When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?

There is a roadside diner in New Mexico. It is called Foster’s. A new highway took its customers away. A few people work inside. The cook goes by the nickname Red Ryder. The waitress is Angel. There is a boss as well. The morning starts out ordinary. Then a car breaks down. Teddy gets out of it. His girlfriend Cheryl is with him. Teddy has a gun. With it he takes everyone in the diner hostage. What follows turns into a display of power. The film shows it without dwelling on detail. The story comes from a play by Mark Medoff. Medoff wrote the screenplay too. Marjoe Gortner, Candy Clark, Lee Grant and Anne Ramsey appear in the hundred and thirteen minute film, an American production Milton Katselas finished in 1979.