Directed by Phil Karlson
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Legend Films)
Lurid southern melodrama from the makers of Walking Tall. This time Joe Dan Baker is a gambler who ends up on the wrong road in the middle of the night. He beats a police officer to death and is sent to prison, but he claims it was self defense. It's hard sympathize with his plight after seeing what he did to the cop. In prison, he makes friends with the mafia, and they help him get revenge after release. Filled with over-the-top violence, this is audience manipulation at its nadir, though I was probably rooting for the wrong guy.
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