Failure to Franchise

Episode Fifty-Two - Streets of Fire (1984)


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"Custom cars, kissing in the rain, neon, trains in the night, high-speed pursuit, rumbles, rock stars, motorcycles, jokes in tough situations, leather jackets and questions of honor." These were the elements director Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hrs.) said he wanted to include in Streets of Fire, a "Rock'n'Roll Fable" which he saw as a tribute to everything he loved about movies in his youth. But did this mixture of so many influences result in a pretentious, style-over-substance mess, or an ambitious, cutting-edge, modern action classic? We'll be the judges of that, in the latest installment of our "Fall Back to the 80s" mini-series!

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