Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether to keep the money or report it, they privately investigate the clues and unravel a decades old mystery.
Acting
Kristofferson & Williams have genuine, lived-in buddy chemistry.
Direction
Tannen builds dread from desert silence and fluorescent boredom.
Writing
Crazy-ambitious for a B-movie: rewrites American history.
Director
William Tannen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was HBO's first original feature film production, made for just $5 million.
Released in 1984, it channels post-Watergate, pre-X-Files paranoia—and weirdly predicted the JFK assassination document releases by decades.
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