Blood Simple (1984)
A Texas neo-noir small-cast murder spiral. Blood Simple is Joel and Ethan Coen's 1984 American indie neo-noir and the directors' debut feature.
Actor: M. Emmet Walsh
M Emmet Walsh appeared in more than two hundred films, and Roger Ebert formulated the Stanton-Walsh Rule: no film containing either him or Harry Dean Stanton in a supporting role can be entirely bad.
Blood Simple gives him the lead antagonist, a private detective of enormous unpleasantness, and it is the Coen brothers’ first film.
Blade Runner gives him Bryant, who delivers the film’s most quoted piece of ugliness, and he worked constantly until his death in 2024.
