{"id":26310,"date":"2012-06-27T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T18:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=26310"},"modified":"2022-01-27T01:01:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T08:01:40","slug":"lust-in-the-dust-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=26310","title":{"rendered":"Lust in the Dust (1985)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Those who lust in the dust, die in the dust.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lust-in-the-Dust-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lust-in-the-Dust-Poster-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lust-in-the-Dust-Poster-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lust-in-the-Dust-Poster-83x128.jpg 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lust-in-the-Dust-Poster.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA portly dancehall singer (Divine) accompanies a taciturn cowboy (Tab Hunter) into the small western town of Chili Verde, where they learn that the busty owner (Lainie Kazan) of a saloon may hold part of the secret to the location of hidden gold.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cesar Romero Films<\/li>\n<li>Hidden Treasure<\/li>\n<li>Satires and Spoofs<\/li>\n<li>Tab Hunter Films<\/li>\n<li>Westerns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary accurately notes that &#8220;considering that this western parody was directed by Paul Bartel (<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1418\"><em>Eating Raoul<\/em><\/a>) and has a truly bizarre cast&#8230;, it should be much wilder than it is.&#8221; He asserts that the &#8220;lifeless script by Philip John Taylor shouldn&#8217;t have adhered so much to the westerns it spoofed&#8221;, and instead &#8220;should have shot down the conventions of the genre and given us something new&#8221;. Regardless of where exactly the film&#8217;s faults lie, it&#8217;s most definitely a disappointment (though not all agree; according to IMDb comments, it has a coterie of devoted fans). Divine is a hoot as always, but the material simply never goes to the extremes we expect, given her outsized presence; instead, we&#8217;re left with a rather standard tale of romantic jealousy (Divine and Kazan go at it like hissing cats) amidst a frantically competitive search for hidden treasure. Most film fanatics will likely be curious to check this one out once, given Bartel&#8217;s credentials, but it&#8217;s not must-see. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Divine as Rosie<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lust-in-the-Dust-Divine.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lust-in-the-Dust-Divine-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-26312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lust-in-the-Dust-Divine-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lust-in-the-Dust-Divine-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lust-in-the-Dust-Divine-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Lust-in-the-Dust-Divine.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; this one isn&#8217;t must-see. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089523\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1985\/03\/01\/movies\/screen-barrel-s-lust-in-the-dust.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitallyobsessed.com\/displaylegacy.php?ID=1090\">Digitally Obsessed Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/lust-in-the-dust-1985\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Those who lust in the dust, die in the dust.&#8221; Synopsis: A portly dancehall singer (Divine) accompanies a taciturn cowboy (Tab Hunter) into the small western town of Chili Verde, where they learn that the busty owner (Lainie Kazan) of a saloon may hold part of the secret to the location of hidden gold. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Cesar Romero Films Hidden Treasure Satires and Spoofs Tab Hunter Films Westerns Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary accurately notes that &#8220;considering&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=26310\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26310"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80702,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26310\/revisions\/80702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}