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Road House (1989) More at IMDbPro »

• The book Dalton is reading is Jim Harrison's "Legends of the Fall".
  
  
• When Patrick Swayze takes Kelly Lynch to his room, he turns on the radio. The uncredited song playing is "I Sold My Soul to Rock'N'Roll" by the German Heavy Metal band, Bullett, from their 1984 album, 'No Mercy.'
  
  
• The exterior shots of "The Double Deuce" and "Red's Auto Parts" were facades that were built on site. The barn that Dalton rents was also built just for the movie.
  
  
• The band playing at the start of the movie is the band Cruzados. After the band disbanded, the singer Tito Larriva formed the band Tito & Tarantula, which is the band that plays at the Titty Twister in the movie From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).
  
  
• The town Road House is set in is a fictional town 'outside of Kansas City'. As Dalton drives into town, the 'Welcome to Jasper' sign is visible. Jasper, MO IS south of Kansas City, and has numerous rivers running near it (as seen through out the movie). The movie also alludes to 'calling a friend in the FBI in Springfield'. Springfield, MO is just over an hour away from Jasper.
  
  
• Dalton is seen doing Tai chi at one point, although he uses western boxing and mixed martial arts in all the fight scenes.
  
  
• This film is listed among The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
  
  
• The song "These Arms of Mine" by Otis Redding is playing during the love scene with Patrick Swayze and Kelly Lynch. It was also the song playing in Dirty Dancing (1987) during the love scene between Swayze and Jennifer Grey.
  
  
• The first movie to be given the "RiffTrax" treatment by comedian Michael J. Nelson, who recorded a downloadable humorous commentary in the vein of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" (1988) to be played in sync with the movie. Nelson had previously claimed this film was the cheesiest movie ever made in his book "Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese".
  
  
• The car the Dalton buys at the used car dealership was a 1965 Buick Riviera - the only year that Buick used the "Clamshell" headlight covers for the Riviera.
  
  
• Dalton's first name is James.
  
  

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