Retro Movie Adventures: Streets of Fire (1984)

Come for the music; stay for the hammers.
Streets of Fire movie bar

What a crazy retro block of sort-of-fifties, sort-of-eighties cheese. A new wave noir musical with a lead playing stoicism as blandness. Costumes that Diane Lane can’t keep from looking goofy, and yet Willem Dafoe somehow manages to make black plastic hip waders with no shirt work.

…and Robert Townsend as a backup singer!

…and Ed Begley Jr. as a bum!

…and of course: HAMMER FIGHT!

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