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Thumbing his way cross-country to L.A., club pianist Al Roberts (Tom Neal) gladly took a lift in the desert from amiable gambler Haskell (Edmund MacDonald). After his ride succumbed to a heart attack, Roberts opted to bury him, and help himself to car and wallet. His next bad move was to pick up hard-looking hitcher Vera (Ann Savage)-as fateful coincidence would soon steep him in a deadly con game. Seedy, shot-on-a-shoestring noir staple from Edgar G. Ulmer also stars Claudia Drake, Tim Ryan. 68 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; bonus documentary "Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen" (2004); featurettes; theatrical trailer.

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The creators of Friday the 13th and Child's Play spin the chilling tale of a rehabilitated serial killer and an attractive female neighbor who seems strangely obsessed with him.

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Lifelong ranch hand Ross Bodine decides cowpunching is no kind of life. So he and a raw cowboy half his age rob a bank to get the cash each needs to improve his lot. An indignant posse is soon in pursuit. Filmmaker Blake Edwards made his name with The Pink Panther and other comedies, but he also showed great skill in other genres with the thriller Experiment in Terror, the drama Days of Wine and Roses and this nuanced paean to the West. In performances perfectly matching Edwards' balance of rowdy comedy and hardscrabble period realism, William Holden and Ryan O'Neal play the fugitive saddlebums, with Holden drawing special praise. "As he grows older, he grows better like a great old wine. All the reverberations from the previous roles are beginning to sound" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).