Town barber Dexter Miles is surprised to overhear, while cutting the hair of police chief Vance Corgan, that the body of a woman he murdered a few days before has been recovered. He had hope that the body would not be found until spring.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Malcolm McDowell | ... | Dexter Miles | |
| Jeremy Ratchford | ... | Sheriff Corgan | |
| Garwin Sanford | ... | Agent Crawley | |
| Brenda James | ... | Sally | |
| Paul Jarrett | ... | Everett | |
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Erin Wright | ... | Jewels |
| Philip Granger | ... | Levi | |
| C. Ernst Harth | ... | Buffalo | |
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John Destry | ... | Cecil |
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David Abbott | ... | Halstrom |
| Arnie Walters | ... | Paddy | |
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Ralph Alderman | ... | Farley |
| Vince Murdocco | ... | Agent Rayner | |
| Gary Hetherington | ... | Jim | |
| Michael Kopsa | ... | Father Stiffler | |
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When the perfect murder is foiled by an unexpected twist and darkness descends on a small Alaskan town, a madman's hunger for blood grows in this thriller from director Michael Bafaro. As a blanket of darkness settles over Revelstoke, AK, for a period of 24 hours, local barber Dexter Miles and the rest of the citizens realize that winter's chill is soon to follow. No one would suspect a man like Dexter Miles to be a cold-blooded killer, but when Dexter overhears the sheriff mention that the body of Lucy Waters has been discovered, he quickly realizes that his dark secret is about to break wide open. Having only murdered Lucy a few days prior, Dexter had hoped that authorities wouldn't discover her body until the spring thaw. Now, as the big-city detectives cloaked in the darkness of the Alaskan winter arrive to investigate the murder, Dexter once again feels the thrill of the kill -- and he's starting to like it.
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Levi Gansby: A domes... a domestic what?
Chief Vance Corgan: A fight? A quarrel?
'Buffalo' Sedwick: No, we was just drinkin', y'know, bein' off-time and all. And we just gotta little outta sorts, y'know?
Levi Gansby: We tripped - that's all, we just tripped.
Chief Vance Corgan: Is that the truth, Buffalo? Did ya trip?
'Buffalo' Sedwick: Yeah, we tripped when we found the body cause, y'know, it scared us pretty good.
Chief Vance Corgan: So, you didn't see anything else? Just the body?
'Buffalo' Sedwick: No, we... we just... we just saw the body. I mean, well, I mean, uh, there ...
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Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (as P. Tchaicovsky)
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Toward the end of the film when the chief is shot in the back, we see that the pellets exit his abdomen. However, while he is laying the table int he coroner's lab, there is no such wound. See more »Quotes
Chief Vance Corgan: So, did you two lovebirds have a little domestic dispute?Levi Gansby: A domes... a domestic what?
Chief Vance Corgan: A fight? A quarrel?
'Buffalo' Sedwick: No, we was just drinkin', y'know, bein' off-time and all. And we just gotta little outta sorts, y'know?
Levi Gansby: We tripped - that's all, we just tripped.
Chief Vance Corgan: Is that the truth, Buffalo? Did ya trip?
'Buffalo' Sedwick: Yeah, we tripped when we found the body cause, y'know, it scared us pretty good.
Chief Vance Corgan: So, you didn't see anything else? Just the body?
'Buffalo' Sedwick: No, we... we just... we just saw the body. I mean, well, I mean, uh, there ...
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Well you might think me partial because my girlfriend is in this movie...but I know a bad movie when I see one, and this isn't one of them.
It' engaging from the very beginning. You immediately care about the characters and you feel very much for them as they progress through the story. Malcom Macdowell plays...well Malcom Macdowell, and it's a role made exactly for him. Malcom Macdowell really could be a murderous barber with a knack for charming woman. In fact, the entire movie is perfectly cast. The lines that each delivers, are lines that seem only that actor could deliver.
"Come over here Jewel...I've got a nice big sink to do you in!"
In short, it's believable, funny, engaging and most of all, entertaining. You come away smiling.
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