MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Arthur Penn
Genres: Drama
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All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur_Penn's Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (E._G._Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder (Marlon_Brando) manages to keep the peace in Tarl, but the situation starts to fester one Saturday when news filters in that wild child Bubber Reeves (Robert_Redford) has jumped prison. Bubber's impending arrival arouses hostility among Tarl's citizens, such as Edwin Stewart (Robert_Duvall), who believes that Bubber will come after him to settle an old score, and Damon Puller (Richard_Bradford), who, between grope sessions with Edwin's wife Emily (Janice_Rule), uses Bubber as an excuse to terrorize black residents. As the atmosphere heats up, Calder wants to keep Bubber alive, and he convinces Bubber's wife Anna (Jane_Fonda) and her lover, Val's son Jake (James_Fox), to find Bubber and coax him into surrender. Val's fear that Bubber will kill his son, however, sparks a long confrontation that leaves rational law and order pummeled into the ground by the town's ignorant cruelty. Lucia Bozzola, Rovi


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