Duane Whitaker came to Hollywood from Lubbock, Texas, in the early 1980s to pursue an acting career. He began writing and directing plays as well as working in film and television. Four of his plays have been produced in Los Angeles, including "Eddie Presley", which was adapted and became his first produced screenplay ("Eddie Presley (1992)"). He also wrote the screenplay for "Stripteaser (1995)", ... show all
Duane Whitaker came to Hollywood from Lubbock, Texas, in the early 1980s to pursue an acting career. He began writing and directing plays as well as working in film and television. Four of his plays have been produced in Los Angeles, including "Eddie Presley", which was adapted and became his first produced screenplay ("Eddie Presley (1992)"). He also wrote the screenplay for "Stripteaser (1995)", which was released on video in 1995. Duane continued to work as an actor and scored the role of Maynard in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction (1994)". He then co-wrote "From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999) " with director Scott Spiegel and co-stars with Robert Patrick and Bo Hopkins. He wrote and directed a low-budget feature, "Together & Alone (1998)", which screened in Park City, Utah, during the Sundance Film Festival. hide
Genres:Action | Thriller Countries:USA Directors:Jesse V. Johnson Actors:Eric Roberts | Robert Davi | Keith David | Geoffrey Lewis | Irina Björklund | Paul Dillon | Jerry Trimble | Michael Ironside | Bokeem Woodbine | Guillermo Díaz | Julie Carmen | Vernon Wells | Maddy Howard | Anthony V. Pugliese III | Duane Whitaker
For nearly twenty years after his boxing career ended Merle Hench works for Murdoch, the capo of a San Fernando mob outfit. Merle spends his days cracking heads and collecting debts, it is not a job he enjoys. Cool, calm and collected, soft spoken even, Merle's an anachronism, a man out of place and out of time. His Boss thinks Merle has outlived his usefulness and is expendable. So they set him up to take the fall for a multi-million $ heist of a rival mob boss. A habitual gambler on a 20 year losing streak, Merle's luck turns as he survives the trap and winds up with a piece of the take and the girl. Merle might have been content to just disappear and spend his windfall with Jacqueline. But the betrayal of his loyalty for 20 years snapped something inside. Merle Hench, otherwise known as the Butcher is slow to anger yet quick to act, he's learned to live and let live to keep on going, but not this time. Everyone thought his nickname was a joke, what they didn't know was that Merle had a dark side, a secret past that earned that awful name. Merle finds himself in the cross-fire of a gang war, with all the guns aimed at him. It's an all-out race to win his freedom, win the girl and win redemption. They tried to bury him twice, but twice he got away. Underestimating Merle Hench is their biggest mistake and their final career move.
Genres: Action | Thriller
