Question: Build a movie plot around this: Who tries to choke Callahan to death? Benjamin
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Madie Levrington (Dyan Cannon), a wealthy neurotic woman is committed to a New York mental institution by her unethical husband, Benjamin, in order to keep her from divorcing him and taking his money. She manages to escape by taking hostage her doctor (Michael Lerner) and leaving him behind in an open field, and flees into the night. As it begins to rain, Madie hitches a ride on a livestock truck.The truck is driven by Charles Callahan (Robert Blake), a moody cowboy who is reluctant to help her out. However, he hears over his CB radio about her escape and a substantial reward for her return. This gets his attention as he is so in debt that he has a repo man after him to repossess his truck. Upon arrivng at his home, Callahan is met by the repo man as well as his estranged wife which forces him to flee with Madie tagging along. She insists that he drive her back to California so she can confront her husband for abandoning her.The neurotic and unpredictiable Madie soon proves a handful to Callahan as she cannot stop talking about her unhappy life and gets him into trouble at times. The next day at a local road stop diner, she orders a large meal despite that she and Callahan have no money to pay for it and she is forced to wash dishes to make up for the tab. Next, Madie gets some money by hiring Callahan to transport a herd of cattle to Oklahoma without his permission.Behind her back, Callahan meets up with people who are out to get Madie, and gets part of the reward money from the woman bounty hunter Sam Klinger (Maxine Stuart) who leads them. At the same time, he is also slowly falling in love with her. He even teaches her to drive the truck (frantically, after he was hit in the crotch and sent flying by a bull).After camping out in an open field somewhere in Texas, Madie eventually finds the money he was given and she wonders how he got it. He then reluctantly explains how, trying to explain that he took it unwillingly. She doesn't believe him and ends up getting in the truck and driving off without...