A young man returning home to attend a wedding hooks up with a drifter who turns out to be a violent bank robber. Before he knows it, the man finds himself involved in the robber's plans.A young man returning home to attend a wedding hooks up with a drifter who turns out to be a violent bank robber. Before he knows it, the man finds himself involved in the robber's plans.A young man returning home to attend a wedding hooks up with a drifter who turns out to be a violent bank robber. Before he knows it, the man finds himself involved in the robber's plans.
- Governor's Driver
- (as James Lovelett)
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- TriviaThis motion picture entitled Kansas (1988) was actually filmed in various locations in the American state of Kansas in the USA including Topeka, Overbrook, Edgerton, Lawrence, St. Marys and Valley Falls.
- GoofsCarnival manager says that after their current five day stay at the fair, they're headed to "AR-kan-saw City" (phonetic spelling) like the state, Arkansas. However, as any Kansan can tell you, it's pronounced "ar-KAN-sas City". Don't know why, but it is.
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Doyle Kennedy: I didn't do that bank alone. I had help. Wade Corey? The hero all you suckers have been goin' on about? He did that bank. He was my partner. Turns out he's more horseshit than hero. How do you like that for a little con?...
Nelson Nordquist: Where's the proof, Doyle? You expect me to print that?
Doyle Kennedy: Well, you go ahead and print what you like. I don't buy that shit. Newspapers and the truth... you make it up the same as the rest of us.
Nevertheless McCarthy decided because he was a romantic he'd like to try bumming rides in freight cars on the railroad maybe because you meet such interesting people. In McCarthy's case he meets an amiable Matt Dillon going home to Kansas and the small town he grew up in.
Dillon might seem amiable, but he soon enough gets McCarthy involved in a bank robbery and the two are fleeing. McCarthy has the loot and he buries it in a tree. But then on a heroic impulse he jumps in a river to save a drowning girl and the stranger is now a town hero.
In the meantime Dillon flees far enough and then turns around to get McCarthy and the money.
The tension in Kansas is whether McCarthy will be discovered as a bank robber just when things are going well for him. He's even taken interest in country girl Leslie Hope. Dillon on his return back shows what a truly sociopathic character he is with several acts of brutality.
Watching Kansas put me in mind of I Was A Fugitive From A Chain Gang and how Paul Muni got caught up in something he was really not involved in. McCarthy is a bit less innocent than Muni was. Still it was not an enviable situation.
Kansas is a well constructed film with very good tension buildup and helped by location shooting in the title state. McCarthy and Dillon acquit themselves in roles they are well type cast in.
I'd see this one when broadcast.
- bkoganbing
- May 9, 2017
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- Kansas, dos hombres, dos caminos
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,432,536
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,274,742
- Sep 25, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $2,432,536