Michael tries to leave town but a car accident leads him to encounter the local sheriff, who turns out to be Wayne. Michael visits Wayne's wife, Suzanne, and instead of killing her, he attempts to warn her that her life is in danger. Wayne offers him a stack of cash-'half now, half later'-and Michael plays along by taking the money. A local bar owner named Wayne mistakes him for a hitman, 'Lyle from Dallas', whom Wayne has hired to kill his wife. A job on an oilfield falls through due to his unwillingness to conceal a war injury on his job application, so Michael wanders into rural Red Rock, Wyoming, looking for other work. Michael Williams is a drifter living out of his car after being discharged from the Marine Corps.
It was written by Dahl and his brother Rick, and shot in Montana, Willcox, Arizona, Sonoita, Arizona and Elgin, Arizona. Red Rock West is a 1993 American post-Western neo-noir thriller film directed by John Dahl and starring Nicolas Cage, Lara Flynn Boyle, J.
