Carl Franklin made his directorial bow with the story of three LA drug dealers who, after committing a rather messy murder, hide out in a rural Arkansas town. Assuming that the local "rubes" will offer them little interference, the criminals have not reckoned with sheriff "Hurricane" Dixon (Bill...
A period piece set in the American South, The Height Of The Sky concerns the Jones family, a clan of sharecroppers who struggle under the yoke of the Caldwells, a wealthy farming family who own the land the Joneses have worked for years. Leora, (Jennifer Weedon), the daughter of the Jones...