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Simply A Masterpiece

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The phrase 'Lust In The Dust' was first coined to describe David O. Selznick's epic western Duel In The Sun. It took almost forty years for it to be the actual title of a comic western starring the fabulous zoftig 300 pound female impersonator Divine as one full figured showgirl come to an out of the way New Mexican village to find a treasure.The treasure is the loot from a holdup of more than 30 years ago and there's a riddle to the treasure that has to be solved. There's also a map that was done in halves and the halves hidden in a place where the sun doesn't normally shine.Lust In The Dust is a satire on those spaghetti westerns and serving the pasta is former 50s matinée idol Tab Hunter and Geoffrey Lewis on hiatus from Clint Eastwood films. Hunter is your Eastwood like stranger with a fast gun and Lewis is a rather urbane outlaw leader.Divine goes to work in Lainie Kazan's bawdy house and the two really don't hit it off. But they have to work together in a manner of speaking.Sad to say is the best scene in the film is the state Lewis's gang is in after 'ravishing' Divine out there on the desert. Who says women are the weaker sex?Set in a bawdy house part of the time Lust In The Dust is one bawdy R rated western. What would Hoppy, Gene, and Roy think?

Paul Bartel's excellent direction gives this awesome camp send-up of cowboy shoot-em-ups his usual dark comedic twist. With fantastic actors, this movie is replete with Divine's famous monologues, awesome sarcasm (delivered flawlessly, but without meanness like so much common sarcasm), and over the top physical comedy. Divine was Harris Glen Milstead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_(actor), a gay man who dressed up as hyper-campy women to deliver his particularly outrageous drag/camp performances. The interplay between Divine and Lainie Kazan is not to be missed, as Divine gets to say everything each of us wants to say to Marguerite's character - and then some!What makes Lust in the Dust so successful is everything: the writing is par excellence, Bartel's direction is awesome, the group of performers work very well together to deliver scene after scene of laugh-out-loud comedy, the major actors - Divine, Tab Hunter, Lainie Kazan - are superbly entertaining, and the supporting actors are dynamite.As far as campy movies go, Lust in the Dust is one of my top 10 favorite films of all time, as it always entertains and is a solid cult classic.

For the guy who wrote the prior review talking about this as a John Waters movie, please tell him it's a Paul Bartel movie. Then have him go out and rent "Eating Raoul." I loved this movie. I laughed so hard. Between Lainie Kazan and Divine, I was in comedy heaven. My favorite line is when Divine says she's not going to leave until Lainie hears her sing. Lainie Kazan has to be one or our most underrated comediennes. Sad we lost Divine. Tab Hunter was lucky to be in this. I think it actually did him some good although it may have been lost on him. The hardest working burro in show business was forced to carry Divine across the Mexican desert and never complained. Loved this movie.

This movie should be the cult kinky western of the 1980s, as Johnny Guitar is the kinky cult western of the 1950s.Too bad Divine and Joan Crawford never did a western together - now THAT would be a sight to behold! Johnny Guitar Lusts in the Dust - with Mommie Dearest as Divine's divine mommie. . . .