Biographies of beloved, Best Actor-winning character actor Lee Marvin are surprisingly few and far between. Aside from memoirs from his first and second wives, the first and only other full biography written by an outsider (Donald Zec) was published in 1980, when Marvin was still alive and working. There’s certainly room for another sustained examination of his life, but Dwayne Epstein’s Lee Marvin: Point Blank isn’t anything close to definitive. A sloppily edited assemblage of interviews, it’s first-draft oral history in which readers with considerable patience can find anecdotal gems.
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