Streets of Fire
Streets of Fire is a 1984 film directed by Walter Hill and cowritten by Hill and Larry Gross. It was described in the opening credits and posters as A Rock amp Roll Fable. It is an unusual mix of musical, action, drama, and comedy with elements both of retro1950s and 1980s. The film stars Michael Par as a soldier of fortune who returns home to rescue his exgirlfriend Diane Lane who has been kidnapped by Raven Willem Dafoe, the leader of a biker gang. Some of the film was shot on the backlot of Universal Studios in California on two large sets covered in a tarp 1,240 feet long by 220 feet wide so that night scenes could be filmed during the day.
In an unnamed city in a time period that resembles the 1950s, Ellen Aim Lane, lead singer of Ellen Aim and The Attackers, has returned home to give a concert. The Bombers, a biker gang, led by Raven Shaddock Dafoe, enter the auditorium and kidnap her.Witnessing all of this is Reva Cody Van Valkenburgh, who wires her brother Tom Cody Par, an exsoldier and Ellens exboyfriend, to rescue her. Tom returns and, after beating up a bunch of rowdies who harass Reva at the diner she owns, checks out the local tavern, the Blackhawk, where Clyde Paxton tends bar. He is annoyed by a tomboyish exsoldier named McCoy Madigan, a mechanic who could drive anything and who is good with her fists, as evidenced when she knocks out Clyde. They leave the bar and McCoy asks Tom for a place to stay for the night. That night, Tom and Reva plan to rescue Ellen Reva is to contact Billy Fish Moranis, Ellens manager and current boyfriend, to meet at the diner in the morning. ........
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