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Mudhoney (1965)

| Drama | 1965 (France)
It's 1933, in the midst of the Depression and Prohibition. Calif, a stranger with a past walks into Spooner, Missouri on his way from Michigan to California. He hires on with Lute Wade to ... See full summary »

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Hal Hopper ...
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John Furlong ...
Calif McKinney
Rena Horten ...
Eula
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Clara Belle
Sam Hanna ...
Injoys
Stuart Lancaster ...
Lute Wade (as Stu Lancaster)
Nick Wolcuff ...
Sheriff Abel
Frank Bolger ...
Brother Hansen
Lee Ballard ...
Sister Hansen
Michael Finn ...
Thurmond Pate (as Mickey Foxx)
Fred Owens ...
Milton (as F. Rufus Owens)
Wilfred Kues ...
Lynch mob (as W. Kues)
Charles Felix
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It's 1933, in the midst of the Depression and Prohibition. Calif, a stranger with a past walks into Spooner, Missouri on his way from Michigan to California. He hires on with Lute Wade to earn some travelling money, but gets entangled in a bad family situation: Lute's daughter is married to Sidney, a good-for-nothing drunk that frequents the rural equivalent of a whorehouse and beats his wife and is just waiting for Lute to kick the bucket to get his money. When Sidney and a local wacko preacher begin orchestrating a smear campaign against Calif, he finds it difficult to conceal his past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife. Written by Ed Sutton <[email protected]>

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...leaves a taste of evil!

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$60,000 (estimated)
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The rock group Mudhoney took their name from this film. They arguably kick started the grunge genre and were a massive influence on Nirvana. Kurt Cobain used to wear their T-shirts on stage. See more »

Quotes

Sidney Brenshaw: Hanna eh? Look's like Maggie Marie was right. You taking a shine to my woman boy?
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Sidney Brenshaw: Well damned if you aren't. So that's way you come busting into her room the other night like some little old banty roaster. You're sniffing after her aren't ya boy? Answer me! ANSWER ME! So you got a yearning after my woman eh? Well boy you go ahead and do what you can with her, you're wasting you time. Anna gets riled with me and she hates a lot of things that I do but she's MY woman boy, my woman, and do...
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Closing quote: "One man's evil can become the curse of all." --Publilius Syrus See more »

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Riveting Myers film
25 May 2008 | by – See all my reviews

My friend and I sat down to watch Mudhoney on TCM. The first two minutes or so (before the opening credits roll) convinced us this was going to be a unique and well-paced movie. We were totally drawn in by the interesting camera work and tight editing. This is the way to open a film! We knew we were in for a worthwhile viewing experience, not just an exploitation flick. Hal Hopper's performance transcends the B-genre. Deranged, sadistic, degrading, mocking, taunting, conniving, violent--he commands the screen. (This guy was Jay "Dennis the Menace" North's father?) Lovely, seductive ladies, never shown gratuitously. They behave in a manner consistent with the film world Myer's has created (some label "gritty," which is the least of this small community's issues).


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