Podcast 72: Road House

August 3, 2022 Jon S Movies, Podcasting 01:37:43139MB 0 Comments
Road House

The 3 Guys Podcast

Recorded on 7/28/2022

The dancing’s over. Now it gets dirty. In this podcast, we review the 80s action classic Road House starring Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott and directed by Rowdy Herrington. WARNING: There will be SPOILERS!

The 3 Guys Rating

3.2/5

Notes From The Show

  • Quick Synopsis

  • Released: May 19, 1989

    Directed By: Rowdy Herrington

    Screenplay By:  David Lee Henry & Hilary Henkin

    Story By:  David Lee Henry

    Stars: Patrick Swayze, Ben Gazzara, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Kevin Tighe, Marshall Teague and a bunch of other actors

    Plot:  A tough bouncer is hired to tame a dirty bar.

    Taglines: “Dalton lives like a loner, fights like a professional. And loves like there’s no tomorrow.” & “The dancing’s over. Now it gets dirty.”

    How did this movie do?
    Budget: $15 Million
    Box Office: $62 Million

  • 80s Action Cuts

    • Body count: 8
    • Car: Silver light blue 1986 Mercedes-Benz SEC 560 (C126)
    • Top One-Liners
      • Dalton: I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice.
      • Dalton: Take the biggest guy in the world, shatter his knee and he’ll drop like a stone.
      • Dalton: Pain don’t hurt.
      • Dalton: Nobody ever wins a fight.
      • Wade Garrett: That gal’s got entirely too many brains to have an ass like that.
      • Emmett: Calling me ‘sir’ is like putting an elevator in an outhouse, it don’t belong. I’m Emmett.
      • Wade Garrett: This place has a sign hangin’ over the urinal that says, “Don’t eat the big white mint”.
      • Dalton: My way… or the highway.
      • Everyone: I thought you’d be bigger.

  • Sequel & Musical

    • A sequel, Road House 2, was released directly to DVD in July 2006. Set many years later and telling the story of Dalton’s adult son, it featured no characters from the original cast and only a few references to Dalton (who was reportedly shot dead before the film took place).
    • The sequel confirmed that Dalton’s first name was James, which could be seen momentarily on the medical chart in the original film’s hospital scene.
    • In 2003, an off-Broadway musical production of Road House was staged as a campy comedy by Timothy Haskell, as seen by its full title of Road House: The Stage Version Of The Cinema Classic That Starred Patrick Swayze, Except This One Stars Taimak From The 80’s Cult Classic “The Last Dragon” Wearing A Blonde Mullet Wig.

  • Trivia

    • According to Kelly Lynch, whenever Bill Murray sees her sex scene with Patrick Swayze on television, he calls her husband, Mitch Glazer, to tease him about it.

    • Due to a knee injury he sustained during filming, Patrick Swayze turned down the roles of Gabriel Cash in Tango & Cash (1989) and Mike Harrigan in Predator 2 (1990). He chose to make Ghost (1990) as his follow-up instead, as it was a less physically strenuous role. The knee injury ended up being a blessing in disguise, as Ghost (1990) ended up being a big hit, and received critical acclaim. “Tango & Cash” was a box office flop, as was “Road House.”

    • Marshall R. Teague (Jimmy) initially didn’t get along with Patrick Swayze (Dalton), but while filming their big fight, both men quickly realized they shared a dedication to realistic stunts, which improved their relationship. They developed so much mutual trust that they improvised a lot, and allowed each other to throw real punches and kicks. When Jimmy swings a log at Dalton, Teague mistakenly thought it was a breakable prop log. By the end, Swayze was covered in bruises and had two broken ribs and a busted knee.

    • The monster truck that drives through the Ford dealership is Bigfoot 7, driven by former vice president of Bigfoot 4×4 Jim Kramer. It cost $500,000 and was done in one take. Bigfoot had to be repainted after the scene, and went on to crush cars throughout the country and the world.

    • Marshall Teague told a story that he took his mother to the premiere of the movie. When the fight against Dalton happens and he says the line, “I used to F* guys like you in prison!” his mother jumped up and proudly shouted, “That’s my boy!”

    • After the five-day long shoot fighting Marshall R. Teague, Patrick Swayze needed 2.5 ounces of fluid drained from his left knee. He apparently had been suffering through knee problems before, needing a similar procedure during production on Dirty Dancing (1987).

    • Patrick Swayze wrote one song, “Cliff’s Edge,” and sang two for the movie’s soundtrack, that one and “Raising Heaven (in Hell) Tonight.”

    • The garage where Dalton’s Mercedes is stored is the same one where Reggie Hammond’s Porsche is stored in 48 hrs.

    • It’s a toss-up who used more hair spray in the movie: Patrick Swayze or Kelly Lynch. Swayze joked, “That hair turned into the bane of my existence.”

    • Patrick Swayze and Ben Gazzara died of pancreatic cancer, Swayze in 2009 and Gazzara in 2012.

    • Many of the characters’ names are taken from infamous or famous wild west personalities: Wade Garrett shares his surname with Pat Garrett, the Sheriff who shot and killed Billy the Kid. Brad Wesley, the main villain in the film, has the same last name as the middle name of John Wesley Hardin, one of the most notorious and cold-blooded killers in the history of the west (he once fired through a wall into the next room of a hotel where he was sleeping and killed a man whose snoring was bothering him). Kelly Lynch’s character was nicknamed “Doc,” a nickname shared with gunfighter John Henry “Doc” Holliday. The character who owns the barn where Dalton rents a room, Emmett, has the first name of Emmett Dalton, leader of the notorious bandit ring The Dalton Gang. The “Double Deuce” bar owner “Tilghman” is named after lawman Bill Tilghman of Dodge City and Oklahoma fame. Finally, there is a character named Younger, which was the last name of Cole Younger, another notorious western bandit and killer.

    • On Family Guy (1998) season eight, episode four, “Brian’s Got a Brand New Bag,” Peter Griffin buys the Road House DVD at a going-out-of-business sale at Quahog Video. After watching the film, Peter comically decides that all of life’s problems can be solved by kicking. After kicking his target, he would say the film’s title as a catchphrase. The episode was dedicated to Patrick Swayze, who had died of pancreatic cancer several weeks before the episode aired.

    • The movie’s humor is somewhat intentional. Director Rowdy Herrington said he wanted to make the fights “like a Keystone Cops melee.”

    • According to cast and crew, and also the 1989 interview with actor Sam Eliot, original cut of the movie was three hours and twenty minutes long, which meant that lot of the stuff had to be cut out. Some of the deleted scenes include Dalton making the other bouncers wear ballet outfits and dance as part of their training, and there is also a still picture showing Dalton fighting with Ketchum (guy with knife-boot) inside the Double Deuce in a different fight than the one in the film, and most of Kathleen Wilhoite’s scenes (who played Carrie Ann) were deleted.

    • Joel Silver thought the set of the Double Deuce was too nice. He ordered the crew to really tear it up so it would look more like a dive.

    • Kelly Lynch spent a month in a real emergency room preparing for her role. She also learned how to sew a proper stitch for one scene, but it was changed to staples.

    • Red’s Auto Supply Store explosion woke the neighbors. They thought that MGM studios was burning down. It cost $25,000 to shoot that scene.

    • The car that Dalton bought at the used car lot was a 1965 Buick Riviera, the only year that Buick used the “clamshell” headlight covers for the Riviera. The other car that he drives near the beginning of the movie before picking up his Mercedes-Benz and leaving for Missouri was a 1964 Buick Riviera.

    • The film’s knife maker, Jack Crain, made blades for Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988), and Demolition Man (1993). All four movies were produced by Joel Silver.

    • The film was inspired by a real story where a local bad guy was killed in plain view. Nobody saw anything then either.

    • Red West, once a member of Elvis Presley’s “Memphis Mafia, played characters named Red in this movie, Almost Made (2004), The A-Team (1983) season four, episode seventeen, “Waiting for Insane Wayne.” and “Walking Tall Part 2″(1974).

    • Patrick Swayze had to have bodyguards during filming because female fans would mob him.

    • It was Sam Elliott’s idea for his character to call Dalton “mijo,” which is Spanish for “son.”

    • The book Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is reading is Jim Harrison’s “Legends of the Fall.”

    • The different fighting styles used in the movie, include basic street scuffling, boxing, kickboxing, karate, jiujitsu, Taekwondo, hapkido, judo, and tai chi.

    • The film was a severe disappointment for Patrick Swayze, as he was hoping to have another major hit like “Dirty Dancing.”

    • Patrick Swayze reportedly agreed to do this movie so long as he could keep any and all of his wardrobe once filming was completed. He had made a similar demand for his costuming from Ghost but his agent at the time was unable to secure the deal.

    • Director Rowdy Herrington wanted to show that Dalton still had to do regular things like laundry.

    • Dalton’s rules of bouncing goes as followed: 1) Never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. 2) Take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it is absolutely necessary and 3) Be nice.

    • There are several things that are related to Elvis Presley: Back in the Double Deuce after Red’s auto-parts store is blown up, Brad Wesley tells Cody “Elvis, play something with balls”; Marshall R. Teague (Jimmy) played Rick Colton, a martial arts instructor who had an affair with Priscilla Presley) in Elvis and Me (1988), which was based on Priscilla’s autobiography; Red West, who played Red Webster, knew Elvis Presley in high school and was a member of “The Memphis Mafia.”

    • According to director Rowdy Herrington, there were about 50 stuntmen in the movie, mostly for the bar brawls.

    • Dalton doesn’t strike anyone until 26 minutes into the film.

    • Swayze had both groins insured for over $3 million such was their importance to the plot. Towards the end of filming, production was briefly stopped when Patrick felt what he thought was muscle tightness but the medic discovered Swayze had accidentally put on 2 pairs of underpants that day.

    • When Bigfoot drove through the auto showroom at the Ford dealership, there was no roof on the building.

    • Patrick Swayze considered Road House to be a modern day western with Dalton being the gunfighter for hire and Brad Wesley being the local bully.

    • Patrick Swayze and Marshall R. Teague became very close friends after filming was completed.

    • Sam Elliott and Ben Gazzara were in The Big Lebowski (1998).

    • There are nine major fights in the movie. Rowdy Herrington tried to make each one unique.

    • According to Rowdy Herrington, Ben Gazzara probably ate around 12 eggs while filming one scene.

    • Producer trademark [Joel Silver]: Explosions, which occur after Red’s shop and Emmett’s house are both set on fire.

    • Michael Kamen recycled some of the musical cues from Die Hard.

    • Dalton has a degree in philosophy from NYU.

    • Screenwriter R. Lance Hill has said that while he named the protagonist of Dalton out of his respect for the town of Dalton, GA, that no sane parent would name their son Dalton.

    • The make, model and color of Dalton’s (Patrick Swayze’s) Mercedes-Benz, according to the IMCDb, was a silver light blue 1986 Mercedes-Benz SEC 560 (C126).

    • When Wade has been stabbed to death, with a note saying, “It was tails,” referring to Wesley flipping a coin. Later, it’s shown the knife belongs to Ketchum, then Dalton stabs Ketchum saying, “Tails again!” If you look at the scene with the Mercedes when you see Dalton stuck this same knife in the gas pedal, as Ketchum goes to retrieve it, the handle of the knife is capped off with a quarter, tails side showing.

    • Kelly Lynch wore padding for the love scene between Dalton and Doc for protection because Patrick Swayze was slamming Kelly Lynch against the wall.

    • The fight between Dalton and Jimmy took 5 – 6 days to film.

    • Kelly Lynch got into trouble because she laughed when Jimmy’s death scene was shot.

Released: May 19, 1989

Directed By: Rowdy Herrington

Screenplay By:  David Lee Henry & Hilary Henkin

Story By:  David Lee Henry

Stars: Patrick Swayze, Ben Gazzara, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Kevin Tighe, Marshall Teague and a bunch of other actors

Plot:  A tough bouncer is hired to tame a dirty bar.

Taglines: “Dalton lives like a loner, fights like a professional. And loves like there’s no tomorrow.” & “The dancing’s over. Now it gets dirty.”

How did this movie do?
Budget: $15 Million
Box Office: $62 Million

  • Body count: 8
  • Car: Silver light blue 1986 Mercedes-Benz SEC 560 (C126)
  • Top One-Liners
    • Dalton: I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice.
    • Dalton: Take the biggest guy in the world, shatter his knee and he’ll drop like a stone.
    • Dalton: Pain don’t hurt.
    • Dalton: Nobody ever wins a fight.
    • Wade Garrett: That gal’s got entirely too many brains to have an ass like that.
    • Emmett: Calling me ‘sir’ is like putting an elevator in an outhouse, it don’t belong. I’m Emmett.
    • Wade Garrett: This place has a sign hangin’ over the urinal that says, “Don’t eat the big white mint”.
    • Dalton: My way… or the highway.
    • Everyone: I thought you’d be bigger.
  • A sequel, Road House 2, was released directly to DVD in July 2006. Set many years later and telling the story of Dalton’s adult son, it featured no characters from the original cast and only a few references to Dalton (who was reportedly shot dead before the film took place).
  • The sequel confirmed that Dalton’s first name was James, which could be seen momentarily on the medical chart in the original film’s hospital scene.
  • In 2003, an off-Broadway musical production of Road House was staged as a campy comedy by Timothy Haskell, as seen by its full title of Road House: The Stage Version Of The Cinema Classic That Starred Patrick Swayze, Except This One Stars Taimak From The 80’s Cult Classic “The Last Dragon” Wearing A Blonde Mullet Wig.
  • According to Kelly Lynch, whenever Bill Murray sees her sex scene with Patrick Swayze on television, he calls her husband, Mitch Glazer, to tease him about it.

  • Due to a knee injury he sustained during filming, Patrick Swayze turned down the roles of Gabriel Cash in Tango & Cash (1989) and Mike Harrigan in Predator 2 (1990). He chose to make Ghost (1990) as his follow-up instead, as it was a less physically strenuous role. The knee injury ended up being a blessing in disguise, as Ghost (1990) ended up being a big hit, and received critical acclaim. “Tango & Cash” was a box office flop, as was “Road House.”

  • Marshall R. Teague (Jimmy) initially didn’t get along with Patrick Swayze (Dalton), but while filming their big fight, both men quickly realized they shared a dedication to realistic stunts, which improved their relationship. They developed so much mutual trust that they improvised a lot, and allowed each other to throw real punches and kicks. When Jimmy swings a log at Dalton, Teague mistakenly thought it was a breakable prop log. By the end, Swayze was covered in bruises and had two broken ribs and a busted knee.

  • The monster truck that drives through the Ford dealership is Bigfoot 7, driven by former vice president of Bigfoot 4×4 Jim Kramer. It cost $500,000 and was done in one take. Bigfoot had to be repainted after the scene, and went on to crush cars throughout the country and the world.

  • Marshall Teague told a story that he took his mother to the premiere of the movie. When the fight against Dalton happens and he says the line, “I used to F* guys like you in prison!” his mother jumped up and proudly shouted, “That’s my boy!”

  • After the five-day long shoot fighting Marshall R. Teague, Patrick Swayze needed 2.5 ounces of fluid drained from his left knee. He apparently had been suffering through knee problems before, needing a similar procedure during production on Dirty Dancing (1987).

  • Patrick Swayze wrote one song, “Cliff’s Edge,” and sang two for the movie’s soundtrack, that one and “Raising Heaven (in Hell) Tonight.”

  • The garage where Dalton’s Mercedes is stored is the same one where Reggie Hammond’s Porsche is stored in 48 hrs.

  • It’s a toss-up who used more hair spray in the movie: Patrick Swayze or Kelly Lynch. Swayze joked, “That hair turned into the bane of my existence.”

  • Patrick Swayze and Ben Gazzara died of pancreatic cancer, Swayze in 2009 and Gazzara in 2012.

  • Many of the characters’ names are taken from infamous or famous wild west personalities: Wade Garrett shares his surname with Pat Garrett, the Sheriff who shot and killed Billy the Kid. Brad Wesley, the main villain in the film, has the same last name as the middle name of John Wesley Hardin, one of the most notorious and cold-blooded killers in the history of the west (he once fired through a wall into the next room of a hotel where he was sleeping and killed a man whose snoring was bothering him). Kelly Lynch’s character was nicknamed “Doc,” a nickname shared with gunfighter John Henry “Doc” Holliday. The character who owns the barn where Dalton rents a room, Emmett, has the first name of Emmett Dalton, leader of the notorious bandit ring The Dalton Gang. The “Double Deuce” bar owner “Tilghman” is named after lawman Bill Tilghman of Dodge City and Oklahoma fame. Finally, there is a character named Younger, which was the last name of Cole Younger, another notorious western bandit and killer.

  • On Family Guy (1998) season eight, episode four, “Brian’s Got a Brand New Bag,” Peter Griffin buys the Road House DVD at a going-out-of-business sale at Quahog Video. After watching the film, Peter comically decides that all of life’s problems can be solved by kicking. After kicking his target, he would say the film’s title as a catchphrase. The episode was dedicated to Patrick Swayze, who had died of pancreatic cancer several weeks before the episode aired.

  • The movie’s humor is somewhat intentional. Director Rowdy Herrington said he wanted to make the fights “like a Keystone Cops melee.”

  • According to cast and crew, and also the 1989 interview with actor Sam Eliot, original cut of the movie was three hours and twenty minutes long, which meant that lot of the stuff had to be cut out. Some of the deleted scenes include Dalton making the other bouncers wear ballet outfits and dance as part of their training, and there is also a still picture showing Dalton fighting with Ketchum (guy with knife-boot) inside the Double Deuce in a different fight than the one in the film, and most of Kathleen Wilhoite’s scenes (who played Carrie Ann) were deleted.

  • Joel Silver thought the set of the Double Deuce was too nice. He ordered the crew to really tear it up so it would look more like a dive.

  • Kelly Lynch spent a month in a real emergency room preparing for her role. She also learned how to sew a proper stitch for one scene, but it was changed to staples.

  • Red’s Auto Supply Store explosion woke the neighbors. They thought that MGM studios was burning down. It cost $25,000 to shoot that scene.

  • The car that Dalton bought at the used car lot was a 1965 Buick Riviera, the only year that Buick used the “clamshell” headlight covers for the Riviera. The other car that he drives near the beginning of the movie before picking up his Mercedes-Benz and leaving for Missouri was a 1964 Buick Riviera.

  • The film’s knife maker, Jack Crain, made blades for Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988), and Demolition Man (1993). All four movies were produced by Joel Silver.

  • The film was inspired by a real story where a local bad guy was killed in plain view. Nobody saw anything then either.

  • Red West, once a member of Elvis Presley’s “Memphis Mafia, played characters named Red in this movie, Almost Made (2004), The A-Team (1983) season four, episode seventeen, “Waiting for Insane Wayne.” and “Walking Tall Part 2″(1974).

  • Patrick Swayze had to have bodyguards during filming because female fans would mob him.

  • It was Sam Elliott’s idea for his character to call Dalton “mijo,” which is Spanish for “son.”

  • The book Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is reading is Jim Harrison’s “Legends of the Fall.”

  • The different fighting styles used in the movie, include basic street scuffling, boxing, kickboxing, karate, jiujitsu, Taekwondo, hapkido, judo, and tai chi.

  • The film was a severe disappointment for Patrick Swayze, as he was hoping to have another major hit like “Dirty Dancing.”

  • Patrick Swayze reportedly agreed to do this movie so long as he could keep any and all of his wardrobe once filming was completed. He had made a similar demand for his costuming from Ghost but his agent at the time was unable to secure the deal.

  • Director Rowdy Herrington wanted to show that Dalton still had to do regular things like laundry.

  • Dalton’s rules of bouncing goes as followed: 1) Never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. 2) Take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it is absolutely necessary and 3) Be nice.

  • There are several things that are related to Elvis Presley: Back in the Double Deuce after Red’s auto-parts store is blown up, Brad Wesley tells Cody “Elvis, play something with balls”; Marshall R. Teague (Jimmy) played Rick Colton, a martial arts instructor who had an affair with Priscilla Presley) in Elvis and Me (1988), which was based on Priscilla’s autobiography; Red West, who played Red Webster, knew Elvis Presley in high school and was a member of “The Memphis Mafia.”

  • According to director Rowdy Herrington, there were about 50 stuntmen in the movie, mostly for the bar brawls.

  • Dalton doesn’t strike anyone until 26 minutes into the film.

  • Swayze had both groins insured for over $3 million such was their importance to the plot. Towards the end of filming, production was briefly stopped when Patrick felt what he thought was muscle tightness but the medic discovered Swayze had accidentally put on 2 pairs of underpants that day.

  • When Bigfoot drove through the auto showroom at the Ford dealership, there was no roof on the building.

  • Patrick Swayze considered Road House to be a modern day western with Dalton being the gunfighter for hire and Brad Wesley being the local bully.

  • Patrick Swayze and Marshall R. Teague became very close friends after filming was completed.

  • Sam Elliott and Ben Gazzara were in The Big Lebowski (1998).

  • There are nine major fights in the movie. Rowdy Herrington tried to make each one unique.

  • According to Rowdy Herrington, Ben Gazzara probably ate around 12 eggs while filming one scene.

  • Producer trademark [Joel Silver]: Explosions, which occur after Red’s shop and Emmett’s house are both set on fire.

  • Michael Kamen recycled some of the musical cues from Die Hard.

  • Dalton has a degree in philosophy from NYU.

  • Screenwriter R. Lance Hill has said that while he named the protagonist of Dalton out of his respect for the town of Dalton, GA, that no sane parent would name their son Dalton.

  • The make, model and color of Dalton’s (Patrick Swayze’s) Mercedes-Benz, according to the IMCDb, was a silver light blue 1986 Mercedes-Benz SEC 560 (C126).

  • When Wade has been stabbed to death, with a note saying, “It was tails,” referring to Wesley flipping a coin. Later, it’s shown the knife belongs to Ketchum, then Dalton stabs Ketchum saying, “Tails again!” If you look at the scene with the Mercedes when you see Dalton stuck this same knife in the gas pedal, as Ketchum goes to retrieve it, the handle of the knife is capped off with a quarter, tails side showing.

  • Kelly Lynch wore padding for the love scene between Dalton and Doc for protection because Patrick Swayze was slamming Kelly Lynch against the wall.

  • The fight between Dalton and Jimmy took 5 – 6 days to film.

  • Kelly Lynch got into trouble because she laughed when Jimmy’s death scene was shot.

About The Movie From IMDB

Road House | May 19, 1989 (United States) 6.6
Director: Rowdy HerringtonWriter: R. Lance Hill, Hilary HenkinStars: Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam ElliottSummary:

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Cast

Patrick Swayze
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Dalton
Kelly Lynch
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Doc
Sam Elliott
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Wade Garrett
Ben Gazzara
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Brad Wesley
Marshall R. Teague
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Jimmy
Julie Michaels
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Denise
Red West
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Red Webster
Sunshine Parker
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Emmet
Jeff Healey
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Cody
Kevin Tighe
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Tilghman
John Doe
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Pat McGurn
Kathleen Wilhoite
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Carrie
Travis McKenna
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Jack
Roger Hewlett
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Younger
Kurt James Stefka
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Hank
Gary Hudson
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Steve
Terry Funk
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Morgan
Michael Rider
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O'Connor

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Countries: United StatesLanguages: English, PortugueseBudget: $17,000,000 (estimated)
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Road House | May 19, 1989 (United States)
Director: Rowdy HerringtonWriter: R. Lance Hill, Hilary HenkinStars: Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott
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Quotes

Dalton: I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice.

Steve: Being called a cocksucker isn't personal?

Dalton: No. It's two nouns combined to elicit a prescribed response.

Steve: What if somebody calls my mama a whore?

Dalton: Is she?

Dalton: All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.

Dalton: Take the biggest guy in the world, shatter his knee and he'll drop like a stone.

Doc: Do you enjoy pain?

Dalton: Pain don't hurt.

Doc: Most of my patients would disagree with you.

Emmett: It ain't the money ya understand, but if I don't charge ya somethin' the Presbyterians around here are likely to pray for my ruination. How does a hundred dollars a month strike ya?

Dalton: Fine.

Emmett: Can ya afford that much?

Dalton: If it keeps you in the good graces of the church.

Emmett: Ain't it peculiar how money seems to do that very thing?

[last lines]

Tinker: A polar bear fell on me.

Wade Garrett: I'll get all the sleep I need when I'm dead.

Jimmy: I used to fuck guys like you in prison.

Dalton: Nobody ever wins a fight.

Wade Garrett: [Eyeing the sign over the Double Deuce] The Double Douche!

Dalton: So, you play pretty good for a blind white boy.

Cody, Band Singer at Double Deuce: Yeah, and I thought you'd be bigger.

Wade Garrett: That gal's got entirely too many brains to have an ass like that.

Doc: Do you always carry your medical record around with you?

Dalton: Saves time.

Wade Garrett: What's the matter? Still living in the past, aren't ya? We're a long way from Memphis.

Dalton: Memphis has nothing to do with it.

Wade Garrett: BULLSHIT. That dog won't hunt. I can't believe you're still draggin' that shit around with ya. It seems to me, you'd be a little more... philosophical about it. AND CUT IT THE FUCK LOOSE. You know, that fucking cu-... that *girl* never told you she was married. DID SHE? And when a man sticks a gun in yer face, you got two choices; you can die or you can KILL THE MOTHERFUCKER.

Morgan: What am I supposed to do?

Dalton: There's always barber college.

Emmett: Calling me 'sir' is like putting an elevator in an outhouse, it don't belong. I'm Emmett.

Dalton: People who really want to have a good time won't come to a slaughterhouse. And we've got entirely too many troublemakers here. Too many 40-year-old adolescents, felons, power drinkers and trustees of modern chemistry.

Doc: Your file says you've got a degree from NYU. What in?

Dalton: Philosophy.

Doc: Any particular discipline?

Dalton: No. Not really. Man's search for faith. That sort of shit.

Doc: Come up with any answers?

Dalton: Not too many.

Doc: How's a guy like you end up a bouncer?

Dalton: Just lucky I guess.

Dalton: Sorry, we're closed.

Ketchum: Then what are all these people doing here?

Dalton: Drinking and having a good time.

Ketchum: That's why we're here.

Dalton: You're too stupid to have a good time.

Wade Garrett: This place has a sign hangin' over the urinal that says, "Don't eat the big white mint".

Red Webster: How long are you gonna be in town?

Dalton: Not very long.

Red Webster: That's what I said 25 years ago.

Dalton: Really? What happened?

Red Webster: I got married to an ugly woman. Don't ever do that. It just takes the energy right out of you. She left me, though. Found somebody even uglier than she was. That's life. Who can explain it?

[Dalton walks in on Steve having sex with a girl in the supply closet]

Dalton: Yo, Steve! You're history.

Steve: But I'm on my break!

Dalton: Stay on it.

Steve: Ah, shit!

Doc: Is this the part where you tell me what a great guy your friend is?

Wade Garrett: Not hardly. This is the part where I tell you I want you for myself.

Doc: [laughs]

Dalton: Oh, yo. Whatever he's saying, you can be fairly sure it's a lie.

Wade Garrett: [giving Dalton a look and her a longer look] Don't bet on it.

Wade Garrett: You got a skinny little runt named Dalton working here?

Dalton: If somebody gets in your face and calls you a cocksucker, I want you to be nice. Ask him to walk. Be nice. If he won't walk, walk him. But be nice. If you can't walk him, one of the others will help you, and you'll both be nice. I want you to remember that it's a job. It's nothing personal.

Bar guy: Whaddaya say we get nipple to nipple?

Denise: [eying her own ample cleavage] I can do that without you!

Doc: You know, for that line of work I thought you'd be bigger.

Dalton: Gee, I've never heard that before.

Frank Tilghman: I need the best.

Dalton: Wade Garrett's the best

Frank Tilghman: Wade Garrett's getting old.

Dalton: He's still the best!

Mountain: You wanna fight, dickless?

Wade Garrett: Well, I sure ain't gonna show you my dick.

Dalton: My way... or the highway.

Dalton: [after interrupting Denise's unsolicited striptease] If you're gonna have a pet, keep it on a leash.

Carrie: Who is that guy?

Cody, Band Singer at Double Deuce: Ladies and gentlemen... Wade Garrett.

Hank: Holy shit!

Wade Garrett: Exactly right.

Jimmy: Damn, boy. I thought you were good.

Dalton: Go fuck yourself.

Dalton: You got quite a little enterprise going here.

Pat McGurn: What?

Dalton: You're going through a bottle every 30 minutes, you're skimming the till for 6 shots a bottle. On drafts, 1 every 10.

Dalton: [to Tilghman] I figure he's costing you about 150 a night.

Pat McGurn: [smiles at Dalton] So?

Dalton: So consider it severance pay. TAKE THE TRAIN.

Pat McGurn: [to Tilghman] I didn't hear you say that.

Frank Tilghman: Well, I'm sayin' it now.

Pat McGurn: You sure?

Frank Tilghman: GET OUT.

Morgan: You know, I heard you had balls big enough to come in a dump truck, but you don't look like much to me.

Dalton: Opinions vary.

Emmett: Calling me sir is like putting an elevator in an outhouse. It don't belong.

Jimmy: Prepare to die.

Dalton: You are such an asshole.

Cody, Band Singer at Double Deuce: Man, this toilet is worse than the one that we worked in Dayton.

Dalton: Really?

Cody, Band Singer at Double Deuce: Oh man, it's a mean scene around here, man. There's blood on the floor of this joint every night.

Emmett: I swear he does that just to piss me off!

Dalton: Who does?

Emmett: Brad Wesley!

Frank Tilghman: [after he, Red, Emmett, and Stoudenmire shoot Wesley dead] This is our town... And don't you ever forget it.

Frank Tilghman: I got your plane ticket right here.

Dalton: I don't fly... too dangerous.

Frank Tilghman: It's a good night. Nobody died.

Dalton: It'll get worse before it gets better.

Morgan: Mind your own business, Dad!

Brad Wesley: Elvis! Play something with balls!

Dalton: Problem?

Pat McGurn: There's no problem. Just a little mistake, that's all.

Dalton: What's that?

Pat McGurn: My job. You don't get it, do you?

Dalton: Why don't you explain it to me?

Tinker: [ready to fight] I'LL EXPLAIN IT TO YOU.

O'Connor: [to Tinker] Hey, shut up, shithead.

[to Dalton]

O'Connor: Mr. Tilghman's changed his mind. And that's all you need to know, son.

Dalton: No, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to know a little bit more than that.

O'Connor: Mr. Tilghman may own this bar, but the liquor he serves is supplied to him by BRAD WESLEY. Now, Pat McGurn is in the employ of Mr Wesley, his uncle. Not Mr Tilghman.

Pat McGurn: You see, I'm stayin', and YOU'RE GOIN'.

Dalton: Oh, really?

Brad Wesley: [sees Dalton looking at a man's picture] My grandfather.

Dalton: Looks like an important man.

Brad Wesley: He was an asshole. But *you*, you're a smart boy, aren't you, Dalton? You're just not too realistic. Christ, I'm just like you. I came up the hard way, from the streets of Chicago. You know, when I came to this town after Korea there was nothing. I brought the mall here. I got the 7-Eleven. I got the Fotomat here. Christ, JC Penney is coming here because of me. You ask anybody, they'll tell you.

Dalton: You've gotten rich off of the people in this town.

Brad Wesley: [laughs] You bet your ass I have. And I'm gonna get richer. I believe we all have a purpose on this earth. A destiny. I have a faith in that destiny. It tells me to gather unto me what is mine. But, Christ, you get paid for beating people up. Tell me you don't love it. Of course you do. You wouldn't be human if you didn't.

Brad Wesley: Dalton, I have a cousin in Memphis. Tells me you killed a man down there. Tells me you said it was self-defense at the trial. But you and I know that isn't so, don't we?

Brad Wesley: [Dalton stands up and starts to get mad] Relax. Relax. Tell me, if I owned a bar and I wanted to clean it up, how much would it take to get you to come work for me?

Dalton: [defiantly] There's no amount of money.

Doc: What the hell is wrong with you, Brad? Have you lost your mind?

Brad Wesley: [on Dalton] He's a drifter, you know. To see you wind up with someone like that, it's a shame.

Doc: This has nothing to do with him.

Brad Wesley: Well, you get him out of here, Elizabeth. 'cause if you don't, he's going down. And I'm not gonna lose a second's sleep about it.

Morgan: [pointing angrily at Dalton] If you're not drinking, YOU'RE outta here!

Carrie: [to Dalton] Hey, don't let him bother you. Morgan was born an asshole and just grew bigger.

[introduces herself]

Carrie: I'm Carrie Ann. If you need anything...

[taps him on the shoulder]

Carrie: ANYTHING, you just let me know.

[Dalton nods]

Carrie: You got a name?

Dalton: Yeah.

Carrie: Well, what is it?

Dalton: Dalton.

Carrie: [laughing] Oh my God! Shit! I've heard of you!

Pat McGurn: [raps bar] Carrie Ann! What're you waiting for? Christmas? MOVE!

Carrie: [muttering] Ah shut up. I'm going. Jesus Christ.

Brad Wesley: [Red's place has burned down] Well, with a fire like that, nothin' they could do. Nothin'.

[to Ernie, the bartender]

Brad Wesley: Jack Daniel's.

[Ernie looks at Dalton and Dalton gives him the okay]

Brad Wesley: .

Brad Wesley: [to Dalton] Thank you. It's like a morgue in here.

[to Cody]

Brad Wesley: Play something, Elvis. Get those firemen in here. I wanna buy them a drink. They risked their lives to save a no-good-faggot-draft-dodger like Red Webster.

Wade Garrett: [to Dalton after the fight with Wesley's men] Same town, new story, huh, pal? Let's get a beer.

Dalton: You play pretty good for a blind boy.

Cody, Band Singer at Double Deuce: And I thought you'd be bigger.

Brad Wesley: [after seeing Pat with a broken nose] Did I explain it wrong? Is that it?

O'Connor: No, boss, you didn't.

Brad Wesley: Pat's got a weak constitution. You boys know that. That's why he's working as a bartender. He's my only sister's son. And if he doesn't have me, who's he got? And if I'm not there, you're there.

[to Jimmy]

Brad Wesley: I should've let you go, Jimmy.

Brad Wesley: [to Tinker and O'Connor] Well, one of you boys owes me an apology. Now I leave it up to you to decide which one of you wants to say "I'm sorry."

Tinker: [takes off his hat] I'm sorry, boss.

O'Connor: I'm sorry, boss.

Brad Wesley: I believe you, Tinker.

[walks over to O'Connor]

Brad Wesley: But you, O'Connor, somehow I don't believe you. Now you better try it again. 'cause if there's one thing I can't stand, it's a man who's untruthful.

O'Connor: I'm sorry, boss.

Brad Wesley: If there's one thing that disgusts me, it's a man who can't admit when he's wrong.

O'Connor: I swear to God, boss, I'm sorry.

Brad Wesley: You disgust me, O'Connor. You wanna know why you disgust me?

O'Connor: No, why, boss?

Brad Wesley: [punches him] 'cause you're a bleeder. You bleed too much. You are a messy bleeder.

[kicks him in the groin]

Brad Wesley: You're weak. You got no endurance for PAIN

[karate chops him and knocks him down]

Brad Wesley: . Awe, come on, get up. Hey, you'll be fine. Come on.

[to his men]

Brad Wesley: Well, help him up!

Brad Wesley: [Wesley's men stand him up] You're gonna be fine. And you know why? Because I like you.

[punches and knocks him out]

Brad Wesley: [to his men] Get this piece-of-shit coward out of here.

Dalton: I better take you home. I keep talking, you're gonna go on thinking I'm a nice guy.

Doc: I know you're not a nice guy.

Frank Tilghman: [to the Double Deuce staff] Well, it was a good night. Nobody died.

Dalton: It'll get worse before it gets better.

Brad Wesley: [a big brawl has just started] Can somebody get a drink around here?

Brad Wesley: Stroudenmire, I never thought you'd turn on me too. This is my town. Don't you forget it.

Dalton: [after he pulls Emmett out of his burning house, and lands on top of him] Emmett, you alright?

Emmett: I'll be just fine... If you get offa me.

Doc: [confronting Dalton] You're going to save these people from Wesley? Well, who's gonna save them from you?

Carrie: What did you do there last night?

Dalton: What do you mean?

Carrie: You fired the bartender, Pat.

Dalton: He was skimming.

Carrie: You should not have done that, Dalton.

Dalton: Yeah, why's that?

Carrie: You just shouldn't have, that's all.

Carrie: [hands him food] Here you go. Breakfast.

Dalton: Oh, thank you.

Carrie: [starts to giggle] Oh, my God.

Dalton: What is the joke?

Carrie: Well, there's no joke. I just think I'm lookin' at a dead man, though.

Dalton: It seems everywhere I go, I hear that same joke.

Carrie: Yeah? Well, something tells me you bring it on yourself.

[repeated line]

Frank Tilghman: I thought you'd be bigger.

Morgan: [after socking a bar patron in the stomach and throwing him across the room into a table full of customers] Get him outta here, now!

[Points a finger in Dalton's face]

Morgan: If you're not drinking, you're outta here!

Red Webster: [to Stoudenmire after Wesley's goons destroy his Ford Dealership] You got insurance, don't you?

Wade Garrett: [punches Mountain in the groin and then cracks his knee] God damn that hurts doesn't it?

Morgan: This Dalton character, what's his story?

Cody, Band Singer at Double Deuce: Story is... you fuck with him and he'll seal your fate.

Morgan: Yeah, so far he hasn't shown me shit!

[first lines]

Bouncer Checking IDs: [to Frank Tilghman, as he enters the Bandstand] Go ahead, sir.

Jimmy: Dig a hole.

[observing while at night Dalton and Doc leaving the Double Deuce Club]

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