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Montana for a week of recon, lining up some actors, and went back to LA. I wrote a few scenes, and going to Montana a friend, copy writer by profession, Peter Trias went with me. He wrote a bit when we got there. .... I promised them a new film for the festival. I went back to Missoula and the actors met with me there.
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The film follows an unemployed cowboy drifter (Tom Blair), estranged from his wife and kids, who drives across
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I decided to make another film, and corresponded with a friend from my years in
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