Club after the game. There was lots of booze and a sweaty reminiscence into the fifties. "Poison Ivy," "Charley Brown," "Yakety Yak," and "Love Potion Number Nine" were the only songs left to sing for Harvard people after the punchless Princetonians had slushed out a 10-7 upset over the Crimson. The old Harvard fight songs just didn't have much zip after that...
With the law looming on one side, the mob moving in on the other, Charley Varrick is the definitive outside man-or, as he bills himself, "the last of the independents." As he has shown previously in Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Director Don Siegel likes the peril such a situation can hold, as well as the sort of crusty dignity it can instill. Charley Varrick is different from much of his recent work, though, in that it is a little more leisurely, relaxed and sardonic...
...bank robbery that opens the film is staged and executed with vigorous economy; no flash, just straight, brutal action. There is also a spectacular and funny showdown at the end between a hired killer (Joe Don Baker) driving a car and Charley behind the controls of a crop duster. As the car and the plane bump, sideswipe and crash into one another, the scene becomes almost a parody of the recent excesses of the chase that were encouraged by The French Connection...
...same image with which it opened, and with an especially crafty little twist. It should not diminish the viewer's surprise too much to say that Siegel takes a tangible joy in watching the last of the independents outfox the various organizations that have been causing him grief. Charley Varrick is a sort of backhanded testament to the wisdom that comes with experience...