Charley Varrick is a quality caper movie courtesy of director Don Siegel and backed up by a wonderful understated performance from Walter Matthau as Charley Varrick. Varrick along with his partners rob a small New Mexico bank, but instead of the usual decent haul they find that they have nabbed over $760,000, sadly for the boys it is mafia money that the bank was laundering. Varrick is a smart cookie and thinks it should be given back, but his young greedy partner insists that it's a chance of a lifetime. When a bank robbery goes wrong, Charley and his friend Harman manage to escape with the loot, but their troubles are only just beginning as they discover the true extent of their ill-gotten gains and become embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the mob and the law.