Red Rock West (1993) on Netflix
A discharged Marine drifting through Wyoming is mistaken for the hitman a bar owner, Wayne, hired to kill his wife, Suzanne. Michael Williams takes the cash.
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Plot summary
Michael Williams sleeps in his car in Wyoming after leaving the Marine Corps with a war injury. A drilling crew job on an oilfield falls through because he will not hide the injury on the application, so he drives into the town of Red Rock looking for work. At a bar, the owner, Wayne, takes him for a hitman from Dallas he has hired and pays him half his fee in advance. Michael goes to Wayne's ranch and warns Wayne's wife, Suzanne, of the contract instead of carrying it out. Suzanne offers him more money to kill her husband. He takes her cash and heads out of town.
Cast
- Vance Johnsonas Mr. Johnson
- Robert Apelas Howard
- Bobby Joe McFaddenas Old Man
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Red Rock West (1993)
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- It took Banning until January 1994 to find out who owned the rights. The film had already played on HBO in the fall of 1993 and was due out on video, yet when he started showing it at the Roxie Cinema in Los Angeles it broke box office records before expanding to eight theaters.
- Dwight Yoakam, who made his acting debut in the film, wrote the film's closing credits song "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" when the film was being made, and the song went on to become a Top 10 country radio hit.
- Additional filming took place in Missoula, Montana, while the cemetery scenes, which appear to be open country, were filmed inside an airplane hangar in Santa Monica, California.
- Test screenings for Red Rock West were not strong, and Peter Graves, an independent consultant who headed the marketing department at Polygram, said: "The film doesn't fall neatly into any marketable category. A western film noir isn't something people can immediately spark to".
- One of the producers suggested early on that the film be submitted to the Sundance Film Festival, and was told by the studio that it was not a festival film.
