The Hot Spot (1990)

The Hot Spot is a 1990 American drama film directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, and Jennifer Connelly. Based on the book Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams, the film's soundtrack features a score by Jack Nitzsche played by John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis, Taj Mahal and Roy Rogers.

Drifter Harry Madox takes a job as a used car salesman in a small Texas town. In the summer heat, he develops an interest in a couple of hot women, one who works at the car dealership and another who is married to its owner. Gloria Harper is a young, innocent-seeming woman with a secret. It somehow involves a sleazy local man named Frank Sutton who appears to have some hold on her. Dolly Harshaw is a seductive, anything-goes femme fatale married to George Harshaw, the car dealer. She keeps a gun handy and likes to have sex in unusual, dangerous ways. Harry carries on with both while looking for an opportunity to rob the local bank. It ultimately is revealed that Sutton has nude photographs of Gloria, taken from a distance at a remote lakeside setting. Harry lies in wait for Sutton one night and viciously beats him. Dolly begins to see Harry as her ticket to better things. When she coaxes her husband into bed, it is only to bring George's weak heart to a fatal end. A sheriff arrests Harry, suspecting him in the bank job, but can't prove it. Harry decides to leave town with Gloria by his side, but Dolly puts an end to that by revealing to Gloria everything else Harry has been doing in town, including her.