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Sam Elliott Is 'The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then Bigfoot' — Or Is He?

First-time writer-director Robert D. Krzykowski's odd, flashback-besotted film is a love letter to its leading man, who plays a World War II veteran struggling to remember his past.
In <em>The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot, </em>Sam Elliott stars as an esteemed war veteran who helped kill Hitler. Years later, he's on a new mission — to kill Bigfoot.

If you left A Star is Born: Take Four wanting more where co-star Sam Elliott's scene-stealing performance came from, check out The Man Who Killed Bigfoot and Then Hitler.

No, seriously: is a real movie — one more emotionally resonant and character-driven than that deceptively goony title suggests. The film — writer/producer Robert D. Krzykowski's directorial feature debut — features a great lead performance from Elliott as Calvin Barr, a disillusioned World War II vet who struggles to

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