Tonight's Movie: Deadman's Curve (1978) (and Concert in the Rocks)

I'm back from a wonderful few days traveling up and down Highway 395.I spent last weekend in Lone Pine, where I attended the Concert in the Rocks for this first time. This annual event in the Alabama Hills benefits Lone Pine's Museum of Western Film History.This year's concert featured Dean Torrence, formerly of Jan and Dean, backed by the Surf City AllStars. They sang a lively concert of "beach" music made popular by Jan and Dean, as well as the Beach Boys.Dean is now 86, but I never would have guessed it from his lively 90-minute performance had I not been aware of how many decades had passed since the start of his music career!More on the concert further down in this post, but first, a look at the TV-movie DEADMAN'S CURVE (1978), which I'd never seen before.The film was shown twice on June 13th in the museum theater; I attended the 10:00 a.m. showing. The print wasn't particularly good but was chosen because better prints are incomplete, rather than the film's 96 minutes. I quickly…