Trailer
Plot summary
Willy, Norwood and Simms work as hitmen, and a botched job in Los Angeles sends them running for Mexico with Norwood's pregnant wife Velma, a bank robbery paying their way. When their car stops in the desert, the four bury the money and go on foot. Night brings them to a nearly empty town, and the men drink in an abandoned bar while Velma urges them to keep moving. The next morning trucks of cowboys arrive carrying espresso machines. Velma wants to stay hidden; the three men walk into the town anyway and return to the bar, where Bruno and Angel Eyes, of the McMahon clan that runs the place, confront them.
Cast
- Terry Woodsas Tom McMahon
- James Fearnleyas Jimmy McMahon
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Straight to Hell (1987)
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- Midway through Straight to Hell's shoot in Spain, funds from Eric Fellner of Island Pictures ran out; Alex Cox finished the film using traveler's cheques and credit cards.
- John Cusack and Tim Robbins claimed they were cast in Straight to Hell and went to Spain to shoot, but were fired because they refused to shave their heads for upcoming work.
- Straight to Hell exists because political problems over Nicaragua's left-wing government scuppered a planned concert tour there; Alex Cox invited the bands, among them Joe Strummer and the Pogues, to make a movie in Spain, and he and co-star Dick Rude wrote the script in three days in December 1986.
- Alex Cox wrote the part of Velma in Straight to Hell specifically for Courtney Love, who had appeared in a supporting role in his Sid and Nancy; Love modeled the character on Carroll Baker's performance in Baby Doll (1956).
- Straight to Hell took the Critics' Prize at the 1987 Madrid Film Festival, where Sergio Leone served on the jury that year.
