Directed by Walter Hill • 1984 • United States
Starring Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis

Walter Hill’s turbocharged “rock & roll fable” unfolds in an ultrastylized, neon-soaked dystopia where 1950s-style greasers and bikers run wild amid ’80s gloss. Ex-soldiers Tom Cody (Michael Paré) and McCoy (Amy Madigan) descend into an outlaw underworld of rain-splattered streets, hot cars, and deadly assassins to rescue Cody’s rock singer ex-girlfriend Ellen (Diane Lane) from a motorcycle gang led by Willem Dafoe’s memorably snarling, leather-clad villain Raven Shaddock. Infusing his action classicism with a jolt of new-wave excess, Hill delivers a propulsive spectacle of sound and fury.