A man looking for his fortune in a mine decides to tempt his partner with his much younger wife. The goal? To catch them "in the act" and kill him without consequence.
Acting
Cleo Moore's dangerously naive desperation, Haas's self-directed ego trip
Direction
Haas's sweaty close-ups fetishizing his own perfidy
Production
Dusty poverty-row sets that reek of cheap ambition
Director
Hugo Haas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hugo Haas produced, directed, wrote, and starred in this — a vanity project so complete it makes Tommy Wiseau look modest.
Cleo Moore was Haas's recurring blonde muse in five films; this was their most notorious collaboration, essentially a 1950s male fantasy of being cuckolded to death.
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