The oldest of western plots gets updated in ROAD HOUSE, starring Patrick Swayze as Dalton, the man with one name who rides into town to restore law and order to seedy saloons. Dalton is quite a guy: he's got a degree in philosophy, he's amazingly skilled in the martial arts, he's a mystic who feels no pain, and he killed a man in Memphis (self-defense, of course). Now he's the new super-bouncer at the Double Deuce bar in Jasper, Missouri--but there's more than a bar to clean up there, the whole town being under the extortionate thumb of the vicious Brad Wesley (Ben Gazzara). When
Dalton not only threatens to free Jasper from tyranny, but also starts dating the prett...
Released:
1989
Rated:
R
Length:
114 mins