The begining is a carefully crafted chunk of tough-guy fiction; a sorehead just out of the pen, dressed in regulation dark suit and white socks, returns to his hometown, the site of his teenage football heroics, to square off with the sheriff who sent him to prison on drug charges and who is now keeping company with his former girlfriend and five-year-old son. The movie is especially on-target about the carousing camaraderie of these rural Texans. However, after the stupidly motivated political assassination, the movie simplifies the conflict for us, makes things easy on our sympathies, and encourages us to sit back and cheer the car crashes and carnage. Timothy Bottoms, Bo Hopkins, and Susan George; directed by Jack Starrett. (1976) — Duncan Shepherd
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