Road House
Tags: suspenseful, murder, violence, cult, good versus evil, humor, romantic, revenge

Plot synopsis:
James Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is a professional "cooler" (i.e. specialized doorman, or bouncer) with a mysterious past who is enticed from his current job at a club in New York City by Frank Tilghman (Kevin Tighe) to take over security at his club/bar, the Double Deuce, in Jasper, Missouri. Tilghman plans to invest substantial money into the club to enhance its image, and needs a first-rate cooler to maintain stability.
Arriving in Jasper, Dalton eventually takes lodging at a local farm owned by Emmett ("Sunshine" Parker). He attracts attention driving his 1965 Buick Riviera and having a quiet demeanor—contrasting with the tough locals. Dalton's "real" car is a 1986 Mercedes 560SEC with New York license plates, which he keeps hidden (at a private garage and later under a car cover in his landlord's barn in Jasper) because it becomes a target for disgruntled bar patrons. Dalton is soon introduced to local business magnate (and next door neighbor) Brad Wesley (Ben Gazzara), who appears to have a stranglehold on the town; little happens without his knowledge and approval. In the course of cleaning up the violent nightclub, Dalton dismisses several unruly and corrupt employees, some of whom are connected with Wesley. After one particularly violent night where Dalton is forced to physically remove Wesley's henchmen, he suffers a knife wound. Going to the hospital for stitches, he strikes up a friendship with Dr. Elizabeth "Doc" Clay (Kelly Lynch), which develops into a romantic relationship.
Wesley summons Dalton to his home in a seemingly innocent attempt to make peace, but has an ulterior motive: Wesley would like Dalton to work for him once he extorts Tilghman's club. When Dalton declines, Wesley begins an assault on Dalton's friends, including interfering with liquor deliveries to the Double Deuce. Dalton's mentor, legendary but aging cooler Wade Garrett (Sam Elliott), arrives in town after a disconcerting phone call from Dalton and helps him defend a liquor shipment from Wesley's thugs.
That evening, local business owner Red Webster's (Red West) auto parts store is destroyed by a fire after he refuses to give ground to Wesley's persistent extortion demands. Dalton, not wanting to exacerbate matters, allows Wesley and his men entrance to the club that night. The next day, car dealership owner Pete Stroudenmire becomes Wesley's next victim when he also refuses to pay. As a result, Wesley has one of his thugs, Gary Ketchum (Anthony De Longis), demolish the dealership and crush four station wagons in the showroom with his monster truck (BIGFOOT #7) as Dalton and his friends look on with contempt.
That night, Doc visits Dalton and attempts to persuade him to leave. However, their conversation is interrupted by a powerful explosion at Emmett's house next door. Dalton rescues Emmett from the blaze before his house is destroyed. He then witnesses one of Wesley's henchmen, Jimmy (Marshall Teague), fleeing the scene, and manages to intercept him. After a vicious fight, Dalton kills Jimmy by ripping out his throat with his bare hand. The next morning, Dalton receives an ominous phone call from Wesley, who vows to have either Wade or Doc killed. At that moment, Wade staggers into the Double Deuce, badly beaten but alive. Believing Doc to be in danger, Dalton races to the hospital, but she refuses to leave with him, repulsed by his increasingly violent nature. Upon returning to the Double Deuce, Dalton finds Wade sprawled out on the bar with a knife lodged in his chest. Deeply in tears but also enraged, Dalton pulls the knife free and jumps into his car, determined to settle the score with Wesley.
Driving his Mercedes, Dalton speeds recklessly toward Wesley's estate. The car draws gunfire from Wesley's henchmen but when it crashes they discover the car empty, and the knife that was used to kill Wade stuck in the accelerator. Using the distraction, Dalton sneaks onto the estate on foot and, one by one, dispatches each of Wesley's thugs, eventually coming face-to-face with Wesley. Dalton gains the upper hand in their fight and prepares to finish Wesley in the same brutal manner as Jimmy, but decides against it. As Dalton releases him and walks away, Wesley seizes the opportunity to reach for a gun, but is promptly shot to death by Red, Emmett, Stroudenmire, and Tilghman. They stash the weapons away prior to the arrival of law enforcement and proceed to corroborate each other's innocence, with the implication that what happened in Wesley's house will remain a secret.
The final scene finds Dalton and Doc enjoying each other's company in a swimming hole, suggesting that they do get together and Dalton remains in town for good.

Review: For all I know it was filmed either at Uncle Ron's or El Matador here in town!Road House is the story of a bouncer hired to clean up a rough bar in a tiny town.
The line focuses on the supposed size of Swayze's package, and the size vehicle his seed could fill.The film is filled with bar fights that eventually turn into shootouts, hot women, fast cars, monster trucks, explosions, you name it.
The whole thing plays out like a typical night on the town for us yokels here in the red states.The film comes in surprisingly long at 114 minutes, but don't worry.
Patrick Swayze's best action movie he ever did my personal number 1 favorite.
Road House (1989) is my personal favorite number 1 film from Patrick Swayze.
It is my third favorite Patrick Swayze movie and It is a action martial arts classic childhood!
My mom loved to watching him in her favorite miniseries North and South it was her favorite show that she talked about with me.Plot: Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is the best bar bouncer in the business, but he's anything but "typical." He's a little small for his trade, has a degree in philosophy and he believes in "being nice." But when he's hired to clean up the Double Deuce in the small town of Jasper, he's pushed to his breaking point.
Now it's "no more nice guy" for Dalton as he starts busting heads, leading him to the all-time, no-holds-barred, butt whooping showdown of the century.There is a lot of action in this film, a lot of kickboxing and a lot's of fights in it.
Road House is my favorite film, it has a lot of action and kickboxing fight scenes, Patrick Swayze does a really good job playing a hero for an late 80's action flick it is pretty good and I love it.
Road House is a film that I will always cherish and I definitely don't agree with people who doesn't like this film.You have an epic martial art's fight between Dalton (Swayze) and Jimmy (Marshall Teague) watch the fight carefully Dalton uses eagle claws technique when kills Jimmy.
The grueling work put in by the actors is visible in their strained expressions adding that no-holds-barred street fight feel to a fight scene packed with some excellent technical maneuvers.I love the beautiful music score on the end of the film When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky by The Jeff Healey Band which is very beautiful song on the end of the credits.
I love the final showdown between Dalton and Wesley on the end of the movie and the happy ending.This film is directed by Rowdy Herrington who made some pretty good movies that I like, Gladiator and Striking Distance with Bruce Willis which is definitely my Bruce Willis's favorite action thriller film.
- Patrick Swayze (1952 - 2009) I really miss you so much and I wish you could do more bad ass action movies, I am your biggest fan and so was my mom we all miss you and we all love you, I love you to death!
Road House (why doesn't THAT film get the cult/appreciation/notice of this POS), Uncommon Valor, Steel Dawn (underrated) and Black Dog are my top 4 favorite Patrick Swayze movies he ever did!
That legendary year saw the theatrical release of three of Hollywoods most beloved films-the Hulk Hogan opus No Holds Barred, the Sylvester Stallone masterpiece Over the Top(OK, I guess that came out in 1987,but it has a totally 1989 vibe) and our current topic of discussion, Road House.Master auteur Rowdy Herrington has taken the archetypes from ancient mythology (the hero fated to undertake an impossible task, the wise elder who guides the hero, and the villain who the hero must confront)and crafted a tale as powerful and everlasting as any of the classical myths.Dalton, the worlds greatest (or second greatest, depending on who you ask) cooler is given the Herculean task of cleaning up the Double Deuce, a honky tonk bar so vile they sweep up eyeballs with disturbing regularity.
The acting leaves a lot to be desired, and the dialog is pure corn, but it fills the "guilty pleasure" category like a glove.While others like Dirty Dancing, this movie will always define Patrick Swayze to me.
In his memory, I will watch it over and over.It will be the movie that reminds me of how attractive Kelly Lynch is.It will remind me why I like Sam Elliott.It will remind me why Ben Gazzara is perfect as Boss Hogg.It's not art, it's pure entertainment, and why I will always remember Swayze.Besides, it has one of the best soundtracks around..
Patrick Swayze plays the best bar bouncer in the world, hired by Marshall Teague to clean up his rowdy bar, the Double Deuce.
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........
The film follows James Dalton (Patrick Swayze) a cooler (bouncer) and the best in the business, as he takes employment with Frank Tilghman (Kevin Tighe) the owner of the Double Deuce in Jasper, Missouri.
The film has a great cast including Patrick Swayze, Kevin Tighe, Ben Gazzara, Kelly Lynch, Marshall R.
I am stopping my interest in (new) movies now.Road House has brawny men, nice women, bad women, thin women, available women, fighting, music and rowdiness.
We get lines like, "I f--- guys like you in prison!" "The Double Douche?" "Come on, chicken dick!" "You're too stupid to have a good time." "God, I love the way Don Knots makes love." The movie has tons of violence, a bar fight every 15 min.
I've never seen a fight with so many perfectly pointed toes.Dalton's love interest (a blonde doctor with a family of five living in her giant hair) inexplicably wears a picnic-table cover throughout the entire movie.And we have a musical cameo!
The movie has its own rules and an internal structure mostly explained by the character of Dalton (Swayze), a supervisor of bouncers termed a Cooler.
(I lied about the lady doctor thing, the mere thought of it makes me uncomfortable.)Sure, its can be a little too intellectual for some; a little bit pretentious and some could argue, conceptually grandiose.But so what?Road house in essence is an artistic masterpiece, and as with all good art, it stakes you down and rakes your psyche over the hot coals of morality and dares you to ask the hard questions.Questions like:
Roadhouse have it all.Action: Kicks and punches everywhere by Patrick and his mentor (a drunk and cool buddy who arrives to see how is the life of his pupil and clean a few bad guys in his travel.Terror: The person who owns the town is THE BEST VILLAIN IN CINEMA HISTORY (a nomination for the razzie awards for worst actor???
Everything with it is just perfect, from music to fight scenes, best action movie Swayze ever did !.
(Well, actually Wade Garrett is the best, but he's getting old.) This philosophy-major-turned-bouncer is hired to clean out the Double Deuce, the kind of place where they sweep up the eyeballs after closing.While whipping his rag-tag group of bouncers into shape, Pat crosses the path of Ben Gazarra, the evilest man in Jasper.
Patrick Swayze plays a "cooler" who's hired to clean up a rowdy bar in Kansas (actually filmed in Valencia and Canyon Country, CA).
A "B" movie with so many stereotypes, bad lines, poor acting, naked boobs (at least in the video version), and actors who went from nowhere to....more nowhere, it makes it fun to watch.Patrick Swayze looks like an Oscar caliber actor in this one, but so what?
At times Julie Michaels hair looks like it is made of plastic.Badguy rednecks abound (complete with a monster truck!), the good guys win, a hero is killed, another hero gets to girl, and finally all the scared little town folks gather around Swayze to stand up to the evil Brad Wesley (Ben Gazzara clearly at rock bottom of his career)...see Pale Rider for the better acted and written western version of the same story.Just sit and enjoy a trip back the 1980s, and a decent Jeff Healey Band soundtrack, and don't expect too much, but it is lots of fun!.
Joining him are Kelly Lynch as a very sexy doctor, Sam Elliott as Dalton's teacher-mentor gives a surprisingly impressive performance as Wade Garrett, and Ben Gazzara is quite convincing as Brad Wesley.
It features Patrick Swayze as Dalton, a tough, good-looking and perpetually oiled-up nightclub 'cooler' who travels from town to town like a hair-sprayed Lone Ranger.
As if that isn't enough, the soundtrack features a bunch of blues standards rocked up by the Jeff Healey Band that will delight drivers of big rigs everywhere.Owners of gun racks and monster trucks will love this movie, the rest of us will watch with a mixture of amused delight and spellbound horror.
To find out you'll have to watch the eighties classic ROAD HOUSE.A fun action film that's filled with a fair share of homo-eroticism.
Aside from that, this was good old fashioned hero/stranger comes to town, bashes the bad guys and gets the girl movie, with laughs and martial arts thrown in.
Patrick Swayze lost the whole pretty boy image with this action classic that features one of the best fights from 89 and a few kinky sex scenes.
I'm just going to list (in no particular order) the things that makes this piece of trash art one of the greatest so bad it's so good movies of all time.
You read that right.Patrick Swayze stars as Dalton, the (second) best cooler in the business, who's charged with cleaning up The Double Deuce, the seediest honky-tonk bar in Jasper, MO.
He sets out to hire the best "Cooler" in the business and calls on James Dalton (Patrick Swayze) who informs him that Wade Garrett (Sam Elliott) is the still best.
This film is far and away Swayze's best performance to date and their is able support by Sam Elliot as his buddy and Ben Gazarra as the nefarious villain of the piece.
Road House is a gripping story of trying to run away from your past only to have your past thrown at you like a beer bottle smashing full-throttle towards Canadian-guitar legend Jeff Healy.The two melancholic characters, played or better said - lived - by Patrick Swayze and Kelly Lynch, seem to be in desperate need for a change in life but are in unable or uncertain on where to find it.Dalton, Patrick Swayze's person just seems to go with the flow without any particular purpose, that until a starry night a job offer arrives (re: a purpose in life arrives) in the form of a bouncing job at the notorious Jasper, Wyoming nightclub, the Double Deuce.The arrival of Dalton creates a variable chain-like sense of purpose in lives of the patrons and staff of the Double Deuce.
Brad Wesley (played to perfection by gravel-voiced Ben Gazzara), a big time criminal with the whole town under his belt, has already set his eyes on the beautiful Doc. Needless to say, he doesn't quite appreciate Dalton's presence in both the Double Deuce and the Doc's bedroom.
It is then up to Dalton (with a little help from Bouncing Legend and mentor Wade Garrett, a role Sam Elliot was born to play) to prove to the Doc, the Double Deuce, and most importantly, to himself.There are plenty of action-packed fight scenes and steamy hot-Swayze love moments in this masterpiece, but in my view, the film as a whole is both a very sad yet uplifting movie about an outsider who finally accepts and repairs his tattered inner strength and combines it with his sheer outer power.The long shot of the "Showdown at Wesley's" is simply amazing, forcing you to generate your own images out of the gloom like a bespeckled Jackson Pollock canvas, one spattered with hope, dreams, desire, and love.
Patrick Swayze (In a mullet that need to be seen to be believed) stars as Dalton, the best bouncer the business who looks to set a bar straight and kick the bad influence of Ben Gazzara out of his bar and town.
Indeed Swayze spits out lines like "Pain don't hurt","Guess what tails again!" and the best line of the film "If somebody gets in your face and calls you a c***sucker, I want you to be nice.
Most of the bouncers in this film fight more like Sid Vicious than they do Bruce Lee.Roger Ebert hits the nail on the head when he states that the houses Dalton and Walsh live in seem to be the only two in the entire town, and everything that happens in one appears to be staged for the benefit of the other.
Yet, if you don't watch Road House expecting too much you can still enjoy it.The very simple story is about a legendary and genuine bouncer called Dalton that tries to teach a chaotic and corrupt village, controlled by the appalling but prosperous Brad Wesley, how to behave.
**SPOILERS** Better then I expected kick-a** movie about a collage educated, he has a degree in philosophy from NYU, nightclub bouncer Dalton,Patrick Swazye, who likes to do things the peaceful way and not used his fists and feet unless it's absolutely necessary.
Dalton who seems to like his job, as a nightclub bouncer since he had 31 broken bones 2 bullet and 9 stab wounds doing it before the action in the movie "Road House" even started.
Like renting him an apartment and selling him spare parts for his car, which is constantly being smashed and vandalized by the Wesley Mob. Soon the legendary bouncer Wade Garrett ,Sam Elliott, a good friend of Dalton and who thought him everything that he knows about bouncing shows up in town to lend him a hand.
Who's love of the humanities and being a man of peace have long abandoned him since he took the job as chief bouncer at the Double Deuce.It was hard to take Dalton seriously since you got the impression that he'll handle things at the Double Deuce with his brains, like he skillfully did at the beginning of the movie, not his fighting skills but got into to action almost as soon as the bottles and fists started flying.
The ending was also a bit strange with Dalton, who just finished off the entire Wesley mob single-handed, having such a hard time with the much older, by 22 years, and out of shape, all he did in the movie was drink booze and smoke cigars, Brad Wesley that he needed a little help from his friends, four shotgun blasts, to put Wesley down for good.Of all the actors in the movie "Road House" Ben Gazzara seemed to enjoy himself the most , and not taking himself at all seriously,as the despicable and vicious mobster Brad Wesley.
First of all i aint a Patrick Swayze fan.but this movie i like a lot loads of action like a modern day western.this isnt one character depth this is merely to entertain.if this of starred mel gibson this would of been a big hit.but i guess he chose bird on a wire.the action is nonstop the cast are on good form.even terry funk gets stuck in.theres a great soundtrack.Hopefully this will be released on dvd in England soon.this was in my top 10 list for 1989..
This '80s classic sees Patrick Swayze playing James Dalton; a cooler called in to turn around a rough bar and make it the sort of place civilised people go to.
Patrick Swayze is a lot of fun as Dalton and Ben Gazzara hams it up as Wesley...
It's certainly a great action movie with some of the best fight scenes in all of cinema and it's built around the cult of body worship and mostly male body worship which isn't to say that the broads aren't broad where broads should be broad but fundamentally this is all about the guys, who have been mostly picked for their looks and their physiques.
What, you didn't know that every small town had one of those guys?Swayze gets driven to the edge and it's only the love of a good woman, and the friendship of a great cowboy (Sam Elliott, the dude from big lebowski) that can stop him going over.
"Road House" is a great action film which is about a cooler who signs up at a country bar to clean it up.
Even so it's a reasonable way to fill your time and if you like action and the good guys coming out on top then you won't be too disappointed.
Plenty of fights in this action packed movie.Swayze is good in this.Ben Gazzara is a excellent Villain.Sam Groom is great as the mentor.And Terry Funk turns up in a all out brawl.i saw this with friends and they laughed when i suggested we watch this on DVD.But afterwards the only thing they wanted was to watch it Again.A Really great Guys pic.8 out of 10.
Patrick Swayze is uber bouncer/cooler that has his hands full in cleaning up The Double Deuce, which ultimately escalates into a confrontation with Brad Wesley, a guy who runs the town and got rich by taking advantage and muscling its local business to consolidate money and power.
Patrick Swayze is Dalton, a "cooler" for hire who comes to a small town to clean up a country bar named The Double Deuce.
I thought Patrick swayze did great in this film.