| Overview: | The most controversial film ever made.
James M. Cain's ("Mildred Pierce", "Double Indemnity") once-shocking 1946 novel "has been turned into a most entertainingly sleazy melodrama."
Jess Tyler, played in good, legitimate, laconic style by Stacy Keach, is now a desert hermit, left to guard an abandoned silver mine. After years of isolation, Jess is suddenly confronted by the return of his long-lost daughter Kady (Pia Zadora) who, as a baby, had been taken away by Belle (Lois Nettleton), Jess's wife, along with an older daughter.
It's the premise of ''Butterfly'' that Kady is every father's most forbidden dream come true--an available, slutty, innocent, trampish daughter. "The movie looks parched and dry, everything so dusty and unwashed you can almost smell it in a way that Cain might have appreciated." -Vincent Canby, The New York Times
Original score by Ennio Morricone.
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