Rip Torn plays a vengeful cowboy in a rodeo clown's guilt spiral. Buckle up.
A rodeo rider is killed because Cotter is too drunk to distract the raging bull.
Acting
Rip Torn simmers with barely contained rage throughout.
Practical Effects
Real rodeo footage gives dangerous authenticity to bull scenes.
Director
Paul Stanley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Paul Stanley mostly worked in television; this was his rare theatrical feature, shot on a shoestring with actual rodeo performers as extras.
Released during the last gasp of the revisionist western cycle, it bombed commercially but mirrors the era's fascination with broken American masculinity—think Lonely Are the Brave's depressed cousin.
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