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Director:
Writer:
Bud Shrake (written by)
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Release Date:
2 May 1974 (Sweden) more
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Tagline:
He was a good kid, but a rotten bandit. more
Plot:
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs... more | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Dennis Hopper ... Bickford Waner
Warren Oates ... Reese Ford

Peter Boyle ... Preacher Bob

Ben Johnson ... Sheriff 'Mean John' Simpson

Lee Purcell ... Molly Ford
Janice Rule ... Janet Conforto
Ralph Waite ... Drummer
Clifton James ... Mr. Hendricks
José Torvay ... Old Coyote (as Jose Torvay)
Mary Jackson ... Mrs. Evans
Jay Varela ... Mendoza
Jack Starrett ... Tough Guy (as Claude Ennis Starrett Jr.)
Warren Finnerty ... Wills
Owen Orr ... Train robber #1
Richard Rust ... Train robber #2
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Dime Box (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
100 min
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | Iceland:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG
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Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Reese Ford: Money don't make no difference. You can live a whole beautiful life inside your head. A lot of these folks, they can't do that. more

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This movie made me smile, 13 September 2005
Author: zap644 from Arizona

The first half of this seemed kind of slow to me and a couple of times I only watched about 10 minutes of it when it came on IFC, telling myself I'd rather watch it all the way through from the beginning.

I was glad I did. Bickner (Hopper) is a godless, but sincere former outlaw trying to live a straight life under tough conditions and a mean sheriff in a small town where the factory turned out to be his only hope for work.

Though I thought it a bit slow at first, about halfway through, I found I was into it and the ending actually made me smile.

My favorite line is easily Hopper's when he tells Warren Oates, "A man's gotta kill his own snakes.", which I found to have meaning on multiple levels.

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