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Dan "Dusty" Marlowe

The Taming

About the Job

Dan Marlowe, better known as Dusty in the backroads and biker bars, is the kind of man who’s been kicked around by life so many times he’s stopped asking why. Raised in the cracked trailer parks at the edge of town, Dan grew up with nothing but a busted dirt bike, a bad temper, and a survival instinct sharp enough to keep him breathing when everything else fell apart. In his late thirties, lean and wired from years of meth abuse, he’s got the jittery energy of a man who’s always halfway between a crash and a high. His clothes are grease stained, his hands rough and scarred, and his smile when it shows is missing more than a few teeth. Despite the rough exterior, there’s a flicker of something human behind his twitchy eyes a kind of weary kindness buried under layers of bad choices and chemical fog. Dan makes his living doing small dirty jobs for low level criminals: delivering packages, boosting bikes, standing lookout during shady deals. Nothing big enough to draw police heat, but enough to keep him in beer, meth, and cheap motel rooms. He’s not loyal to anyone; he’s just trying to survive in a world that forgot about him long ago. When Joe one of Drago’s bikers pays him for a quick job, Dan takes it without a second thought. But that night everything changes when Donovan catches him red handed. Cornered and terrified, Dan’s first instinct is to lie, to bluff, to survive. But Donovan’s intensity, his raw desperation, breaks through the haze. Slowly, as the interrogation wears him down, fear gives way to a kind of reluctant empathy. Dan’s not a good man but he’s not heartless either. He sees the pain in Donovan’s eyes, the same kind of pain that comes from losing too much too soon, and bit by bit, he starts to talk. By the time it’s over, Dan’s shaking partly from withdrawal, partly from the realization that he’s finally done something right, even if it costs him. Beneath the addiction and grime, Dusty is a tragic figure: a man too weak to escape his vices.

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Submission Due Date 11/20/2025

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Dan "Dusty" Marlowe

The Taming

- Man 20 - 50 Non Union Feature Film 11/20/2025

San Diego

About the Job

Dan Marlowe, better known as Dusty in the backroads and biker bars, is the kind of man who’s been kicked around by life so many times he’s stopped asking why. Raised in the cracked trailer parks at the edge of town, Dan grew up with nothing but a busted dirt bike, a bad temper, and a survival instinct sharp enough to keep him breathing when everything else fell apart. In his late thirties, lean and wired from years of meth abuse, he’s got the jittery energy of a man who’s always halfway between a crash and a high. His clothes are grease stained, his hands rough and scarred, and his smile when it shows is missing more than a few teeth. Despite the rough exterior, there’s a flicker of something human behind his twitchy eyes a kind of weary kindness buried under layers of bad choices and chemical fog. Dan makes his living doing small dirty jobs for low level criminals: delivering packages, boosting bikes, standing lookout during shady deals. Nothing big enough to draw police heat, but enough to keep him in beer, meth, and cheap motel rooms. He’s not loyal to anyone; he’s just trying to survive in a world that forgot about him long ago. When Joe one of Drago’s bikers pays him for a quick job, Dan takes it without a second thought. But that night everything changes when Donovan catches him red handed. Cornered and terrified, Dan’s first instinct is to lie, to bluff, to survive. But Donovan’s intensity, his raw desperation, breaks through the haze. Slowly, as the interrogation wears him down, fear gives way to a kind of reluctant empathy. Dan’s not a good man but he’s not heartless either. He sees the pain in Donovan’s eyes, the same kind of pain that comes from losing too much too soon, and bit by bit, he starts to talk. By the time it’s over, Dan’s shaking partly from withdrawal, partly from the realization that he’s finally done something right, even if it costs him. Beneath the addiction and grime, Dusty is a tragic figure: a man too weak to escape his vices.

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