After his horse refuses o eat from a bag of oats, he sprinkles it with salt and eats the horse""s meal.It was filmed twice before: as a 1925 silent film (starring Agnes Ayres and Warner Baxter) and then as a 1929 sound film (with Ina Claire and Henry Daniell).It is more a return to their hometown roots and a remake of their debut film,Blood Simple (1983)- set in the hot extremes of Texas, a tale of another husband who hires a hit man o murder his wife.When he activated his car""s booster (knowing he was almost on empty), he outran the pursuers and caused the wreckage of the two cars (at the site of a previously-crashed anker-truck, with an emptied gas tank).She protests thatsheshouldn""t always have to romance and "do all the dirty work" on their victims.The Colonel reprimands her with his dignified ""business"" creed:Don""t be vulgar, Jean.Let us be crooked, but never common.Indeed, Pike is "dripping with dough," according o their colleague Gerald (Melville Cooper), the Colonel""s valet.