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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.
Original Release
04/16/1976
US Release
04/16/1976
Cast
Name | Character |
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Yvette Mimieux | Dinah Hunter |
Tommy Lee Jones | Coley Blake |
Lisa Copeland | Girl in Commercial |
Cliff Emmich | Mr. Bigelow |
Michael Ashe | Mr. Cooper |
Edward Marshall | Mr. Blight |
Howard Hesseman | David |
Marciee Drake | Candy (David's Girlfriend) / Candy |
Nan Martin | Allison |
Betty Thomas | Waitress |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Yvette Mimieux | Dinah Hunter |
Tommy Lee Jones | Coley Blake |
Lisa Copeland | Girl in Commercial |
Cliff Emmich | Mr. Bigelow |
Michael Ashe | Mr. Cooper |
Edward Marshall | Mr. Blight |
Howard Hesseman | David |
Marciee Drake | Candy (David's Girlfriend) / Candy |
Nan Martin | Allison |
Betty Thomas | Waitress |
Ken Lawrence | Paulie (Trucker at Counter) |
Arthur Wong | Cook |
Marcie Barkin | Girl in Restaurant |
Nancy Lee Noble | Lola |
Robert Carradine | Bobby Ray |
Michael Hilkene | Vincent Lepardo |
Roy David Hagle | Ambulance Driver |
Britt Leach | Dan Oldum (Bartender) / Dan Oldum |
John Lawlor | Deputy Burt |
Severn Darden | Sheriff Dempsey |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Roger Corman | Executive Producer |
Jeff Begun | Producer |
Paul Gonsky | Producer |