Cinematheque: Anti-Westerns

Directed by James Frawley; US, 1973, 35mm, 100 min.; with Dennis Hopper. Attempting to go straight, Bickford Warner, a/k/a the notorious train robber Kid Blue (Hopper), arrives in the tiny town of Dime Box, Texas and ultimately finds an unfulfilling job at the Great American Ceramic Novelty Company. Soon, however, the drudgery of his occupation and a personal scandal drive the Kid back into a life of crime.