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IMDb rating 6.5
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Critic rating 6.3

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Critic Peter Bradshaw
rated 10

...an extremely lairy and tasty piece of work in which Richard Burton gave one of his best, most lip-smackingly gruesome performances...

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic Leslie Felperin
rated 6

...sometimes a seemingly unprepossessing genre film comes along that has finer qualities than you would expect. Such is the case here.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic Simon Abrams
rated 5

...Fairbrass and Russo (...) make you want to stay invested in their respective characters, even when it’s obvious that their stories cannot end well.

Read full review at Roger Ebert
Critic Kim Newman
rated 8

Burton is truly creepy in a fascinating in-depth performance...

Read full review at Empire

Cast & Crew

Michael Tuchner
Director
Joss Ackland
As Edgar Lowis
Ian McShane
As Wolfe Lissner
Richard Burton
As Vic Dakin
Nigel Davenport
As Bob Matthews
Donald Sinden
As Gerald Draycott
T. P. McKenna
As Frank Fletcher

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Villain include Mean Streets, Chinatown, In the Heat of the Night, Scorpio (1973), French Connection II, The Friends of Eddie Coyle.

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Villain was released in theaters on May 26, 1971.