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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Simon Wincer
Produced by
Jere Henshaw
Written by
Don Michael Paul
Starring
Mickey Rourke
Don Johnson
Chelsea Field
Tom Sizemore
Giancarlo Esposito
Vanessa Williams
Music by
Basil Poledouris
Cinematography
David Eggby
Edited by
Corky Ehlers
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
August 23, 1991 (1991-08-23)
Running time
98 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$23 million[1]
Box office
$7,434,726 (United States)[1]
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is a 1991 action biker film starring Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson. The film was written by Don Michael Paul and directed by Simon Wincer.
The film was a critical and financial failure, earning only $7 million at the domestic box office (the budget was estimated at $23 million). It became a cult classic following its release to video. It promoted a "male biker" stereotype.[2]
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Soundtrack
4 Reception
5 DVD
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Plot[edit]
This article needs an improved plot summary. (October 2015)
The film is set in Los Angeles in the then-future of 1996. Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke), dressed in biker gear, with ultra-short dyed hair, hears from the radio about a dangerous new street drug named "Crystal Dream". (The significance of this street drug does not become clear until later.) Harley goes into a rough bar and sees a cowboy-looking fellow (Don Johnson wearing a beard, cowboy hat and boots). He has scammed a fellow in a pool game but has to use strong measures when the fellow refuses payment. Harley helps him in this. We learn that they are old friends (later we learn the name he goes by is The Marlboro Man.) They visit a blues (old jazz?) bar in Burbank, which they both hold special. They go into a back room and meet Jack Daniels, an extremely-heavily-muscled lad, who immediately goes to fight Harley due to an old feud over a woman. After a manly exchange of blows and body slams, Harley tells him that he knows that the woman loves Jack and they make friends. Soon it is revealed that the bar is about to be demolished as the lease will not be renewed. "Suits" at Great Trust bank plan to replace it with a skyscraper. Harley, Marlboro, Jack and two friends decide to rob a bank to raise the money to ensure the bar's survival. A comely waitress hooks up with Harley. Marlboro borrows Harley's Harley and baits a motorcycle cop, with interesting results. In a bit of psychological revelation, we learn that he is in an intermittent amorous relationship with a beautiful woman, who tells him that she is going to settle down with another man, as she is not getting enough loving from him. He is conflicted by the news but later tells Harley that he is not the kind of man who has a wife. Harley arrives and takes her out for breakfast. An armored car is going down a street and meets a detour sign. Marlboro jumps on its back door and climbs to its roof (a visual parallel of train robbers crawling on the roofs of boxcars in old western movies). The contents of the armored car is heisted in a well-thought-out scheme, but the escape of Harley/Marlboro's gang is almost foiled by the appearance of a squad of black-trenchcoat-wearing (a la Matrix) machinepistol-firing soldiers. Jack drives a fiery motorcycle into the fray and allows them to escape. But they discover the goods they have stolen are a large amount of "Crystal Dream", not money. Chance Wilder (Tom Sizemore), president of the Great Trust branch, is obviously involved in drug dealing. Harley and Marlboro go to the bank. Showing considerable balls, Harley negotiates an exchange - the drugs for $2.5M. The exchange goes down smoothly in a visually-fascinating airplane graveyard, but then the bank's squad of soldiers finds them celebrating at the bar and it is not pretty, although Harley and Marlboro manage to escape with the money. In a running battle, Harley and Marlboro alternately flee and face off with steadily-declining elements of the squad until a final showdown in the penthouse suite of the Great Trust bank. The closing scene: Marlboro has gone back to rodeo bull-riding and Harley on his bike takes to the road, stopping only temporarily to pick up a ravishing and shapely hitchhiker who tells him she is going "no place special", a destination that Harley promises to take her. Much of the film was filmed in and around Tucson, Arizona and the "Boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
Cast[edit]
Mickey Rourke as Harley Davidson
Don Johnson as The Marlboro Man (Robert Lee Anderson)
Chelsea Field as Virginia Slim
Daniel Baldwin as Alexander
Giancarlo Esposito as Jimmy Jiles
Vanessa Williams as Lulu Daniels
Tom Sizemore as Chance Wilder
Tia Carrere as Kimiko
Big John Studd as Jack Daniels
Julius Harris as "The Old Man" Jiles
Eloy Casados as Jose Cuervo
Kelly Hu as Suzi
Robert Ginty as Thom
Branscombe Richmond as Big Indian
Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton as himself (Radio Personality)
Soundtrack[edit]
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released
1991
Genre
Rock, Hard rock
Length
42:46
Label
Mercury Records
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Performer
Length
1. "Long Way from Home" Loyd Neil Carswell Copperhead 7:15
2. "The Bigger They Come" Frampton, Marriott, John Regan Peter Frampton, Steve Marriott 4:26
3. "Tower of Love" (from the album Roadhouse, 1991) Paul Jackson, Richard Day, Frank Noon Roadhouse 3:56
4. "I Mess Around" (from the album Shooting Gallery, 1991) Billy G. Bang, Andy McCoy Shooting Gallery 4:19
5. "Wild Obsession" (from the album Hollywood Vampires, 1991) Mick Cripps, Tracii Guns, Phil Lewis, Kelly Nickels, Steve Riley L.A. Guns 4:14
6. "C'mon" (from the album All for One, 1991) Dave Gleeson, Richard Lara The Screaming Jets 2:48
7. "Let's Work Together" Wilbert Harrison The Kentucky Headhunters 2:14
8. "Hardline" Tom Kimmel, Dennis Morgan Waylon Jennings 4:09
9. "Ride with Me" Dean Davidson Blackeyed Susan 5:10
10. "What Will I Tell My Heart?" (from the album The Comfort Zone, 1991) Peter Tinturin, Irving Gordon, Jack Lawrence Vanessa Williams 4:15
Total length: 42:46
Other songs in the film, but not included on the soundtrack are "Stop the World" by The Screaming Jets, "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi, and "Work to Do" and "The Better Part of Me" by Vanessa Williams. An early scene around a pool table seems to have originally featured AC/DC's "Hells Bells," but has been replaced by a sound-alike.
Reception[edit]
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 22% of 18 surveyed critics gave it a positive review; the average rating was 3.6/10.[3] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "a mindless cobbling from countless buddy movies".[4] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly rated it C+ and called it "a kinetic formula shoot-'em-up" that is "engagingly junky entertainment with a healthy sense of its own ludicrousness."[5] Variety called it "a dopey, almost poignantly bad actioner about two legends-in-their-own-minds".[6] Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Rourke and Mr. Johnson handle their roles with more ease and humor than can be accommodated by a movie so stuffed with mindless fistfights, gunfights, helicopter chases, explosions and leaps from tall buildings."[7] Time Out London called it "utter rubbish, and badly dressed at that."[8] Kim Newman of Empire wrote, "For a while, its crassness is amusing, but as the plot sets in, it gradually turns into a stultifying bore."[9] Johnson and Rourke have spoken negatively of the film. Rourke cited the film as the beginning of his decline in mainstream Hollywood. Johnson, while promoting the film gave a tonge in cheek interview where he was quoted as saying “ If your a fan of mindless action. If you don’t have a single brain cell in your head, this is the film for you.”
DVD[edit]
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man was released to DVD by MGM Home Entertainment on February 23st, 2001 as a Region 1 widescreen DVD and to Blu-Ray disc by Shout Factory (under license from MGM) on May 19th, 2015.
See also[edit]
List of American films of 1991
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2014-01-16.
Jump up ^ Rollin, Bernard E. (2006). Harley-Davidson and Philosophy. Open Court. p. 174. ISBN 0-8126-9595-X.
Jump up ^ "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
Jump up ^ "MOVIE REVIEW: 'Harley Davidson, Marlboro' . . . Lively but Ludicrous". Los Angeles Times. 1991-08-23. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
Jump up ^ Gleiberman, Owen (1991-08-30). "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
Jump up ^ "Review: 'Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man'". Variety. Retrieved 2014-01-16.
Jump up ^ Canby, Vincent (1991-08-24). "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-01-16.
Jump up ^ "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man". Time Out London. Retrieved 2014-01-16.
Jump up ^ Newman, Kim. "Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man". Empire. Retrieved 2014-01-16.
External links[edit]
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