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Lee Marvin: Point Blank (2013)

by Dwayne Epstein(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1936182408 (ISBN13: 9781936182404)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Schaffner Press, Inc.

review 1: Lee Marvin was known not just as a great character actor but a great actor, period. Whether he was playing a psychopathic killer in such cult greats as Point Blank or The Killers, western bad guys in classics like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance or Commancheros, drunken gunslingers as in Cat Ballou, or tough soldiers as in The Big Red One or The Dirty Dozen. He could give the smallest part interest or blow other actors off the screen in a meaty part. Epstein's book is a long overdue account of both his life and tempestuous career that will have any fan rushing to look up DVDs of his lesser known or unseen classics. - BH.
review 2: Before Dwayne Epstein's generally fine biography of movie icon Lee Marvin, all that was available was a fairly well-researched ... morebut obnoxiously self-impressed and over-written book by Donald Zec. Epstein does a good job of describing Marvin's career and personal demons, though the roots of the latter seem still a bit obscure by book's end. Certainly the horrors of real war and conflicting relations with his parents are enough to explain, in broad strokes, what drove Marvin toward alcoholic self-destruction, but the core of a man's pain is probably bound to be hidden, no matter how thoroughly explored. At any rate, Epstein has done a very workmanlike job of explaining Marvin's appeal and his life, and the personal information gained from letters and interviews from his family are of particular value. less

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