
Now it’s up to her ex-boyfriend to save her, leading to a battle where the streets are, well, on fire. He leads a gang into nearby Richmond and kidnaps Ellen Aim ( Diane Lane), the lead singer of “Ellen Aim and the Attackers”. Shaddock owns and operates a roughneck bar as well called Torchy’s where local bands play. Streets of Fire is a cult-classic musical action film about a solider of fortune ( Michael Paré) who returns home to find his ex-girlfriend kidnapped by a notorious biker gang.ĭafoe plays Raven Shaddock, the leader of the “The Bombers”, a gang of thugs who rule a particularly rough neighborhood called The Battery. Raven Shaddock Streets of Fire, 1984 © Universal Pictures FILM: Streets of Fire (1984) For fans of this genre, this is a solid entry and well-worth a screening with some truly good work from Dafoe. Yet it’s Dafoe who lends the film its greatest strength, carrying us through the twist with a vulnerable but edgy spin that keeps this watchable. While the film poses a number of questions that seem to have no answers and is mostly standard crime-thriller-filler, it is the performances that make this so compelling, with Mickey Rourke giving a memorable turn. READ MORE: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio makes this moment in The Abyss one to remember

Taking up the man’s identity, now “Spenser”, he gets involved in a sting operation with the FBI and a radical left-wing South American group of freedom fighters, not to mention a beautiful woman named Lane Bodine ( Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). While the suitcase next to him has $500,000 inside, an autopsy reveals a phone number in the dead man’s stomach.
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White Sands is a crime thriller about a small-town sheriff who finds a body in the desert with a suitcase full of money, and then impersonates the dead man to try and learn the truth.ĭafoe plays Ray Dolezal, a bored Southern sheriff in New Mexico, who investigates what looks like an apparent suicide in the white sands of the desert. Fireworks Review: Fantasia Festival 2018 White Sands, 1992 © Warner Bros.
