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Release, runtime and language
1986 · 93 mins · English
Directed by
Jerrold Freedman
Starring
Wilford Brimley, Robert Mitchum, Guy Boyd, Susan Tyrrell, Joe Berryman, Kathleen York

A hardened career criminal is being moved from a federal penitentiary to a Texas prison to serve the remainder of his life sentence. Before the transfer is complete, his daring niece stages a gun‑point rescue, freeing him. The officer assigned to the transport—who has been his nemesis for more than three decades—swears to track down the pair, torn between his sense of duty and lingering ties of friendship.

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