Charley Varrick

Charley Varrick (1973) is a tight crime thriller directed by Don Siegel — watch it online on iFILM. Walter Matthau plays a small-time bank robber who sticks to quiet rural branches and keeps his head down. Then one job goes sideways in the worst possible way.

The bank he hits turns out to be laundering cash for the mob. Now a mob enforcer named Molly — played with cold-blooded menace by Joe Don Baker — is on his trail. The police are closing in from the other direction. His cowardly partner is useless. Varrick has to outsmart two very different enemies at once, using nothing but nerve and a quick mind.

What sets this apart from the usual early-70s caper is Matthau himself: no cool-guy posturing, just a tired, precise man doing very ugly calculations. Siegel keeps the pacing lean throughout all 111 minutes. Stream Charley Varrick online on iFILM.