Cutter's Way

Santa Barbara’s haze in late September, the thud of a dropped whiskey glass. A one-eyed drunk with a hook for a hand and a crutch under his armpot recruits a drifter he calls Friend to stalk a city that accused the wrong man. Stillborn Hitchcockia with a country song on the jukebox.

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Ivan Passer directed Cutter's Way in 1981. See Ivan Passer's full filmography, where to start with Ivan Passer, or where to go after you've seen everything by Ivan Passer.

Cutter's Way was released in 1981 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 109 minutes.