A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local cowboy who is hired to work on the film.
Acting
Barbara Loden's final performance, achingly raw and real.
Direction
The birth of 'Alan Smithee' — director's official ghost.
Director
Alan Smithee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Jud Taylor was so unhappy with studio cuts that he invented 'Alan Smithee' — cinema's most famous pseudonym.
Barbara Loden died of cancer two years later; this ghost of a performance became her elegy.
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