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    Killers Three (1968)

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    Johnny (Robert Walker) and Carol (Diane Varsi) Warder (and her five-year-old son) are living a meagre but quiet life in post-World War II North Carolina when they areΒ convinced by Roger (Dick Clark of American Bandstand fame, who also produced the movie) – an old army buddy of Johnny’s – to rob a local bootlegger while all the townsfolk are whooping it up at a fair.

    They bungle the raid and kill a few federal agents in the process and soon they are on the run, with Johnny and Carol taking on a Bonnie and Clyde-like existence (the film is clearly an attempt at emulating Bonnie and Clyde which was released a year earlier).

    The finale has Johnny returning home in a badly damaged car with his wife dead beside him, but the scene is spoiled when Carol’s son – having been left sometime before with his grandmother – says “can we go to California now? – which would have been all right if the voice heard were not that of a grown woman trying to sound like a five-year-old child . . .

    The film was shot around the towns of Ramseur and Coleridge in Randolph County, North Carolina, and director Bruce Kessler coached some very natural acting from some of the natives.

    Country artist Merle Haggard appears (in his film debut) as the local sheriff. His song Mama Tried was originally written as the theme song for this American-International film.

    Johnny Warder
    Robert Walker
    Carol Warder
    Diane Varsi
    RogerΒ 
    Dick Clark
    Guthrie
    Norman Alden
    Elvira Sweeney
    Maureen Arthur
    Tony
    Tony York
    Charlie
    Merle Haggard
    Singer
    Bonnie Owens
    Bates
    John ‘Bud’ Cardos
    Lester Meed
    William Alspaugh
    Felix
    Douglas Barger
    Scotty
    Beach Dickerson
    Mrs Reed
    Lorene Klepacki
    Mrs Sweeney
    Barbara Page
    RC
    Jerry Petty
    Mr Sweeney
    Kelly Sears
    Mr Reed
    Alec Staley
    Sheriff Homer Brown
    Clint Stringer

    Director
    Bruce Kessler

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