October 12 1990 Dennis Hopper’s steamy, neo-noir, pulpy potboiler The Hot Spot premieres. Written by Charles Williams and Nona Tyson from Williams’ 1952 novel Hell Hath No Fury, Don Johnson is impeccably cast as the laconic, small-time grifter who tumbleweeds into a small, sun-scorched Texas backwater where his bank-robbing plans get side-tracked by a nubile young receptionist and a lubricious housewife with murder on her mind. An exceptionally well-crafted, Falknerian exercise in libidinous duplicity featuring Jennifer Connolly and Virginia Madsen as the sultry, sexually provocative femme fatales.
