In which 1973 Terence Malick film did Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek play a couple of psychotic murderers?
Terrence Malick early uncredited drafts of "Dirty Harry" (1971) and "Drive, He Said" (1971), and is credited with the screenplay for "Pocket Money" (1972). Malick was also co-writer of "The Gravy Train" (1974), under the pseudonym David Whitney. After one of his screenplays, "Deadhead Miles", was made into what Paramount Pictures believed was an unreleasable film, Malick decided to direct his own scripts. Malick's first feature-length work as a director was "Badlands", an independent film starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as a young couple on a crime spree in the 1950s Midwest. It was influenced by the crimes of convicted teenage
Martin Sheen (1970), "Dan August" (1971), "The Rookies" (1973), "Columbo" (1973), and "The Streets of San Francisco" (1973). He also had a recurring role as "Danny Morgan" on "Mod Squad" (1970–1971). By the early 1970s, Sheen was increasingly focusing on television films and motion pictures. Sheen portrayed Dobbs in the 1970 film adaptation of "Catch-22". He then co-starred in the controversial Emmy Award-winning 1972 television film "That Certain Summer", said to be the first television movie in America to portray homosexuality in a sympathetic light. His next important feature film role was in 1973, when he starred with Sissy Spacek in the