After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
Let us single out Scott Wilson. This great actor seems to have gone most of his life without recognition, being best known now for "The Walking Dead" rather than anything else he has done. Robert Blake got huge, but despite this movie and appearing on the cover of Life magazine, Wilson seems to have stayed obscure. That is a travesty.
I love that the film is in black and white. By the late 1960s, this was (I believe) less common than it had been only a few years before. But it makes it edgier, and also timeless. Color has a year attached, as color technology changes. But black and white can be any time, while still maintaining a very 1950s feel.
Let us single out Scott Wilson. This great actor seems to have gone most of his life without recognition, being best known now for "The Walking Dead" rather than anything else he has done. Robert Blake got huge, but despite this movie and appearing on the cover of Life magazine, Wilson seems to have stayed obscure. That is a travesty.
I love that the film is in black and white. By the late 1960s, this was (I believe) less common than it had been only a few years before. But it makes it edgier, and also timeless. Color has a year attached, as color technology changes. But black and white can be any time, while still maintaining a very 1950s feel.