Blood Simple.

Blood Simple.

Ray

Abby

Private Detective Loren Visser

Meurice

Debra

Landlady

Man from Lubbock

Mr. Garcia

Old Cracker

Strip Bar Exhorter

Strip Bar Senator

Stripper

Girl on Overlook

Radio Evangelist (voice) (as Rev. William Preston Robertson)

Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)

Marty's Vomiting (voice) (uncredited)

The infamous "body disposal" scene lasts just over 13 minutes and contains no dialogue, except for what we hear on a car radio.

M. Emmet Walsh's part was written specifically for the actor.

The finished film was brought to L.A. and shown to the major studios, and all passed on the movie. Later that year it was accepted into the 1984 New York Film Festival, and then shown at the Toronto Film Festival, where a deal was made with Circle Films to distribute the movie domestically.

After Marty pukes up blood on Ray's shirt, the amount and color of the blood keeps changing.

The amount of blood on Loren's glove changes from before he pulls out the knife, and after he's shot and lying on the floor.

After Visser shoots Marty, he drops the revolver without cocking it, so the shell under the hammer is an empty one. He kicks the gun across the floor, still without cocking it. When Ray visits the bar later on, the gun somehow manages to cock and fire itself just from the pressure of Ray's feet on the floorboards.

Abby: [after shooting Visser] I'm not afraid o' you, Marty.

Marty: Lover-boy oughta lock his door. I love you... That's a stupid thing to say, right?

Abby: I ain't done nothing funny.