Cockfighter 1974  R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: Born to Kill
Gamblin' Man
Wild Drifter
Director: Monte Hellman
Cast: Warren Oates, Richard B. Shull, Harry Dean Stanton, Troy Donahue, Millie Perkins, Laurie Bird, Ed Begley Jr., Warren Finnerty, Robert Earl Jones, Steve Railsback, Patricia Pearcy, Tom Spratley
This violent thriller is about a Georgia man, Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates), who trains roosters to become fighting cocks. Frank's thoughts serve as narration–an interesting experiment in filmmaking.
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The Hitcher 1986  R, 97 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Mystery / Horror / Thriller
Director: Robert Harmon
Cast: Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn, John M. Jackson, Billy Green Bush, Jack Thibeau, Gene Davis, Henry Darrow, Colin(3) Campbell, Armin Shimerman, Jon Van Ness, Tony Epper, Tom Spratley
On a car trip to California, Jim (C. Thomas Howell) picks up psychotic hitchhiker John Ryder (Rutger Hauer), and, from that point on, his excursion turns into a nightmare. John points a switchblade at Jim's crotch, but when Jim escapes, a game of cat-and-mouse begins. John is a serial killer, and he leaves corpses of victims in their cars for Jim to discover, and Jim is framed as the chief suspect in the killings. When Jim meets truck-stop waitress Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the two of them set out, evading the police, to stop John's murder spree and clear Jim's name.
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| 1. Cockfighter (1974)
aka: Born to Kill
aka: Gamblin' Man
aka: Wild Drifter
2. The Hitcher (1986)
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