Directed by Robert Mulligan
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)
Jason Miller is a small-time hood known as the "key man", since he has the keys to the LA warehouses used for stolen merchandise. He answers to a higher authority, supposedly the mob, and they quietly decide he is expendable. Not sure of their intentions but suspecting the worst, Miller becomes paranoid and flees to a mountain cabin with his girlfriend Linda Haynes, in another excellent performance. Bo Hopkins is a creepy cowboy hired to follow him, and maybe more. It takes its time to fully explore and develop the characters, which pays off in the violent, downbeat ending. An unsung 70s classic comparable to Chinatown and The Conversation.
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