“As black, sinful and nasty as a week full of Hitchcocks, this is as fresh and intoxicating now as it was back then. In a word: deadly.”
Screened in tribute to M. Emmet Walsh (1935 - 2024)
The late (& truly) great M. Emmet Walsh plays Visser, an unscrupulous private eye hired by seedy Texas bar owner Marty (Dan Hedaya) to murder Marty's faithless wife Abby (Frances McDormand) and her paramour, Ray (John Getz). Inevitably, things do not go quite as planned…The Coen’s debut feature is a terrific neo-noir - with a grubby rawness that they would soon discard in favour of a far slicker irony.
