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1* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
2** The film is a real-deal stinker, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSSi5R3Ja6o the film's main theme]] is nice... in a SoBadItsGood fashion, of course.
3** The music that plays at the climax when Griffin is hunted down is quite dramatic.
4* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: At one point late in the film the trio stop to put up the hood of their stolen convertible. However the hood gets stuck and they struggle with it for almost a minute before giving up. Given the quality of the film it is entirely possible they didn't know it would get stuck but didn't bother to reshoot and put the scene in anyway. The entire scene also seems to be there just to have an ironic statement by the Burma-Shave ad ("Where" "Will" "You" "Spend" "Eternity?").
5* CatharsisFactor: Griffin's death at the end was clearly meant to be tragic. Instead, many found his death fulfilling, due to him being an utter sociopath.
6* EnsembleDarkhorse:
7** "He's Cherokee Jack!" He's a lovable idiot with a lot of personality for someone who only appears [[OneSceneWonder in one scene]].
8** The Cuban LadyOfWar at the prison camp also impressed quite a few viewers even though she never speaks.
9* FanNickname: Chastain's name is [[LadyMondegreen misheard as "Justine,"]] which was then popularized as a fan nickname by ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
10* MoralEventHorizon: Griffin crosses this when he rapes a blind girl and murders her father.
11* {{Narm}}: "Griffin ran all the way to hell...[[spoiler:with a penny and a broken cigarette."]]
12* NarmCharm: Again, the theme song "Night Train to Mundo Fine". Despite the incredibly portentous lyrics, dirt simple composition, and Creator/JohnCarradine's froggy, giggle-inducing singing voice, the old fella could actually carry a tune and it ends up giving the song far more gravitas than it deserves.
13-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]]''': Well, they don't call John Carradine "The Voice" for nothing.
14* QuestionableCasting: Creator/JohnCarradine's appearance as an AdvertisedExtra might seem a little surprising, but those familiar with his resume will probably know that his taking such a role really wasn't anything out of the ordinary.[[note]]Carradine literally ''never'' said "no" to a paying film role, which is why his resume has both Hollywood classics and drive-in NoBudget movies interspersed with each other almost randomly chronologically.[[/note]] However, why on earth the film-makers decided that Carradine should perform the film's theme song is a different matter entirely; just listening to a few seconds of the song will tell you that whatever other talents Carradine may have had, singing ''definitely'' wasn't one of them. On the other hand, given what a bleak, gray and downbeat movie this is, Carradine's rough and unpolished performance fits very well.
15* SpecialEffectFailure: The obviously fake beard on UsefulNotes/FidelCastro.
16* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The whole idea of a story about a VillainProtagonist who wants to make a HeelFaceTurn but can't due to his TragicFlaw is actually a pretty good one, on paper at least.
17* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The film owes its largely negative reception to this. Griffin is an UnintentionallyUnsympathetic VillainProtagonist whom the film portrays as a flawed but decent guy, but any heroic actions he did were [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk for selfish reasons]]. The film ''intends'' him to cross the MoralEventHorizon when he rapes a blind girl and murders her father, but he was an unrepentant {{Jerkass}} from the start. Needless to say, few viewers felt sorry for him after he died.
18* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: The actress who plays Chastain's wife gives a surprisingly emotive performance for the few minutes she's in the movie. At least compared to everyone else.
19* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Griffin was meant to be seen as a mostly decent person who was down on his luck and held back by a HairTriggerTemper, and [[TheHeroDies what happens to him at the end of the movie]] was supposed to be [[TragicHero tragic and thought-provoking]]. However, he does nothing even remotely heroic or altruistic at all throughout the entire story; anything he does that '''seems''' so (asking for water for a sick man in a POW camp, or treating the wife of said sick man nicely) is merely calculated to advance his own agenda. Griffin was supposed to have [[MoralEventHorizon fallen beyond sympathy when he rapes a blind girl and murders her father]], but he failed to establish any sympathy to lose by that point.

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