''Stark Raving Mad'' is a 1981 American

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

directed by George F. Hood, written by Don Gronquist, and starring Russ Faust and Marcie Severson. It depicts a fictionalized account of the

Charles Starkweather Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958, when he was nineteen years old. He killed ten of his victi ...

and

Caril Ann Fugate Caril Ann Fugate (born July 30, 1943) is the youngest female in United States history to have been tried and convicted of first-degree murder. She was the adolescent girlfriend of spree killer Charles Starkweather, being just 14 years old when h ...

killings of the 1950s. It was released in January 1983.

Plot

The film opens with convicted

serial killer A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more persons,A * * * * with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. While most authorities set a threshold of three ...

Richard Stark on

death row Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting Capital punishment, execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of ...

and awaiting execution. While he waits in the death cell, he begins to relate the story of the circumstances that led to his present situation.

Release

The film was released in

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

as ''Execution'' and in

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

as ''Murder Run''.

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* 1981 films 1981 crime drama films American crime drama films Biographical films about serial killers 1980s drama road movies American drama road movies Cultural depictions of male serial killers Cultural depictions of American men 1980s English-language films 1980s American films {{1980s-crime-drama-film-stub

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