A dim-witted Chicago crook tries to rob a bank in Texas and ends up begging his jilted fiancée to save his neck.
Eddy, a small-time Chicago criminal with a penchant for dim-witted schemes, is on the run. After ripping off his boss, Eddy hightails it for Mexico, but gets distracted by a pretty hitchhiker on the way. What begins as a simple tryst ends with Eddy beaten up, broken down, and penniless in Wynot, TX. Inadvertently witnessing a murder by Willet Nash, the county's all powerful Sheriff, Eddy tries to hold up a bank and make a run for it, but his cockamamie plan goes awry and he's caught in the act by Nash himself. Eddy's only chance to make it out of jail alive is his fiancé Jeannie, who he left jilted at the alter back in Chicago.
Acting
Gabriel Luna makes stupidity weirdly sympathetic.
Production
Wynot, TX feels authentically sweaty and doomed.
Writing
Dialogue that swings between cringe and unexpectedly sharp.
Director
George Anson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wynot, TX is a real unincorporated community, population effectively zero, chosen for its appropriately absurd name.
The film reverses the typical noir structure: instead of a femme fatale destroying a man, Eddy destroys himself and expects a woman to fix it.
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