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Plot

Director Bernard Rose and screenwriter David Yallop were inspired by the real-life Hulten/Jones murder case of 1944, famously known as The Cleft Chin Murder Case, after a London cabbie was found murdered. It was a sensation in England, where American soldier Karl Hulten and British showgirl Elizabeth Maud Jones became household names -- even beating out news of the war. In the film, Karl Hulten (Kiefer Sutherland), is an American GI who is stalking the black market of London after stealing an army truck and going AWOL. There he meets up with Betty Jones (Emily Lloyd), a stripper with a deluded fantasy world view formed by watching a steady stream of Hollywood film noir and gangster pictures. Seeing Karl, who claims he is Chicago Joe doing advance work in London for encroaching Chicago gangsters, Betty takes the opportunity to set her fantasies to life as she connives Karl into a crime spree of petty crimes. With luck on their side, the spree keeps escalating, until Betty urges Karl to commit the ultimate crime -- murder.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Crime and Mystery,Thriller
Run Time:
120min.
Theatrical Release Date:
07/27/1990
DVD Release Date:
10/21/2003
Distributor(s):
Palace Pictures
Director(s):
Bernard Rose
Starring:
Emily Lloyd , Kiefer Sutherland , Patsy Kensit , Keith Allen , Liz Fraser
Themes:
Lovers on the Lam,Crime Sprees
Tone:
Atmospheric,Ominous,Tense
Keywords:
cab-driver,con/scam,crime-spree,execution,fantasy,hitchhiker,investigation,killing,love,murder,reality,robbery,soldier,stripper
Country of Origin:
USA (07-27-1990)