Rolling Thunder director John Flynn helms a lean, mean, hard-hitting crime picture based on the novel by Richard Stark. When a crook (Robert Duvall) gets released from prison, he’ll grab his girl (Karen Black) and his old partner (Joe Don Baker) and set out to systematically dismantle the crime syndicate that killed his brother. But nobody plays rougher than The Outfit when somebody messes with their business. Featuring Robert Ryan as the mob boss and Joanna Cassidy as his trophy wife, plus recognizable character actors Timothy Carey, Richard Jaeckel, Elisha Cook Jr., and more.
“The Outfit is a classy action picture, very well directed and acted, about a gangster’s revenge on the mob for the death of his brother. An outline of the plot would make it sound pretty routine, but what makes the picture superior is its richness of detail. We don’t care much about what happens; the same things are always happening in action movies, and when you’ve seen one car burst into flames you’ve seen them all. But the people in this movie are uncommonly interesting.” – Roger Ebert
