I haven’t seen a lot of Lee Marvin films, but he is awesome in this. I’d love to see more if him, especially when he was younger. I didn’t expect this to be as trippy and as dreamlike as it ended up becoming. There were times I had trouble following what was happening and reminded me of films like INHERENT VICE or THE BIG SLEEP, but I expect that has to do with the complexity of the dream-like moments. Henry Berman’s editing is crazy good. The use of silence throughout the film is also so powerful. John Boorman is a stellar director and you can see some of the weirdness he’d bring to his future films like ZARDOZ ruminating in ideas found here. This also feels so inherently Hitchcockian, it feels like he should have made this film. I also love that Archie Bunker is in this film briefly. I had never seen Carroll O'Connor in any other role before except for IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT.
