EDITOR’S NOTE: Fast-Walking was on the CBS Late Movie on June 19 and November 16, 1987.

Frank “Fast-Walking” Miniver (James Woods) is a prison guard making money on the side selling drugs and engaging in the transport of sex workers. His cousin, Wasco (Tom McIntire), is in the same jail and gets an entire business turned over to him by Frank after he intimidates Bullet (Timothy Carey).

In return, Wasco has his girl Moke (Kay Lenz) seduce his cousin. But things won’t be perfect forever, as when Frank develops feelings, Wasco becomes enraged. They also come to a head about the murder of Galliot (Robert Hooks), a political prisoner. Galliot pays Frank $50,000 to get him out alive. He didn’t count on how good a shot Moke is.

Director, writer and producer James B. Harris read Ernest Brawley’s The Rap and was inspired to make it into a movie. Shot in the Montana State Prison building in Deer Lodge, Montana, it feels real.

I can’t imagine how much was cut for the CBS Late Movie, as Lenz is volcanic in her nude and love scenes, while this also has M. Emmett Walsh full frontal. Plus, Susan Tyrrell is in it? Wow.