re: Over analyzing Road House

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How was Brad Wesley able to single handedly control the city of Jasper which seemed to have little to no police involvement when there was lots of illegal activity going on.

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Obviously you've never seen Walking Tall.

Moonshine Mafia is a real thing. Little towns are controlled by the money, just like big towns.

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Also, did Wesley and Frank Tighlman (who owned the Double Deuce) have a good relationship at one point prior to him going to hire Daulton.

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As long as Tig paid his dues they did. But he was tired of paying dues to Wesley.

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If Wade Garrett was the absolute best why not approach him before Daulton, I know he's getting older but he may have be able to deal with Wesley and his goons better.

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"Was" is the key word here.

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Finally why other than money did the sweet beautiful, young Doctor date Brad Wesley a man old enough to be her father at one time? She came off as wholesome and good hearted in her conversations with Daulton.

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Big fish, small pond.

On a side note, and this is going to sound unreasonable, but I met the real Dalton (not his real name) one time at Kenny Rogers' place the night Jerry Lee Lewis rammed his own wife's car in the parking lot. I actually knew Jerry Lee fairly well, he lived in the house next to my property in Southhaven at the time. The real Dalton was a bad arse, no doubt about it, but also loved to bet the puppies over in West Memphis at Southland. He drove an $80k Mercedes at the time and lived in that car some of the time. Was a helluva character. I ended-up buying a car from him ... he was broke and went to work selling cars out on Covington Pike. He made quick money then went straight back to bouncing and betting the hounds.

I hated it when Jeff Healy died in real life of cancer. (blind musician) So did Patrick Swayze and Ben Gazzara ironically.

Red West, who played the car parts store owner Red Webster was a long time friend of my uncle's. Red actually played a part in writing the script around the real Memphis "Dalton," ... loosely based. (and Red wrote some of the music in the movie too ... he was actually a good songwriter) The name "Dalton" used in the movie, as I was told, was chosen because the director of the movie had stopped at a bar in Dalton, Georgia that gave him the idea for the movie and the script some years earlier. But Red knew the real "Dalton" that was used as the inspiration for the character through stories he had heard in Memphis.

Red gave my uncle this knife, which was used in one of Elvis Presley's Hawaiian films during a cookout scene ... I forget which one at the moment but the one made in 1966, the last one in Hawaii I think. Anyways, my uncle used to BBQ pigs at Graceland for Elvis and the Memphis Mafia ... thus the knife from the movie. Red and my uncle grew-up together in Memphis and served in the Marines together.

I've met Red several times ... very nice guy. Used to be a bad arse himself. I think he is still alive and still living in Memphis although my uncle died a few years ago ... Red was at the funeral. He has to be close to 80 by now.

Cool story. Thanks for sharing.