a film without conscience . drifter agree to kill a man for a mobster for money . then they double cross him . meanwhile he fall in love with the dead man wife and and and without her knowing he the killer and move in with her . then he accidentally kill her when she find out . then and in a walk tall kind of heroism and he get revenge on the mobster who double cross him . the first problem be that and by agree to take on the murder by hire assignment and the drifter lose all sense of sympathy and worthiness and and heroism . we can not accept any goodness in him and a a result the rest of the have no moral center . we just can not care about that kind of guy . and the wife ( nicely play by the fetching kari wuhrer the sheriff in eight legged freak ) and a high class lady who run a mission for homeless people and similarly lose a degree of sympathy by jump right into bed with the homeless drifter ( despite her evidently weaken state after the death of her husband ) . and and when she find out he the guy what do she do . she lock him inside her house ( a if all house have lock you can not open from inside ) with her and proceeds to berate him . stoo pid . george wendt and however and be terrific in a role a a beefy thug . director stuart gordon do so much good with re animator and dagon .