Lust in the Dust

This is a modern day wide-screen western. Even though it contains Divine and Tab Hunter, it’s not a John Waters film. Apparently, the director made a special point not to rip off John Waters’ style in making this film. It’s about a small town in New Mexico back in the olden days called Chile Verde. Word is, there’s gold buried in town and people try to find it. A stranger and a chorus girl roll into town searching for it. People start dying. Then the bad guy’s gang rolls into town and more guys die. It’s pretty rawkus and bawdy, but it’s pretty amusing. If it were a John Water’s film, it would be all of the above, but less amusing. And thank goodness Edith Massey didn’t get given the part in this movie, or it would have ruined the film (in my opinion). I don’t know that I’d recommend this to a ton of people, especially people who are squeamish, but if you want to see the most legit film Divine ever did, this is a great example. Eve the behind the scenes stuff talks about how high-brow this film is for these actors. It’s pretty good.