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Straight to Hell|Dick Rude

Straight to Hell

Dick Rude and Courtney Love
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Overview

This comedy/western/musical is perhaps the strangest film by cult writer-director Alex Cox. After a botched robbery, a band of thieves heads for the desert to take shelter, only to find that the wilderness hamlet into which they've stumbled is run by a murderous, incestuous clan of coffee addicts who are struggling for control against a small band of misfits and a greedy land developer. It all makes for weird, weird stuff, highlighted by a spontaneous song-and-dance production number and cameos from such punk luminaries as Elvis Costello (as a coffee-dispensing butler) and the Pogues (as three brain-dead caballeros).

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Main Cast & Crew:
Alex Cox - Director
Dick Rude
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Courtney Love
Sy Richardson
Joe Strummer
Gloria Miralles Ruiz
Juan Uribe
Joe Cashman
Jose Pomedio Monedero
Sara Sugarman

Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray (Director's Cut / Edition)
  • Run Time: 91
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 738329226640
  • Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
  • Rating: R (MPAA)
  • Release Date: August 2018

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
Idiosyncratic filmmaker Alex Cox (REPO MAN) directed this parody/homage to the fierce westerns of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. After a trio of dirty gunslingers--Norwood, Simms, and Willy--hold up a bank, they ditch the dough and hide out with a spaced-out gal pal in a small western town. But they soon find that the wilderness hamlet into which they've stumbled is run by a murderous, incestuous clan of coffee addicts who are struggling for control against a small band of misfits and a greedy land developer. While the film is looser in structure than Cox's earlier REPO MAN and SID & NANCY, its strange pleasures include a spontaneous song-and-dance production number, the hysterically funny "Wiener Song," and cameos from such punk luminaries as Elvis Costello (as a coffee-dispensing butler) and the Pogues (as three brain-dead caballeros). The film is very weird, yet strangely rewarding.

Notes:
Director/co-writer Alex Cox has cast this film with a variety of notable musical performers such as Elvis Costello, Grace Jones, Courtney Love and Joe Strummer of The Clash. Cox also includes in "Straight to Hell" independent-minded filmmakers like Dennis Hopper and Jim Jarmusch. Screened at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Reviews:
"[A] wacko slapstick pantomime....[With a] starry cast of musicians, including Elvis Costello, Joe Strummer and The Pogues." - 01/01/2006 Uncut, p.138


"[With] a wildly eclectic cast including everybody from Kathy Burke to Dennis Hopper and Jim Jarmusch." - 02/01/2006 Sight and Sound, p.91


4 stars out of 5 -- "Cox's homage to the spaghetti western and the Marquis de Sade, is still a brilliant achievement..." - 03/01/2006 Mojo, p.116

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