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Oct 2022
36m 12s

The Desert Drifter

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For nineteen-year-old Will Kleier and his best friends, Jon Perez and Keyton Cornelius, both twenty-years-old, visiting the family ranch at Indian Creek is all about hiking, hunting and enjoying the California high desert - as long as they're back before sundown. But when the teens journey in to the desert this time, they're met by an armed and dangerous drifter. With no cell phone service or neighbors for miles, Will and his friends are left alone to face a madman.


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