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Released after years in juvenile hall, The Kid (Jacob Nathaniel) begins asking questions
about the murder of his father, Duke Mantee (Ben Gazzara), a small time
gangster working for local Mafia boss, Ma Delaney (Karen Black). As he digs into
the shadows of the past, he learns that Duke was hired to kill Johnny Blue Cloud,
owner of the
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A NEW DRAMATIC FEATURE BY ROBERT CLAPSADLE STARRING BEN GAZZARA (Husbands, Killing of a Chinese Bookie) KAREN BLACK ( Five Easy Pieces) AND INTRODUCING JACOB NATHANIEL |
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Cove’s Indian casino. Having a change of heart, and wanting to spare his old friend,
Duke tells Blue Cloud of a list of names that Ma Delaney has compiled: names
of prominent politicians she has been black-mailing over the years. Searching
through Duke’s things, The Kid discovers the list. Tempted to sell it to the highest
bidder, and run away with his
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girlfriend, Angel, he finds himself trapped in
Paradise Cove: a deranged FBI agent hounds him to be a snitch and a manic street preacher calls him the biblical David, come to slay the Goliath of oppression. The Mafia wants him dead. As he struggles to survive, The Kid must take charge of his own fate. Will he go straight and testify against the Mob, or sell out to the gangsters and run? |
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Shot in the moody noir style by acclaimed cinematographers Mickey Freeman and Bill
Heick, the film features intense action, romance, and original music performed
by renowned jazz singer Laura Theodore.
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You can bury the man,
but not his secrets! |