A lust in the dust (1985)

A lust in the dust
Geregisseerd door Paul Bartel, VS, 1985, 84 min.

Tab Hunter as Abel Wood
Divine as Rosie Velez
Lainie Kazan as Marguerita Ventura
Cesar Romero as Father Garcia
Geoffrey Lewis as Hard Case Williams
Henry Silva as Bernardo
Courtney Gains as Red Dick Barker
Gina Gallego as Ninfa
Nedra Volz as Big Ed
Woody Strode as Blackman, Hard Case Gang
Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez as Mexican, Hard Case Gang

Dance-Hall Danseres Rosie Velez (Divine) is verdwaald in de woestijn van New Mexico en wordt gered door Abel Wood. Aangekomen in het gat Chili Verde krijgt Abel het in de saloon van Marguerita Ventura aan de stok met de bende van Hard Case Williams over een schat.

A controversial spoof on the Spaghetti western (some love it, some hate it), Lust in the Dust features the 300-pound Divine as the inimitable Rosie Velez, riding into view in full drag on a poor donkey as solemn commentary muddles on about the passions that enslave men and women -- and then Rosie, who weighs more than the donkey, is gang-raped by Hard Case Williams' (Geoffrey Lewis) outlaws. Eventually Rosie is rescued by the tough, taciturn cowboy Abel Wood (Tab Hunter), and together they reach the miserable town of Chili Verde where the entire population, not many after all, can always be found at a saloon run by Marguerita Ventura (Lainie Kazan) and her nit-wit bouncer/gunslinger, Bernardo (Henry Silva). Abel soon discovers that the reason why the population is so interested in Marguerita's saloon has nothing to do with hard liquor -- Marguerita and Rosie each have one half of a map of buried treasure tattooed on their backsides, and everyone wants a look at the whole map. That situation introduces rather absurd bedroom farce. Viewers with a very broad if not bawdy sense of humor will most enjoy this earthy exercise in parody.

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