![]() ![]() Don Ferguson), who is somehow pilfering oil from a local supply line (this is never fully explored, co-director Monty Montgomery doesn’t even recall why it’s part of the movie besides to show he’s a real jerk, I suppose), will get his comeuppance at the end of the picture during the final brouhaha at the local watering hole. Telena, who had witnessed her mother’s suicide before she fell victim to her fathers perverted hands, will spend the afternoon with Vance in a motel before pops shows up with a shotgun. Through his reckless ways, Vance manages to expose the town’s seedy side as he meets Telena (Marin Kanter), a troubled teen who drives a fast car and lives just as fast. It’s also a slow build to the movie’s climax with not much happening in between. It’s slow going getting the bike repaired and “the gang” winds up staying in town late into the night. Sadly, it will be but not quite how one would imagine. We watch as they casually interact with the locals, who fear their little town will be tomorrow’s headline of mayhem. ![]() ![]() Along with a handful of other fiends on two wheels, including Tina L’Hotsky, Phillip Kimbrough, Lawrence Matarese, and Danny Rosen, they converge in a small town to repair one of their motorcycles, using the local garage for a work space. The Loveless does star Willem Dafoe (in his first feature role) as Vance and rockabilly revival icon Robert Gordon as Davis, wild delinquents who are forced to spend a day in a very small town on their way to Daytona to “watch them howl” at the races. That’s an over-the-top description of 1981’s The Loveless but it sounded good flowing from my mind in Wolfman Jack’s voice, and I have a flair for the dramatic at times as well. ![]() They ain’t no angels and for sure no man’s friend today, baby! Throwing it all around and down as they carve a path of destruction and expose the rotten core of this highway pitstop. They’re loud, fast, and out of control! And that’s just the motorcycles! Engines roar and trouble soars when this relentless crew of Hell’s boozefighters led by a wild young Willem Dafoe, rock, roll, and tumble into a sleepy little town. ![]()
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