His Hollywood breakthrough came with Point Blank (1967), starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson. Lee came over to me and said, “Are you in trouble?” So, they said, “Go and make it very cheap with unknowns” Burt came to me off the back of three cancelled TV shows. When I went back to Los Angeles to work on the post-production of Point Blank, the hotel that I stayed in had just been built. John Boorman lived in Annamoe, County Wicklow for almost 50 years, but put his home up for sale in 2022.