Charley Varrick (1973)

From action auteur Don Siegel comes Charlie Varrick. The story is about a group of small time hoods who rob a small town New Mexico bank and discover that instead of the modest score they were anticipating, they wound up with 3/4's of a million dollars. You see this bank was being used by the mob to launder money and they just happened to catch it on the right day. Now forces from the mob, the bank, and local law enforcement are after them and its up to their leader Walter Matthau to outsmart them. Though it has some slow stretches Charlie Varrick is a smart 70's crime film that it really is worth staying to the end for. ***1/2