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    Evictors, The (1979)

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    In mid-summer 1928, a representative of Shreveport Union Bank attempts to deliver an eviction notice to a rural Louisiana farmhouse belonging to the Monroe Family. Because he has failed to do so on previous attempts, the bank officer brings heavily-armed Federal agents this time.

    A confrontation ensues between the family inside and the agents of the law, with the Monroes cut down in a hail of bullets.

    In 1942, real estate agent Jake Rudd (Vic Morrow) sells the long-vacant Monroe house to a young married couple, Ruth (Jessica Harper of Suspiria fame) and Ben Watkins (Michael Parks). Rudd doesn’t share any information about the house’s violent history, but Ruth soon learns that former owners were murdered in the house in 1934.

    Later, she hears from her wheelchair-bound neighbour, Olie Gibson (Sue Ane Langdon) that another couple died there as well, in 1939. The husband was electrocuted and the wife was burned alive.

    Soon, Ruth begins seeing a strange intruder, wearing overalls, lurking around the house at night. Ben’s job often takes him away, to Shreveport, but he asks the town sheriff to patrol near the house, and then teaches Ruth how to use a gun. Ruth, however, wants to move.

    Unfortunately, neither the police nor the weapon can prevent the strange, obsessed intruder from waging a campaign of terror and death on the Watkins and their house.

    The Evictors was one of the last films to be released by American International Pictures (AIP).

    Ruth Watkins
    Jessica Harper
    Ben Watkins
    Michael Parks
    Jake Rudd
    Vic Morrow
    Olie Gibson
    Sue Ane Langdon
    Mr Bumford
    Dennis Fimple
    Preacher Higgins
    Bill Thurman
    Mr Buckner
    Jimmy Clem
    Mr Wheeler
    Harry Thomasson
    Mrs Bumford
    Twyla Taylor
    Mrs Mullins
    Mary Branch
    Mr Mullins
    John H. Meyer
    Mr Rhinehart
    John Milam
    Mrs Rhinehart
    Roxanne Harter
    Sheriff
    Foster Litton
    G-Man
    Owen Guthrie

    Director
    Charles B. Pierce

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