aka Before I Die."Hardly ever missed, did I?"
The film starts with elderly horror film star Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff) announcing to his agent that he is retiring. All try to persuade him to reconsider whilst he makes one last personal appearance at a drive-in. Meanwhile a young Vietnam veteran, who looks every bit like the clean cut all American boy, Bobby (Tim O'Kelly) plans out his revenge on the world using his skills as a snipper. Both these worlds are set to collide at the drive-in.
Peter Bogdanovich's debut feature is an accomplished piece of work using the then recent Charles Whitman shootings at the University of Texas as the basis for this fiction.
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