The Hot Spot
A loner moves in to a small Texas town, finds himself a job, and sets about plotting to rob the local bank.
Dennis Hopper
Casts & Crew
Don Johnson
Virginia Madsen
Jennifer Connelly
Charles Martin Smith
Jerry Hardin
Barry Corbin
Leon Rippy
Jack Nance
William Sadler
Virgil Frye
John Hawker
Margaret Bowman
Debra Cole
Karen Culley
Cody Haynes
George Haynes
James N. Harrell
Edith Mills
Shannon Quinlan
Roosevelt Williams
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