Movies

January, 1974

Among directors of action drama, Hollywood veteran Don Siegel can claim credit for such movies as Dirty Harry and The Beguiled, and he also helped launch the career of Sam Peckinpah. Siegel's 29th film, Charley Varrick, is a virtually flawless work of its kind--tough, unsentimental, fast-moving entertainment, played to the hilt. If anyone in the movie world still cares, it is also covertly fascist in its endorsement of violence and the view that moral values are irrelevant as long as the right g...