I can only remember two scenes of this movie, I believe it was set during the depression in America.

In one scene, two men who have been travelling together start to have an argument (they might be thiefs on the run). One of the men has a shotgun, and the other man takes it from him during the argument, and whilst standing in a muddy field he pretends to be leaning on the shotgun while in fact he's deliberately pressing the end into the mud blocking it. After the argument he hands it back, and turns his back on him expecting him to shoot him in the back, which he does and he dies.

Near the end of the movie:

The man then takes a job repairing a roof in the countryside for free food and board whilst hiding from the police, when one day he notices several people moving towards the house, he realises it's the police and he's no chance of escape, he sends the owner of the house down as not to be hurt, I remember the owner saying as he goes down that it was not him that turned him in, and the man says 'i know you didn't'.

That's all I can remember, I think he made sure he wasn't taken alive.

I saw this movie around 20 - 25 years ago.

Thanks.