![]() ![]() Gazzara is perfect in the role of Wesley, he has that smile that just says “I love being bad”. This guy does whatever he wants and if anyone gets in his way, they either disappear or get beat down so hard they don’t do it again. Take the meanest spoiled rich kid you ever saw, now multiply that by 100. Jasper is run with an iron fist by one man, Brad Wesley ( Ben Gazzara). A sexy blonde named Denise ( Julie Michaels) also spots Dalton and she begins to hit on him throughout the film, but Dalton isn’t interested in cheap women like her. It takes alot of effort but when she finds out she lets him know, shes heard of him. While Dalton takes in the goings on, he meets Carrie Anne ( Kathleen Wilhoite), a slightly goofy waitress who asks Dalton who he is. He’s also blind, but he doesn’t let that stop him. It’s his old friend Cody ( Jeff Healey) a good guy who’s a great singer of Blues and Classic Rock. One thing lightens the mood Dalton is in, and thats when he hears the music coming from the stage. ![]() Everyone in there is either looking for trouble, fighting or drunk off their ass. It looks like a slaughterhouse from the outside and when Dalton gets inside, the place is as hillbilly as you can get, complete with chicken-wire around the stage. ![]() When Dalton arrives in town, we can see that the Double Deuce is a true roadhouse bar. Tighlman happily agrees and Dalton quits his NYC job and heads to Jasper after giving his car keys to an old wino on the street. Tighlman offers Dalton a large sum of money to work for him, Dalton agrees, but on one condition: he runs the show, no-one else and when the jobs finished he walks. Right from the start we see that to Dalton, this job is just business and not personal. Tighlman meets Dalton right after a small bar fight in which Dalton gets cut on the arm by a drunk patron who thinks he can whip Dalton’s ass. His first choice for the cooler is Dalton, who seems to be something of a legend to the people in the bar business. Enter Frank Tilghman ( Kevin Tighe) A bar owner from Jasper, Missouri who has recently come into a large sum of money and wants to redesign his club, “The Double Deuce” into a more respectable place. ROAD HOUSE tells the story of a cooler (head bar bouncer) named James Dalton ( Patrick Swayze) (he is only referred to as “Dalton” in the film) who we meet at the beginning of the film working at a club in what looks to be New York City. Some may call this one a guilty pleasure, but hey, I dig it. In my book, when there’s a film you can watch over and over and over again, it should be considered a good film regardless of it’s critical status. Now, many people may think this film is a minor work in the big scheme of cinema, but to me its a really entertaining genre film that I’ve watched numerous times and I can’t seem to get tired of. It’s been almost 30 years since the film came out and it appears on cable TV seemingly every week. It did have a few laughs, especially Swayze’s “Be Nice” monologue which was inter-cut with the action scenes. I wasn’t too impressed by Road House’s trailer at the time since I had been over-saturated with Swayze from the smash hit Dirty Dancing (1987). I remember seeing the preview for this film back at my first theatrical viewing of Tim Burton’s BATMAN. Wesley wants money from these people and is responsible for much mayhem.One of the most highly rewatchable films from the late 1980s is Rowdy Herrington’s Good Ol’ Boy action film ROAD HOUSE (1989). Dalton has rented a room from a man named Emmet, and has befriended local auto-parts store owner Red Webster, and has also befriended Pete Stroudenmire, the owner of Stroudenmire Ford, a local car dealership. Wesley is out to get rid of Dalton, who has already made some friends in Jasper. Wesley is also responsible for a lot of the violence at the Double Deuce, and for some time, Wesley has had the Sheriff in his pocket, giving him complete control of the town of Jasper. Dalton and Doc soon fall in love with each other, and this angers Brad Wesley, a crime boss, with whom Doc was once involved, and may still be involved. Dalton is injured on his first night on the job and is treated by Elizabeth “Doc” Clay, the local doctor. The band is led by Dalton’s old friend Cody, who is blind. There’s even a cage protecting the bar’s band from the customers. Frank Tilghman, the owner of the Double Deuce in Jasper, Missouri, has hired Dalton away from a bar in New York City, because Tilghman needs someone who can handle the nightly outbreaks of violence at the Double Deuce, and teach the rest of the Double Deuce’s bouncers how to handle it. Stars: Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott Wannahave a poster?ĭalton is an expert “cooler,” a bar-room bouncer who can break up fights without getting himself killed in the process. A tough bouncer is hired to tame a dirty bar. ![]()
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