Road House [Blu-ray]

Director: Rowdy Herrington Rowdy Herrington

Overview

Love, treachery, and broken furniture are the hallmarks of this rollicking action drama. Dalton (Patrick Swayze) has a Ph.D., but rather than make a living teaching Socrates at some university, he's opted to become a top-drawer "cooler" -- an expert barroom bouncer who can break up fights without getting himself killed in the process. Dalton is hired to keep the peace at the Double Deuce, a rough-and-tumble honky tonk in Jasper, Missouri, where beer-soaked free-for-alls are a nightly event. Dalton is hurt on his first night on the job, and he is patched up by "Doc" Clay (Kelly Lynch), a beautiful woman working as the town's physician. Dalton and Doc immediately hit it off, but Dalton learns that another man, Brad Wesley (Ben Gazzara), already has his eye on her. Wesley is a man used to getting his way; he's an extortionist and crime boss who has nearly everyone in Jasper under his thumb, and he sets out to teach Dalton a lesson, while Dalton is determined to clean up the town like he breaks up brawls at the Double Deuce. Sam Elliott plays Dalton's mentor Wade, and Red West, a one-time member of Elvis Presley's "Memphis Mafia," appears as Webster; Canadian blues-rock guitarist Jeff Healey leads the Double Deuce house band.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/15/2015
UPC:	0883904331438
Original Release:	1989
Source:	Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Language:	English
Time:	1:54:00
Sales rank:	2,908

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Patrick Swayze	Dalton
Kelly Lynch	Doc
Sam Elliott	Wade Garrett
Ben Gazzara	Brad Wesley
Julie Michaels	Denise
Red West	Red Webster
Sunshine Parker	Emmet
Jeff Healey	Cody
Kevin Tighe	Tilghman
Kathleen Wilhoite	Carrie Ann Nash
Travis McKenna	Jack
Roger Hewlett	Younger
Kurt James Stefka	Hank
Gary Hudson	Steve
Terry Funk	Morgan
Michael Rider	O'Connor
John Young	Tinker,Tinker
Anthony De Longis	Ketchum
Joe Unger	Karpis
Tiny Ron	Mountain
Sheila Caan	Judy
Jon Paul Jones	Stroudenmire
Lauri Crossman	Stella
Keith David	Ernie Bass
Ed DeFusco	Oscar
Humberto Larriva	Cruzado,Cruzados
Anthony Marsico	Cruzado,Cruzados
Gonzalo Quintana III	Cruzado
Marshall Rohner	Cruzado
John Oldach	Bandstand Tough Guy
Joey Plewa	Bandstand Tough Guy
Susan Lentini	Bandstand Babe
Patricia Tallman	Bandstand Babe
Mike Fisher	Bandstand Bouncer,Bandstand Bouncer
Bob A. Jennings	Bandstand Bouncer,Bandstand Bouncer
Dawn Ciccone	Steve's Girl
Julie Royer	Steve's Girl
Frank Noon	Barfly
Cristopher Collins	Sharing Husband
Cheryl Baker	Well-Endowed Wife,Table Dancer
Michael Wise	Gawker
Charles Hawke	Heckler
Tom Finnegan	Chief of Police
Christine Anderson	Party Girl
Lisa Axelrod	Party Girl
Debra Chase	Party Girl
Lisa Westman	Party Girl
Kymberly Herrin	Party Girl
Kym Malin	Party Girl
Heidi Paine	Party Girl
Jacklyn Palmer	Party Girl
Marta Rinchusiuso	Party Girl
Meg Thayer	Party Girl
Laura Albert	Strip Joint Girl
Christina Veronica Jasae	Strip Joint Girl,Strip Joint Girl
Michele Burger	Strip Joint Girl
Pamela Jackson	Strip Joint Girl
Daryl Marsh	Strip Joint Bartender
Laura Lee Kasten	Nurse
Bill Dunnam	Car Salesman
Terrance Scott	Loudmouth
Dennis Ott	Bar Character
Ancel Cook	Grillman
Chino Williams	Derelict,Derelict
Joseph Rockman	Member of Cody's Band
Thomas Stephen	Member of Cody's Band
Marshall R. Teague	Jimmy
Sheila Ryan	Judy
Jackie Burch	Actor
John Doe	Pat McGurn
Christina Veronica	Strip Joint Girl
Terri Doss	Cody's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Aaron Lacey	Marine
Michael Kamen	Composer

Technical Credits

David Lee Henry

Hilary Henkin

Rowdy Herrington	Director
Tim Moore	Executive Producer,Producer
Steven H. Perry	Executive Producer,Producer,Executive Producer
Charles Picerni	Stunts
Joel Silver	Producer,Director
David Lee Henry	Screenwriter
Destiny Borden	Sound Effects
Christopher Flick	Sound Effects
Bud Maffett	Sound Effects
Todd Overton	Sound Effects
Norman Schwartz	Sound Effects
Anthony De Longis	Stunts
William Aldridge	Special Effects
Pete Antico	Stunts
James Halty	Stunts
Chuck Picerni Jr.	Stunts
Hilary Henkin	Screenwriter
Al Di Sarro	Special Effects
Henry Kingi	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

History may relegate Patrick Swayze to the dust heap of Hollywood has-beens; but with his lead turn in Rowdy Herrington’s Road House, he stakes his claim to cinematic immortality. Swayze, clad in cowboy boots and skin-tight jeans, is Dalton, a former New York University philosophy student and martial arts expert who (we kid you not) works as a "cooler" (head bouncer) at a rough-and-tumble honky-tonk in Jasper, Missouri. This place is so tough that the house band (led by blind blues guitarist Jeff Healey) plays in a cage to protect them from flying bottles and hurled bodies. None of this fazes Dalton, who manages to: keep the unruly rednecks in line without mussing a strand of his blow-dried hair; clean up the town, which is under the thumb of a wealthy thug (Ben Gazzara); and get down with a hot blonde doctor (Kelly Lynch). Along the way he dodges monster trucks and mouths lines like "Pain don’t hurt" while stitching up his own wounds, Terminator-style. Is this schizophrenic mishmash of westerns, gangster films, and kung fu movies ludicrous? Completely, and that’s what makes Road House so much fun. Swayze, taking the role of soulful hunk to heart, plays the whole thing utterly straight: He’s the ultimate strong-silent screen archetype of the Reagan ‘80s. Bad movies just don’t get any better than this.

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