Jackson County Jail (1976) on Netflix
Dinah Hunter quits her Los Angeles advertising job and drives to New York. Hitchhikers Bobby Ray and Lola rob her, and a bartender's lie leaves her jailed in Jackson County.
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Plot summary
Dinah Hunter works in advertising in Los Angeles. After a quarrel with a client she gives up the job, then finds David, her boyfriend, in the pool with another woman, Candy. She telephones her friend Allison and takes back her old post in New York City, then drives east from Los Angeles. She gives a ride to Bobby Ray and his pregnant girlfriend Lola, who that night rob her and take her car and purse. In an empty bar she asks the bartender, Dan Oldum, to use his telephone, and he tries to rape her. She defends herself, Deputy Burt arrives, and Oldum claims she attacked him. Carrying no money and no identification, she is arrested and held at the Jackson County jail, where Sheriff Dempsey says she must remain until her identity is confirmed.
Cast
- Michael Asheas Mr. Cooper
- Marciee Drakeas Candy
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jackson County Jail (1976)
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- Jackson County Jail became a cult film and in 1996 was selected by Quentin Tarantino for the first Quentin Tarantino Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
- Based on CBS's positive response to airing Jackson County Jail in prime time, director Michael Miller pitched a series for Yvette Mimieux's character, in the vein of The Fugitive. The resulting pilot, Outside Chance, reused 30 minutes of the original, removed Tommy Lee Jones's scenes, and did not go to series.
