In " The Devil Thumbs a Ride and Other Movies " ( New York : Grove Press, 1988 ), author Barry Gifford, citing personal experience of an attempted pickup by the actor, suggests that Wilcoxon was bisexual.
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Like those postwar " noir " classics " Detour " and " The Devil Thumbs a Ride " and the more recent breakthroughs " Blood Simple " and " Red Rock West, " this new arrival called " Hard Eight " comes smack out of left field _ a stunner of rare ferocity.
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Universal Records, at the time a brand new start up label, heard of the success of " Grip " and signed the band as their second artist ever . " Devil Thumbs a Ride ", the 3rd album, had already been recorded and mastered and was about to be manufactured for another self-release when Universal stepped in to sign the band and release the album as-is.
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RKO assigned him other tough-guy roles, including Jesse James in " Badman's Territory " ( 1946 ), a reformed prison inmate in " San Quentin " ( 1946 ), and an ex-Marine falsely accused of murder in " Born to Kill " and a homicidal hitch-hiker in Felix E . Feist s " The Devil Thumbs a Ride ".
