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unusual facts about ''Point Blank''



Edson Luís de Lima Souto

To express their protest, movie theaters in Cinelândia announced the screening of three films: The Night of the Generals, Point Blank, and Coração de Luto (Heart of Grief).

J. T. Lindroos

He is currently best known as the co-founder and senior editor of the publishing imprint Point Blank, under which he published the first novels of Allan Guthrie and Duane Swierczynski.

Tony Rome

Other films in this genre include The Detective (1968) which also starred Sinatra as well as Point Blank (1967), Bullitt (1968), Madigan (1968), and Marlowe (1969).


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Battle of Dublin

Traynor's men in "the block" held out until artillery was brought up, under the cover of armoured cars, to bombard them at point blank range.

Bophuthatswana coup d'état of 1994

In response, Menyatsoe shot the three wounded men dead at point blank range with an R4, shouting angrily, "Who do you think you are? What are you doing in my country?"

Daniel M'Naghten

On the afternoon of 20 January the Prime Minister's private secretary, civil servant Edward Drummond, was walking towards Downing Street from Charing Cross when M'Naghten approached him from behind, drew a pistol and fired at point-blank range into his back.

Gordon Bridson

The New Zealanders continued to attack and the Kiwi rammed the submarine three times, firing at point blank range with its main 4 inch gun and a 20-mm Oerlikon mounted on its bow (acquired unofficially at Noumea for two bottles of gin).

Hugo Primozic

Hugo Primozic (16 February 1914 – 18 March 1996) was one of Germany's Sturmgeschütz (assault gun) aces during World War II and was noted for his quick reactions, clever tactical use of ground and the icy nerve which in tense situations enabled him to hold his fire until his opponent had closed to point-blank range.

John Hugh Catherwood

Advancing with the scout party to reconnoiter a group of nipa huts close to the trail, Catherwood unhesitatingly entered the open area before the huts, where his party was suddenly taken under point-blank fire and charged by approximately 20 enemy Moros coming out from inside the native huts and from other concealed positions.

Port of Tacoma protests, March 2007

Of them, one had been shot with a rubber bullet at point blank range, and another had been struck with a Taser three times as he was pinned down.

Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade

They had mounted a heavy DShK machine gun on the back of a stolen lorry, driven right to the RUC/British Army station and opened fire with tracer ammunition at the fortified base at point-blank range, when the long-range of the weapon would enable them to fire from a safe distance.

Salvatore Tessio

The original novel implies Tessio's death, but Mark Winegardner's sequel novel The Godfather Returns explains that he is executed with a gunshot at point blank range by his enforcer Nick Geraci.

Sibusiso Duma

He then shot her in the head at point blank range using the Norinco pistol he had stolen from Mqeku Zondi.

The Loneliest Planet

After a short conversation with their guide, the older man suddenly aims a Dragunov sniper rifle aggressively at Alex and Nica at point-blank range.

Threatening the President of the United States

In July 2003, the Los Angeles Times published a Sunday editorial cartoon by conservative Michael Ramirez that depicted a man pointing a gun at President Bush’s head; it was a takeoff on the 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Eddie Adams that showed South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner at point-blank range.

Vincent Ford

While in Trenchtown in the late 1970s, Marley biographer Vivien Goldman asked Ford point-blank "Was it you?" who wrote the songs.