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New World Pictures
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To commit the perfect murder, you need planning, guts, and luck. Practically nobody has luck.
After a psychopath murders a man who was on his way to a job as a deputy sheriff in a small California town, he assumes the deputy's identity and arrives in town to start his new 'job'. What he doesn't know is that the recently appointed sheriff and his mistress are plotting to murder her evil husband—and blame it on the new deputy.
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Beau Bridges
Sam Wayburn
Kiefer Sutherland
The Stranger
Wayne Rogers
Jake Winslow
Joe Don Baker
Carl Cunningham
Janet Carroll
Lila Daggett
Gracie Harrison
Mary Ellen Knoeller
Michael Madsen
Stu
Shiri Appleby
Annie Winslow
Harriet Medin
Nell
Paul McKenna
Man At Party
Sandra Lee Gimpel
Stunt Coordinator
Robert L. Levy
Producer
Bernt Amadeus Capra
Production Designer
Paul Chihara
Original Music Composer
Oct 23, 1987
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