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Disclosure: I received complimentary product for review purposes and all opinions expressed here are my own.
This film starts out with John Schneider, who portrays Eddie Macon, a prisoner that escapes on the back of a cattle truck after being with other prisoners who participated in a rodeo. After the truck stops at a weigh station , Macon jumps out from the back of the truck and goes running.
He must have had this planned because he stops somewhere and there is a backpack with a note in it from his wife. It also has a pair of running shoes in it and a gun, along with a change of clothes and some food. In another segment it shows Macon when he was in prison and planning the escape and the plan with his wife while she is visiting him.
Later it shows the police talking to another lawman named Lieutenant Marzack (Kirk Douglas) about them losing one of their prisoners. This has been Macon's second attempt at running from the prison and Marzack knows him. Then it goes to a bunch of trucks with hound dogs going to search for him.
It shows him running and thinking about his wife when they got married and the birth of their baby son, a Christmas memory, and when his son was in the hospital with a blood disease.
Marzack goes to the prison to see if he can find out information from Macon's former cellmate and if he knew that he was planning on escaping. His cellmate says he didn't know anything about it and Marzack asks him questions about any of his habits and if he had hobbies. The cellmate said he liked to run and that he ran every day.
The film goes back in time to Macon talking to his former employee about quitting and moving to Texas where he can make more money to pay for his little boy's hospital bills. He gets a check from his new job and they have taken out $100 deduction for a loan, which he disputes with the boss. The boss says they take out $100 per week for working there, which is really weird. He says after six months it goes down to $50 per week. Macon gets angry when the boss gets very rude about the situation and hits him.
On the way home from work, Macon gets stopped by the police because they have found out about the ordeal at work. They arrest him and he ends up in jail for felonious assault and resisting arrest. He was also drinking a beer on the way home and they add being intoxicated to the charge. He is ordered to the state penitentiary for not less than five years.
Fast forward to Macon stopping in the night while he is on the run, and a couple of deranged guys find him and want to know what he is doing on their property. They have a gun and one wants to shoot him but the other wants to take him with them on their truck back to their home. They think he is a cattle rustler but he tells them he is just camping and makes up a place where he works as an accountant.
The deranged men take them to their house, where they have a woman living there also. They tie him up and are are going to hang him in the living room when the one guy decides to let him down. When they aren't looking and he is lying on the floor tied up, Macon gets loose from the ties on his hands and grabs a gun that he has in his backpack which is on the floor near him. They spot him with the gun and go towards him, when he shoots both of the guys. He lets the woman alone in the house and flees out of the door running.
Later, a policeman goes to Marzack's house and tells him about the shooting in another county of two ranchers. He also tells him that the assailant left on foot with no vehicle. Marzack has an idea that this could be Macon who is on the run and decides to look into it himself. He calls into his office that he'll out of town a few days and grabs some guns and ammunition and takes off in his car.
So far I think this is a good movie, especially with Kirk Douglas in it. This was made in 1983 so he was starting to get older but still looks pretty good. John Schneider is a young man, and I remember him in the show Dukes of Hazzard.
I am anxious to see how this all ends and hope it is a good ending for the Eddie Macon character.
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