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Straight to Hell (VHS, 1987) 
Straight to Hell (VHS, 1987)

 
Straight to Hell (VHS, 1987)

Leading Role: Sy Richardson
Director: Alex Cox
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: Dec 1987
Format: VHS
UPC: 086162385933
Product ID: EPID3135168
Description: 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 stumb...
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Movie Description
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).

Credits
Cast:Elvis Costello, Grace Jones, Jim Jarmusch, The Pogues, Zander Schloss

Details
Sound:HiFi Sound, Stereo Sound

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.

Editorial Reviews
"[A] wacko slapstick pantomime....[With a] starry cast of musicians, including Elvis Costello, Joe Strummer and The Pogues."
Uncut - Stephen Dalton (01/01/2006)

"[With] a wildly eclectic cast including everybody from Kathy Burke to Dennis Hopper and Jim Jarmusch."
Sight and Sound - Geoffrey Macnab (02/01/2006)

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

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