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In Broad Daylight

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In Broad Daylight	comment	A Made-for-TV Movie directed by James Steven Sadwith about residents of a northwest Missouri community dealing with local bully Len Rowan and his family. Despite the numerous crimes committed by Rowan, local law enforcement has little luck with holding Rowan accountable due to Rowan's lawyer and Rowan's intimidation of any witnesses. As Rowan's behavior escalates, local residents struggle with how to deal with Rowan, culminating in at least two residents taking the law into their own hands and murdering Rowan.The film is loosely based upon the case of Ken Rex McElroy, who was murdered in Skidmore, Missouri after a one-man reign of terror against local residents. To this day McElroy's killers have never been identified, although locals are believed to have known who fired the shots that killed him.
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In Broad Daylight / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
In Broad Daylight / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: The character of Sheriff Phil Lewis was loosely based on Danny Estes (1947-2017), who was only 34 years old when McElroy was shot. Sheriff Lewis, on the other hand appears to be significantly older even though Tony Frank was only about four years older than Estes.
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In Broad Daylight / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
In Broad Daylight / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: The vast majority of the community members are OK with the means used to kill Rowan as they all felt he deserved such a death, with some of them even mentioning the bible as a justification for killing the man.
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In Broad Daylight / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
In Broad Daylight / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Having had enough of Rowan's reign of terror, two or more Darby residents shoot Rowan from behind while he is seated in his pickup truck.
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In Broad Daylight / int_21f60711	type	Good Is Not Soft
In Broad Daylight / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: As one of the local Missouri Highway Patrol troopers, Jack Wilson is one of the few people totally unafraid of Rowan and willing to stand up to him, to the point that he asks one of Rowan's few friends to take a message to Rowan that if he continues to harass Wilson's wife that Rowan would soon see the barrel of a 357 on a lonesome road, and it would be the last one he would ever see.
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In Broad Daylight / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
In Broad Daylight / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Rowan. He is psychologically unstable and most of the people in the area are afraid of him to the point that they actively avoid going in to town when they know he will be there. Rowan additionally has a tendency to settle matters with firearms or burning down residences of other people.
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In Broad Daylight / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
In Broad Daylight / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The film starts with Rowan burning down someoneâ€™s house. It ends with someone burning down Rowan's house once he's dead.
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In Broad Daylight / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
In Broad Daylight / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Along with everything else that was changed, the movie depicted Rowan as being killed in the fall of the year, however the actual killing of McElroy occurred happened in July 1981. In other words, the middle of summer.
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In Broad Daylight / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
In Broad Daylight / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Local law enforcement is largely unable to deal effectively with Rowan due to his lawyer's skill at getting him out of trouble with the law, and a judiciary that largely looks the other way when Rowan commits crimes.
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In Broad Daylight / int_6318b5c8	type	Obstructive Vigilantism
In Broad Daylight / int_6318b5c8	comment	Obstructive Vigilantism: After Rowan is shot no one in town saw or heard the shooter when interviewed by sheriff's deputies.
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In Broad Daylight / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
In Broad Daylight / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: Many of the town residents light up at one point or another, given how much more acceptable smoking in public was at the time.
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In Broad Daylight / int_71bf37e3	type	Vigilante Militia
In Broad Daylight / int_71bf37e3	comment	Vigilante Militia: Learning that Rowan is about to get away again with his crimes yet again, residents of the town take matters into their own hands.
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In Broad Daylight / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
In Broad Daylight / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Rowan frequently boasts about how he can get away with various crimes due to the inability of the legal system to hold him accountable.
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In Broad Daylight / int_8cb66c2f	type	Who Murdered the Asshole
In Broad Daylight / int_8cb66c2f	comment	Who Murdered the Asshole: Following Rowan's death, law enforcement has to answer this question despite the challenges inherit in answering such a question when the victim is so despised.
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In Broad Daylight / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
In Broad Daylight / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Rowan. This guy tormented the town and bullied the people until one or more individuals stood up and killed him. Outside his family and few friends, no one's really sorry Rowan is dead.
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In Broad Daylight / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
In Broad Daylight / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Darby becomes this after two or more townspeople shoot Rowan.
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In Broad Daylight / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
In Broad Daylight / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Len Rowan's attorney Virgil Teague, who helps him not only dodge a statutory rape charge, but also helps get him off the hook for other serious offenses such as attempted murder.note For all the audience knows, Teague might have hated McElroy's guts but put his duties as an attorney first and represented McElroy to the best of his ability as required of attorneys when representing clients.
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In Broad Daylight / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
In Broad Daylight / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Sheriff Lewis not only spends a great deal of time trying to keep the townspeople safe from Rowan, but in turn tries to keep Rowan and his family safe from townspeople.
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In Broad Daylight / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
In Broad Daylight / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Rowan. He's a despicable monster who has shot both dogs and human beings, forced himself on children, and spends his days parked in front of the homes of potential witnesses in order to intimidate them out of testifying against him.
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In Broad Daylight / int_ec40626	type	Love Martyr
In Broad Daylight / int_ec40626	comment	Love Martyr: Len's wife Adina following their marriage.
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In Broad Daylight / int_f56d2c81	type	Everyone Is Armed
In Broad Daylight / int_f56d2c81	comment	Everyone Is Armed: Not only are Rowan and his female companions armed, but just about everyone in Darby, Missouri is armed as well. Even the town preacher is shown to be carrying a pistol at one point in the film, which he shows to Rowan when walking by his truck one day.
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