A seedy true crime docudrama about lovers lane murders in Texarkana, Texas. Dawn Wells, TV's Mary Ann, worked a day and a half playing one of the victims. She said that they had to shoot a horse that was injured during filming and that they tried to shoot a pit bull when it broke free and was going to attack her.
With Ben Johnson just five years after winning an Oscar for The Last Picture Show and Andrew Prine.
Directed by Charles B. Pierce who made The Legend of Boggy Creek.
The murders in the movie took place in 1946. When I first saw this movie on Home Box Office as a kid in the '70's, it seemed like ancient history but it was only thirty years earlier. The people who survived the attacks and the families of the victims couldn't have been entirely pleased.
No one was ever charged with the crimes but you'll be happy to know that the guy they think did it was put away as a habitual car thief.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texarkana_Moonlight_Murders
There was new version made in 2014.
Available on Amazon Prime.
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