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Overview

User Rating:
5.8/10   12,746 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
David Lee Henry (story)
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Release Date:
19 May 1989 (USA) more
Tagline:
The dancing's over. Now it gets dirty. more
Plot:
A tough bouncer is hired to tame a dirty bar. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
5 nominations more
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(72 articles)
Your Thanksgiving TV marathon guide: Saturday
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Family Guy Quotes: "Brian's Got a Brand New Bag"
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Example of great B-movie action more (166 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Patrick Swayze ... Dalton

Kelly Lynch ... Doc

Sam Elliott ... Wade Garrett

Ben Gazzara ... Brad Wesley

Marshall R. Teague ... Jimmy (as Marshall Teague)

Julie Michaels ... Denise
Red West ... Red Webster
Sunshine Parker ... Emmet (as 'Sunshine' Parker)
Jeff Healey ... Cody
Kevin Tighe ... Tilghman
John Doe ... Pat McGurn
Kathleen Wilhoite ... Carrie
Travis McKenna ... Jack

Roger Hewlett ... Younger

Kurt James Stefka ... Hank
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Runtime:
114 min
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Trivia:
The band playing at the start of the movie is the band Cruzados. After the band disbanded, the singer Tito Larriva formed the band Tito & Tarantula, which is the band that plays at the Titty Twister in the movie From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: Supposed to be set in Jasper, Missouri, yet if you look carefully in one scene, you can see a road sign with a California highway marker in the background. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Bouncer Checking IDs: [to Frank Tilghman, as he enters the Bandstand] Go ahead, sir.
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39 out of 54 people found the following comment useful.
Example of great B-movie action, 31 October 2001
10/10
Author: kenandraf from Honolulu, Hawaii

A good example of how a great B-movie should be made.It entertains and gives the fans of it's genre straight up satisfaction without expecting the audience to take the whole story too seriously.Much like reading a good comic book.Here we have a good action comedy/drama with good action choreography and a simple plot of good versus evil and why each side does what it does.The acting is adequate and the cast chosen here was also good.The production values were all average but still,the overall flow of the movie just delivers for all those fans who understand B-action movies.This is the Swayze and Elliot I love.......

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