An early Mark L. Lester effort.
Stars Marjoe Gortner and Lynda Carter. Half Bonnie & Clyde, half Aloha Bobby and Rose and half something else. Has a reference to Deliverance. Marjoe makes a pudgy vigilante squeal like a pig.
Marjoe smiles too much. He shows some concern when he first kills a man, but being a wanted murderer doesn't bother him as much as it might have.
Marjoe Gortner had been a child evangelist, ordained at age four. A young couple made a mockery of their own wedding at that time by having him conduct the ceremony. When he was about 20, he got a film crew to record his last tour on the revival circuit revealing its seedy underbelly. The film, Marjoe, won an Oscar for best documentary. He was somehow able to parlay this in an acting career. His hyper-religious background made me wonder how he felt about doing the sex scenes with Lynda Carter, TV's Wonder Woman.
I'm giving away the ending here but I don't think it matters. It ends with Lynda Carter spitting in the sheriff's face and calling him a bastard because the cops killed her spree-killer boyfriend who she only met a few days earlier. They killed him in a gunfight. But the cops also killed her sister and one of her pre-crime spree girlfriends, but who should she blame for that.
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