*SPOILERS** Driving into this small out of the way Texas town drifter Harry Madox, Don Johnson, soon makes a name for himself by showing how good he is in selling a car to an unsuspecting patron. The guy was so impressed by Harry's line of BS that he didn't even know that he's not employed at the car dealership he bought it from!
The sure of himself Harry Madox makes a B-line to the owner's, of the car dealership, office George Harshaw, Jerry Hardin, who seeing what a good job he did hires him on the spot. It turns out that Harry is a lot more complicated that you would have first thought. Looking for both action as well as money Harry by the time the movie is over gets himself involved with two women Harshaw's sexy wife Dolly, Virginia Madsen, and his young and even more sexier, in a sweet and innocent way, bookkeeper Gloria Harper, Jennifer Connally. Harry is also interested in knocking off the local bank run by the overly daffy and not that on the ball Julian Ward, Jack Nance. By starting an arson fire with the sheriff, Barry Corbin, and his deputies called on the scene Harry robs the place blind and then makes like a hero saving a drunk who was trapped in the building that Harry set on fire.
Trying to cover all the bases Harry didn't expected to be identified by the local blind man, James N. Harrell,who "saw" Harry snooping around in the bank, all alone, before the fire started. It later turns out that the blind mans "eye witness" testimony was thrown out when Dolly stepped in and told, in a sworn affidavit, that she saw Harry outside the inflamed building before the bank was robbed! Knowing that Dolly, whom he just looks upon as a one night stand and nothing more, got him by the you know what's Harry is now forced to put up with her in the fear that she'll change her testimony in the bank robbery which would have him put behind bars.
It's Harry's attempt to get in good with Harshaw's 19 year-old bookkeeper Gloria that really gets him into a jam. It turns out that Gloria is being blackmailed by the local town sh*t-kicker Frank Suttor, William Sadler. Suttor has a number of photo's of Gloria with her clothes off, but not doing anything naughty, and is using those photos to have her embezzle her, as well as Harry's, boss George Harshaw! What's even worse is that Suttor pulled the same thing on Gloria's sister Irene, Debra Cole. Sutton was blackmailing Irene with a number of nude photos that he secretly took of her while she was skinny-dipping with Gloria in a local pond but also with the fact that she was having a lesbian affair with her art teacher! All this drove the very sensitive and emotionally fragile young woman to kill herself.
Harry does get to straighten things out for Gloria by doing a number on Sutton but that number, brutal beating, only leads to Harry being blackmailed by a vengeful Sutton with the knowledge that he robbed Julian Ward's bank! How on earth did Suttor, who wasn't at the scene of both the bank robbery or fire, know that Harry robbed the place? It turns out that Suttor had an accomplice in his blackmailing scheme that in effect lead Harry to go a step farther in the crimes he committed in town; murder!
**SPOILER ALERT**Harry was too smart for his own good in thinking he could get away with what he did and live, with the beautiful Goria Harper, happily ever after. The evil and manipulative Dolly Harshaw was not going to let Harry slip away from her that easily. Having gone so far as murdering her sick, from having two previous heart-attacks, husband George after a night of wild and kinky sex Dolly was more then willing to go the full nine yards in getting Harry back with her. Harry didn't realize that both Dolly and Suttor were working together for different reasons. Suttor for blackmail money and Dolly for Harry's company and companionship.
When the truth finally dawned on Harry he knew that the rest of his life was both sh*t and history with him either ending up getting life behind bars or a lethal injection up his left arm. Swallowing his pride and knowing that he'll never see his beloved Gloria Harper again Harry gave into the enviable; Life with no chance of parole as Dolly Harshaw's both live-in boyfriend and, with her being the one in control, kinky sex partner. A life that even the worst kind of death would be a vast improvement on!
The sure of himself Harry Madox makes a B-line to the owner's, of the car dealership, office George Harshaw, Jerry Hardin, who seeing what a good job he did hires him on the spot. It turns out that Harry is a lot more complicated that you would have first thought. Looking for both action as well as money Harry by the time the movie is over gets himself involved with two women Harshaw's sexy wife Dolly, Virginia Madsen, and his young and even more sexier, in a sweet and innocent way, bookkeeper Gloria Harper, Jennifer Connally. Harry is also interested in knocking off the local bank run by the overly daffy and not that on the ball Julian Ward, Jack Nance. By starting an arson fire with the sheriff, Barry Corbin, and his deputies called on the scene Harry robs the place blind and then makes like a hero saving a drunk who was trapped in the building that Harry set on fire.
Trying to cover all the bases Harry didn't expected to be identified by the local blind man, James N. Harrell,who "saw" Harry snooping around in the bank, all alone, before the fire started. It later turns out that the blind mans "eye witness" testimony was thrown out when Dolly stepped in and told, in a sworn affidavit, that she saw Harry outside the inflamed building before the bank was robbed! Knowing that Dolly, whom he just looks upon as a one night stand and nothing more, got him by the you know what's Harry is now forced to put up with her in the fear that she'll change her testimony in the bank robbery which would have him put behind bars.
It's Harry's attempt to get in good with Harshaw's 19 year-old bookkeeper Gloria that really gets him into a jam. It turns out that Gloria is being blackmailed by the local town sh*t-kicker Frank Suttor, William Sadler. Suttor has a number of photo's of Gloria with her clothes off, but not doing anything naughty, and is using those photos to have her embezzle her, as well as Harry's, boss George Harshaw! What's even worse is that Suttor pulled the same thing on Gloria's sister Irene, Debra Cole. Sutton was blackmailing Irene with a number of nude photos that he secretly took of her while she was skinny-dipping with Gloria in a local pond but also with the fact that she was having a lesbian affair with her art teacher! All this drove the very sensitive and emotionally fragile young woman to kill herself.
Harry does get to straighten things out for Gloria by doing a number on Sutton but that number, brutal beating, only leads to Harry being blackmailed by a vengeful Sutton with the knowledge that he robbed Julian Ward's bank! How on earth did Suttor, who wasn't at the scene of both the bank robbery or fire, know that Harry robbed the place? It turns out that Suttor had an accomplice in his blackmailing scheme that in effect lead Harry to go a step farther in the crimes he committed in town; murder!
**SPOILER ALERT**Harry was too smart for his own good in thinking he could get away with what he did and live, with the beautiful Goria Harper, happily ever after. The evil and manipulative Dolly Harshaw was not going to let Harry slip away from her that easily. Having gone so far as murdering her sick, from having two previous heart-attacks, husband George after a night of wild and kinky sex Dolly was more then willing to go the full nine yards in getting Harry back with her. Harry didn't realize that both Dolly and Suttor were working together for different reasons. Suttor for blackmail money and Dolly for Harry's company and companionship.
When the truth finally dawned on Harry he knew that the rest of his life was both sh*t and history with him either ending up getting life behind bars or a lethal injection up his left arm. Swallowing his pride and knowing that he'll never see his beloved Gloria Harper again Harry gave into the enviable; Life with no chance of parole as Dolly Harshaw's both live-in boyfriend and, with her being the one in control, kinky sex partner. A life that even the worst kind of death would be a vast improvement on!