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Mar 1, 2025

Pete

Mr. Eighties

Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: March 1 1985 Lust in the Dust Was Released.

On this day March 1 1985 the Western comedy Lust in the Dust was released in theaters. Directed by Paul Bartel, the film starred Tab Hunter, Lainie Kazan, and Divine, delivering a campy and outrageous take on classic spaghetti Westerns.

The movie followed a gunslinger named Abel Wood (Tab Hunter) who arrives in a small desert town and gets entangled in a chaotic hunt for buried treasure. Along the way, he crosses paths with the over the top saloon owner Marguerita Ventura (Lainie Kazan) and...

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