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"Without Mercy" to be shown at Lammele Theatre in West Hollywood

29 Sep 2004

September 29, 2004 -- McElroy brutalized the town of Skidmore, Missouri for more than a decade. He was mean and intimidating and feared no one. Even the police were afraid of him. Server's film digs in and examines "vigilantism" as a searing study of so-called "mob justice." The story takes place in Skidmore, a small town in the Northwest corner of Missouri, but it could happen anywhere - anytime men fail to act in their own self-interest. It can happen to Nations, even, when good people wait for justice and look the other way. "WITHOUT MERCY" is a triumph of good old-fashioned story-telling . . . The tenseness in the film that builds and eddies and comes back stronger is geared to the temper of each main character and the shifting emotions of the townspeople, as doubt, anger, stubborness, self-pity and revulsion hold them in turn. Dan Wilkens, a contemporary filmmaker described the film "Without Mercy" as "A gritty, highly charged film that progressively tightens its grip on the viewer." And Barry Gifford of the New York Times summed up the verdict on the tale of Ken Rex McElroy "as not quite a guilty pleasure."