Jackson County Jail (The Innocent Victim) (1976)
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34% of users liked it
(1,226 ratings)
Yvette Mimieux delivers a sensitive, nuanced performance in a role that could have easily spread into a cheap exploitation turn in Jackson County Jail. Mimieux plays advertising executive Dinah Hunter, who leaves Los Angeles and a promising career after she discovers her lover has been cheating on… More Yvette Mimieux delivers a sensitive, nuanced performance in a role that could have easily spread into a cheap exploitation turn in Jackson County Jail. Mimieux plays advertising executive Dinah Hunter, who leaves Los Angeles and a promising career after she discovers her lover has been cheating on her. Determined to start fresh in New York City, she gets into her car and heads east. Picking up some young hitchhikers along the way, she ends up stranded in an out-of-the-way western town after being beaten up and having her car stolen. Thrown into the local jailhouse on trumped up charges, she finds herself at the mercy of a psychopathic guard who further beats her and then rapes her. Dinah kills the jailkeeper and goes on the lam with fellow jailhouse inmate and down-home radical Coley Blake (Tommy Lee Jones). The sheriff's department engages the couple in a wild car chase through a parade commemorating the United States' Bicentennial, as Dinah and Coley try to break free to the open road. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- Michael Miller
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure
R,
- In Theaters
- Dec 31, 1976 Wide
- On DVD
- Sep 26, 2000
- Studio
- Concorde/New Horizons Home Video
Critic Reviews
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John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
A woman's American odyssey becomes a road trip from hell, making her a victim of and then a fugitive from a corrupt political justice and law enforcement system that might as well be an extension of the betrayals of her workplace and home.
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Scott Weinberg, DVDTalk.com
Bucks the b-movie conventions by forsaking simple car chases and explosions for a surprisingly insightful little tale of rape and escape.
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Cast
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Yvette Mimieux
as Dinah Hunter
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Tommy Lee Jones
as Coley Blake
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Robert Carradine
as Bobby Ray
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Frederic Cook
as Hobie
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Severn Darden
as Sheriff Dempsey
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Howard Hesseman
as David
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John Lawlor
as Deputy Burt
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Mary Woronov
as Pearl
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Britt Leach
as Dan Oldum
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Betty Thomas
as Waitress
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Patrice Rohmer
as Cassie Anne
- Royce D. Applegate
- Dick Armstrong
- Beverly Hope Atkinson
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Marcie Barkin
as Girl in Restaurant
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Mark Carlton
as Highway Patrolman
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Cliff Emmich
as Mr. Bigelow
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Nan Martin
as Allison
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Amparo Mimieux
as Poquita
- Nancy Lee Noble
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Jack O'Leary
as Officer Blake
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Gus Peters
as Melon Man Shaw
- Charles W. Young
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M. James Arnett
as Highway Patrolman
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Ira Miller
as Drunk Man
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Hal Needham
as Chief of Fallsburg Police
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Arthur Wong Ngok Tai
as Cook
- Susan Batson
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Michael Hilkene
as Vincent Lepardo
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Richard Lockmiller
as Officer Jessie
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Ed Marshall
as Mr. Blight
- Lisa Copeland
