Themes: Flight of the Innocent, Police Corruption, Rape & Sexual Abuse
Main Cast: Yvette Mimieux, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Carradine, Frederic Cook, Severn Darden
Release Year: 1976
Country: US
Run Time: 94 minutes
Plot
Yvette Mimieux delivers a sensitive, nuanced performance in a role that could have easily spread into a cheap exploitation turn in Jackson County Jail. Mimieux plays advertising executive Dinah Hunter, who leaves Los Angeles and a promising career after she discovers her lover has been cheating on her. Determined to start fresh in New York City, she gets into her car and heads east. Picking up some young hitchhikers along the way, she ends up stranded in an out-of-the-way western town after being beaten up and having her car stolen. Thrown into the local jailhouse on trumped up charges, she finds herself at the mercy of a psychopathic guard who further beats her and then rapes her. Dinah kills the jailkeeper and goes on the lam with fellow jailhouse inmate and down-home radical Coley Blake (Tommy Lee Jones). The sheriff's department engages the couple in a wild car chase through a parade commemorating the United States' Bicentennial, as Dinah and Coley try to break free to the open road. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Howard Hesseman - David; John Lawlor - Deputy Burt; Mary Woronov - Pearl; Britt Leach - Dan Oldum; Betty Thomas - Waitress; Patrice Rohmer - Cassie Anne; Royce D. Applegate; Dick Armstrong; Beverly Hope Atkinson; Marcie Barkin - Girl in Restaurant; Mark Carlton - Highway Patrolman; Cliff Emmich - Mr. Bigelow; Nan Martin - Allison; Amparo Mimieux - Poquita; Nancy Lee Noble; Jack O'Leary - Officer Blake; Gus Peters - Melon Man Shaw; Charles W. Young; M. James Arnett - Highway Patrolman; Ira Miller - Drunk Man; Hal Needham - Chief of Fallsburg Police; Arthur Wong Ngok Tai - Cook; Susan Batson; Michael Hilkene - Vincent Lepardo; Richard Lockmiller - Officer Jessie; Ed Marshall - Mr. Blight
Credit
Michael McCloskey - Art Director, Cornelia McNamara - Costume Designer, Richard Schor - First Assistant Director, Michael Miller - Director, Caroline Biggerstaff - Editor, Caroline Ferriol - Editor, Roger Corman - Executive Producer, Murphy Dunne - Composer (Music Score), Loren Newkirk - Composer (Music Score), Leigh Mitchell - Makeup, Willy Kurant - Cinematographer, Bruce Logan - Cinematographer, Richard Schor - Production Manager, Jeff Begun - Producer, Roger Corman - Producer, Bill Kaplan - Sound/Sound Designer, M. James Arnett - Stunts Coordinator, Michael Miller - Screenwriter, Donald E. Stewart - Screenwriter
