The Killing Time (film)

The Killing Time is a 1987 thriller film starring Kiefer Sutherland, Beau Bridges, and Michael Madsen. This film has the distinction of being one of the few times Beau Bridges is seen smoking on-camera.

The Killing Time
Directed by Rick King
Produced by Peter Abrams
J.P. Guerin
Robert L. Levy
Written by Don Bohlinger
James Nathan
Bruce Franklin Singer
Starring Kiefer Sutherland
Beau Bridges
Michael Madsen
Music by Paul Chihara
Cinematography Paul Goldsmith
Edited by Lorenzo DeStefano
Distributed by New World Pictures
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Release dates
October 23, 1987
Running time
94 min
Country United States
Language English
Box office $500,283 (USA)

Plot Summary

A psycho murders a man who was on his way to a job as a deputy sheriff in a small California coastal town. He takes on the deputy's identity and arrives in town to start his new "job." What he doesn't know is that the sheriff and his mistress are plotting to murder her husband and blame it on the new deputy.

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