Another of Patton's picks, Charley Varrick, is running this month on comcast OnDemand. Here are but a few reasons why you should check it out wherever possible:
1. Walter Matthau stars in a role apparently written for Clint Eastwood
2. The plot is surprisingly similar to No Country For Old Men, complete with Joe Don Baker in the Chigurh role (though regrettably not with that haircut).
3. To hear the line from John Vernon that – as hard as this may be to believe – Tarantino famously ripped off for Pulp Fiction.
4. Matthau beds a hot, penthouse-dwelling blonde simply by projecting sheer Matthauness.
5. There's a mob bank robbery at the beginning, just like The Dark Knight!
6. Finale = cropduster chaos
7. If I remember correctly, Vernon at one point tells Matthau that “fat, drunk and jowly is no way to go through life”
