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Show 'Lust' is porn-corn in medicore form A Classic Recommended Good double feature material Time-killer For masochists only transvestite from "Pink Flamingos." Rosie has an unusual tattoo on her cheek, and you . guessed it we don't mean her face. Abel and Rosie make their way to-Chili to-Chili Verde, whose main character v , is anything but cool. Kazan plays- ' Mnrguerita a boisterous, hot--' blooded madam who runs a low-life, cantina. Among the regular " customers is Bernardo (Henry Silva). He's soon replaced in J Marguerita's affections by Abel in a shower scene that probably will I never rank with the one in "Psycho," but which gives Abel ; .', something he wants the second half of the map. Still-debonair Cesar Romero plays a priest who runs an underused church. He's after the gold, too. He befriends Abel who, a good boy at heart, spiels off a long list of sins in the confessor's booth. Together they begin working out the limerick. Villain Hardcase Williams (played with rubber-faced enthusiasm by Geoffrey Lewis) rides into town towing a mismatched Wild Bunch (including Woody Strode, who probably deserves better ) . And rounding out the cast is Big Ed, a tiny tart who's a little past her prime but who endears herself to Abel because it's a trip to Abilene, not gold, she wants. In a nighttime scene full of squeaking doors and footsteps in the rr hall, the two halves of the map are l': 1 finally placed side by side (or cheek . ) to cheek), the limerick is solved and the fortune hunters take off helter', skelter for the site of the stash, Cactus Kaplan's grave. You see, Cactus had two infant daughters, and to provide them with a permanent record of their"'' legacy... Well, any student of Old., West chicanery can guess the rest. There are some funny bits here " H and some decent farcical characterizations (Silva's is one), ,J but the spoof is too broad and blatant ' to be much fun. As the narrator ' ' says, "Those who lust in the dust, die ,; ' in the dust." At least this movie bites it in v ; record time. Lust in the Dust movie review-by review-by ROBIN MOENCil Record copy editor The nicest thing you can say about "Lust in the Dust" is that this Western spoof about a crew of mangy, oversexed gold hunters is mercifully brief. The movie lasts less than 90 minutes, but your patience may wear thin halfway through, around the time Lainie Kazan starts belting out a tune called "South of My Border." The title will give you a clue to the tone of the movie, which is borderline porn-corn. "Lust" was a contender in last year's United States Film Festival in Park City. It was directed by Paul Bartel for New World Pictures. Bartel also directed a more successful festival entry a few years ago. It was called "Eating Raoul" and it became a cult classic. But "Lust" doesn't seem destined to take a place on the roster of camp hits with "Raoul." The plot which is as rocky as the Wild West scenery you've seen better in a dozen John Ford films runs roughly like this: Thirty years ago somebody buried a treasure in gold somewhere in the sleazy town of Chili Verde. A handful of chronic but determined hard-luck cases want it. But all they have to go on is a puzzling rhyme and a map that is in two pieces and on two people. Tab Hunter, who also co-produced the movie, plays Abel Wood, an itinerant gunslinger. On the trail he meets Rosie, a saloon girl played by Divine, who is the famous BBHMBBBBBBBBaHBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaBBBBBBBH |