Straight to Hell / Death and the Compass DVD (2005) Peter Boyle, Alex Cox

STRAIGHT TO HELL + DEATH AND THE COMPASS\nA film by Alex Cox\nStraight to Hell\nA team of inept hitmen (Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer and Dick Rude) oversleep on the day of their big job and find their target has already fled town. Fearing reprisals from their boss (Jim Jarmusch) they pull a bank job and escape into the desert with Richardson's pregnant girlfriend (Courtney Love). When their car breaks down they seek shelter in a ghost town inhabited by the McMahons (The Pogues, Biff Yeager), a murderous and incestuous clan of gun-crazy coffee addicts.\nFilmed, and occasionally written, on location in Spain, Alex Cox's glorious anarchic homage to the Spaghetti Western is a surreal forerunner of Tarantino's films, and has all an all-star cast including Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Elvis Costello and Kathy Burke.\nExtras\nBack to Hell (interviews with cast and crew\nAudio commentary by director Alex Cox and co-writer Dick Rude\nSpain, UK | 1987 | colour | English language, optional h2