Jackson County Jail (The Innocent Victim) (1976)

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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

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Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 34 min.
Directed By: Michael Miller
Genres: Drama, Action & Adventure

In Theaters: Dec 31, 1976 Wide
On DVD: Sep 26, 2000
Studio: Concorde/New Horizons Home Video

Critic Reviews

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.
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

            Yvette Mimieux as Dinah Hunter

            Tommy Lee Jones as Coley Blake

            Robert Carradine as Bobby Ray

            Frederic Cook as Hobie

            Severn Darden as Sheriff Dempsey

            Howard Hesseman as David

            John Lawlor as Deputy Burt

            Mary Woronov as Pearl

            Britt Leach as Dan Oldum

            Betty Thomas as Waitress

            Patrice Rohmer as Cassie Anne

            Royce D. Applegate
            
            Dick Armstrong
            
            Beverly Hope Atkinson
            
            Marcie Barkin as Girl in Restaurant

            Mark Carlton as Highway Patrolman

            Cliff Emmich as Mr. Bigelow

            Nan Martin as Allison

            Amparo Mimieux as Poquita

            Nancy Lee Noble
            
            Jack O'Leary as Officer Blake

            Gus Peters as Melon Man Shaw

            Charles W. Young
            
            M. James Arnett as Highway Patrolman

            Ira Miller as Drunk Man

            Hal Needham as Chief of Fallsburg Police

            Arthur Wong Ngok Tai as Cook

            Susan Batson
            
            Michael Hilkene as Vincent Lepardo

            Richard Lockmiller as Officer Jessie

            Ed Marshall as Mr. Blight

            Lisa Copeland
            
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