In this Depression-era tale, Calef McKinney, traveling from Michigan to California, stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she's married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.
Direction
Meyer's lurid eye applied to actual drama, surprisingly.
Acting
Hal Hopper's Sidney: drunk, violent, weirdly magnetic.
Director
Russ Meyer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Meyer adapted this from a novel by Raymond Friday Locke, one of his rare literary sources—he usually wrote his own scripts.
This was Meyer's attempt at mainstream legitimacy after Lorna; critics were confused, audiences wanted more nudity. He listened to audiences.
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