April 20: King Yourself! — Pick a movie released by Crown International Pictures. Here’s a list!

Robert Strong (John Savage) goes to visit his brother Edward (Will McMillan) and his wife Joan (Anne Saxon), only for him to fall for his sister-in-law — yes, there’s the title — and meet his brother’s mistress Deborah Holt (Meridith Baer, who invented home staging and has a show on HGTV) and also — run-on sentence much? — get invovled in the drug trade.

Directed and written by Joseph Ruben (The Pom Pom Girls, Dreamscape, The Stepfather, Sleeping With the Enemy, The Good Son), this also has three songs by Savage on the soundtrack.

Oh, Crown International Pictures. Despite being called The Sister-In-Law, she disappears halfway through this movie and we never see her again. Instead, this becomes a heroin movie. Yes, there’s a cat fight, but this is really the story of two brothers — one who wants to be rich, another who is hitchhiking across the country — and the women are just in the way. And banjo music. So much banjo music.

The ending? A gut punch. Wow.

This is the only movie Anne Saxon ever made and she may have made it under an assumed name.