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Yvette Mimieux, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Carradine, Frederic Cook, Severn Darden ... see more see more... , Howard Hesseman , John Lawlor , Mary Woronov , Britt Leach , Betty Thomas , Patrice Rohmer , Royce D. Applegate , Dick Armstrong , Beverly Hope Atkinson , Marcie Barkin , Mark Carlton , Cliff Emmich , Nan Martin , Amparo Mimieux , Nancy Lee Noble , Jack O'Leary , Gus Peters , Charles W. Young , M. James Arnett , Ira Miller , Hal Needham , Arthur Wong Ngok Tai , Susan Batson , Michael Hilkene , Richard Lockmiller , Ed Marshall , Lisa Copeland

Yvette Mimieux delivers a sensitive, nuanced performance in a role that could have easily spread into a cheap exploitation turn in Jackson County Jail. Mimieux plays advertising executive Dinah Hunter... read more read more..., who leaves Los Angeles and a promising career after she discovers her lover has been cheating on her. Determined to start fresh in New York City, she gets into her car and heads east. Picking up some young hitchhikers along the way, she ends up stranded in an out-of-the-way western town after being beaten up and having her car stolen. Thrown into the local jailhouse on trumped up charges, she finds herself at the mercy of a psychopathic guard who further beats her and then rapes her. Dinah kills the jailkeeper and goes on the lam with fellow jailhouse inmate and down-home radical Coley Blake (Tommy Lee Jones). The sheriff's department engages the couple in a wild car chase through a parade commemorating the United States' Bicentennial, as Dinah and Coley try to break free to the open road. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 34 min.

Directed by: Michael Miller

Release Date: December 31, 1976

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DVD Release Date: September 26, 2000

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  • saltersheppard
    November 10, 2007
    saltersheppard
    Saw this in the early 70's. Liked it. Didn't have the money to get in at the drive in...so I drove around back. The owner of the drive in came back to the fence and told me to come in...no charge. Enjoyed the film. Y.M. looked great through out.

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John Beifuss
September 2, 2011
John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

A woman's American odyssey becomes a road trip from hell, making her a victim of and then a fugitive from a corrupt political justice and law enforcement system that might as well be an extension of t... Full Review

Scott Weinberg
January 8, 2006
Scott Weinberg, DVDTalk.com

Bucks the b-movie conventions by forsaking simple car chases and explosions for a surprisingly insightful little tale of rape and escape. Full Review

March 5, 2009
Variety

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Vincent Canby
May 9, 2005
Vincent Canby, New York Times

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Emanuel Levy
July 26, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Geoff Andrew
June 24, 2006
Geoff Andrew, Time Out

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