In a Shallow Grave

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In a Shallow Grave ★★ 1988 (R)

Shallow treatment of James Purdy's novel about a WWII veteran, badly disfigured in combat at Guadalcanal, who returns to Virginia in an attempt to return to the life he once had with the woman he still loves. Handsome Biehn plays the disfigured vet, Mueller's his ex-fiancee, and Dempsey's the drifter who adds a bisexual hypotenuse to the love triangle. Pokey American Playhouse coproduction. 92m/C VHS . Mi chael Biehn, Maureen Mueller, Patrick Dempsey, Michael Beach, Thomas Boyd Mason; D: Kenneth Bowser; W: Kenneth Bowser.

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