He had a nickname he hated, his guns were in hock,
and he owed his shirt to his bookie...
But, all that's about to change.
"The Butcher"
Written & directed by Jesse Johnson
Trailer link:
http://worldfilms.com/videos/video-the-butcher.cfm
Jimmy Page, Mozart, Bela Bartok, Jim Morrison, Schubert, Leonard Cohen, Prokofiev, Rolling Stones, Gnarls Barkely, Django Reinhardt, Marcello DeFranacisci, Johnny Cash, Chet Baker, Rachmaninov, The Who.
"The Butcher" (2008)
Merle "The Butcher" hench is an aging mobster with a ridiculous nickname that he has tried to lose for twenty years, when he’s presented with a situation that allows him to make something of his misspent life, he seizes the opportunity with bloody consequences.
"Eric Roberts as you’ve never seen him before, an awesome and breath taking performance, thrilling and terrifying at the same time."
Bokeem Woodbine as ChinaTown Pete - "The Butcher."
Timothy V. Murphy as "Tyke" - "The Butcher."
Eric Roberts As Merle "The Butcher" Hench and Irina Bjorklund as "Jackie."
Merle "The Butcher" Hench with Winchester.
For Whom the Bell Tolls. The Old man and the Sea. Our Man in Havana. Men Without Women. Pierre. Tales of Unrest. Nostromo. Youth. The Great Gatsby. Anything by Charles Willeford, Raymond Chandler, Dashiel Hammet. (Collector/reader of First editions: Hemingway, Steinbeck, Conrad, Greene, TE.Lawrence.)
Writers:
Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad, Grahame Greene, William Faulkner.
Filmmakers:
Samuel Fuller, Sam Peckinpah, Akira Kurosawa, Don Siegel, Sergio Leone,Masaki Kobayashi, Stanley Kubrick, Vic Armstrong, David Lean, John Ford, Francois Truffaut, Jean Pierre Melville, Robert Aldrich, Elia Kazan, Kinji Fujisaku, Seijun Suzuki, Jean Luc Godard, Martin Scorcese, Robert Aldrich, Lucino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Michaelangelo Antonioni.
Real-life:
Che Guevara, T.E. Lawrence, Larry Thorne, Carlos Hathcock, Randy Weaver, Winston Churchill.
Actors:
Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Toshiro Mifune, Clint Eastwood.
And Eric Roberts!