Macon County Line

Macon County Line is 1974 American independent film directed by Richard Compton and produced by Max Baer, Jr. Both Baer and Compton also wrote the film, and Baer stars as a vengeful county sheriff out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. The $225,000 film reportedly became the single most profitable film of 1974 (in cost-to-gross ratio) earning over $30 million dollars at the box office. The film is docudrama in tone and although it was presented as "a true story" to attract a wider audience (much like the Hollywood revisionist film Walking Tall, released a year earlier), its plotline is entirely fictional. In 1954, brothers Chris (Alan Vint) and Wayne Dixon (Jesse Vint), are on a two-week spree of cheap thrills throughout the South before their upcoming stint in the Air Force. Both Chicago transplants, Wayne applied for service when his brother Chris was given the option of military service or prison as the result of an earlier episode with the law....