Sonny Boy (1989)

Directors

Robert Martin Carroll

Cast

David Carradine, Michael Griffin, Brad Dourif, Paul L. Smith, Sydney Lassick, Conrad Janis, Savina Gersak, Alexandra Powers, Steve Carlisle, Dalene Young, Jeff Bergquist

The story

In 1970, Harmony, a small town in New Mexico, is run by a small-time crime boss named Slue, who accepts the delivery of a Lincoln Continental car stolen by his henchman Weasel, who brings it after killing a couple who was travelling with their child. When the crime boss finds the couple's baby in the backseat he wants to kill him, but he is stopped by his transvestite “wife”, Pearl. Slue decides to keep the baby - which Pearl names “Sonny Boy” - but he cuts out the boy’s tongue and raises him as a mute accomplice in their crimes, training and treating him like a wild dog, and sending Sonny Boy to kill anyone who wants to steal from or…

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