Elmore Leonard is hard to adapt because you've got to get the tone. This one doesn't. It has this dreadful TV esque Mike Curb score and a TV movie feel and never seems sure how to pitch it.
Van Heflin might have worked in a better movie, ditto Robert Webber, but Ryan O'Neal and Leigh Taylor Young while both quite beautiful are too lightweight and bland. Too pretty. Neither have mileage. O'Neal isn't believable as a Vietnam vet or a drifter or anything.
The one element of interest is both O'Neal and Taylor Young go skinny dipping in a few scenes (the ocean, a pool) and you can glimpse what you can with the see through underwear. That stops you from falling asleep. Briefly.
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