Top cast:Charles Edler,Eugenie Forde,Mildred Harris
Director:Joaquim Dos Santos&Kemp Powers&Justin K. Thompson
Genre:Short
Region:Mexico
Year:2008
Storyline:Eddie: Yeah, like a church.Church of the Good Hustler.Burns: It looks more like a morgue to me.Those tables are the slabs hey lay the stiffs (on).Eddie: I'll be alive when I get out, Charlie.The cashier/pool hall manager emphasizes the main attraction of the renowned joint: "No bar, no pinball machines, no bowling alleys, just pool, nothing else.[Malick's first scripted filmPocket Money (1972)was just a year earlier.]Malick's independent film's engaging story about a delinquent duo was loosely based and inspired by the Charles Starkweather-Caril Ann Fugate mass murders (eleven in total, including his accomplice girlfriend's mother, stepfather and 2 year-old sister) of 1958 in Lincoln, Nebraska and Colorado.He whispers and hisses: "Master, the sun is gone." Hideously and lustfully, Renfield madly begs his steely-eyed master:You will keep your promise when we get to London, won't you Master? You will see that I get lives, not human lives but small ones, with blood in them? I'll be loyal to you Master....They were paid to come, so they can't go away." And then Sister Briony from the dispensary burst in with similar news: "The General's clerk has orders to pay everybody who comes to my dispensary.