One morning, hit men Charlie (Lee Marvin) and Lee (Clu Gulager) enter a school for the blind and terrorize the principal until she reveals the whereabouts of a teacher, Johnny North (John Cassavetes).
There are plenty of notable things about this movie, not least of which is the cast. Beyond the three mentioned above, you have Ronald Reagan as a mob boss and Angie Dickinson. Have you ever seen Reagan play a nasty villain who likes to slap the ladies? Not until you see this. Also notable is the made-for-TV status (even if it fell through) and the direction of Don Siegel.
Most interesting is the continuity of the source material. Hemingway's short story is just that -- very short, focusing mainly on the killing of one man. In the 1946 Robert Siodmak version, we get what happened before the killing, and here we get what happened after. If it was not for the twenty year time change and new cast, these stories could actually go together and be less of a remake and more of a sequel.
There are plenty of notable things about this movie, not least of which is the cast. Beyond the three mentioned above, you have Ronald Reagan as a mob boss and Angie Dickinson. Have you ever seen Reagan play a nasty villain who likes to slap the ladies? Not until you see this. Also notable is the made-for-TV status (even if it fell through) and the direction of Don Siegel.
Most interesting is the continuity of the source material. Hemingway's short story is just that -- very short, focusing mainly on the killing of one man. In the 1946 Robert Siodmak version, we get what happened before the killing, and here we get what happened after. If it was not for the twenty year time change and new cast, these stories could actually go together and be less of a remake and more of a sequel.