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DVD Release: Rockers: It's Dangerous

  • Release Date: 2000

DVD Release: Rockers [25th Anniversary Edition]

  • Release Date: 2005
  • Director's commentary
  • Interviews with director & producer
  • Original theatrical trailer & radio advertisements
  • New Rockers music videos
  • Poster gallery
  • Interactive Rasta Patois glossary & biographies
  • Video remastered from 35mm print
  • Remastered audio - new 5.1 Surround in Dolby Digital and DTS
  • Deluxe 16-page color booklet

  • Rating: StarStar
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Crime Drama
  • Themes: Musician's Life
  • Director: Ted Bafaloukos
  • Main Cast: Leroy Wallace, Richard Hall, Monica Craig, Marjorie Norman, Jacob Miller
  • Release Year: 1978
  • Country: US/JM
  • Run Time: 99 minutes

Plot

Rockers was made after the the stunning success of the independently made 1972 hit The Harder They Come, which introduced North Americans to reggae music and the Rastafarian lives of many Jamaicans. In the story, Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, who has been a drummer in reggae bands, decides to try and give his fellow musicians an even break by becoming a record distributor. When local gangsters rip him off and stop his budding music venture cold, his fellow musicians decide to rob the robbers. Practically everyone in this film, beginning with its star, were reggae musicians who were well known in Jamaica. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Cast

  • Leroy Wallace - Horsemouth
  • Richard Hall - Dirty Harry
  • Monica Craig - Madgie
  • Marjorie Norman - Sunshine
  • Jacob Miller - Jakes

Gregory Isaacs - Jah Tooth; Winston Rodney - Burning Spear; Frank Dowding - Kiddus I; Robbie Shakespeare - Robbie; Manley Buchanan - Big Youth; Lester Bullocks - Dillinger; Ashley Harris - Higher; Leroy Smart - Himself; Peter Honiball - Honeyball; L. Lindo - Jack Ruby; Trevor Douglas - Leggo Beast; Herman Davis - Bongo Herman; Raymond Hall - Jeep Man; Junior Wilby - Natty Majesty; Errol Brown - Natty Garfield; Berris Simpson - Prince Hammer; Theophilus Beckford - Easy Snapping; Phylip Richards - John Dread; Peter Tosh - Himself

Credit

Eugenie Bafaloukos - Costume Designer; Ted Bafaloukos - Director; Ted Bafaloukos - Screenwriter; Lilly Kilvert - Art Director; Nigel Noble - Sound/Sound Designer; Peter Sova - Cinematographer; David Streit - Associate Producer; Susan Steinberg - Editor; Patrick Hulsey - Producer; Walter Rearick - First Assistant Director

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Rockers
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Directed by Ted Bafaloukos
Produced by Patrick Hulsey
Written by Ted Bafaloukos
Starring Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace
Release date(s) 1978
Running time 100 min.
Language English
IMDb profile

Rockers is a 1978 Jamaican film. Several popular reggae artists star in the movie, including Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, Big Youth and Jacob Miller.

Rockers was originally to be a documentary but blossomed into a full-length feature showing the reggae culture at its peak.

In this film, the culture, characters and mannerisms are authentic. The main rocker Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, for example, is shown living with his actual wife and kids and in his own home. The recording studios shown are the famous Harry J Studios where many roots reggae artists recorded during the 70s including Bob Marley. Samples of the film's dialogue were used in the early 1990's jungle track, "Babylon" by Splash. The Jamaican Patois spoken throughout the film is rendered with English language subtitles for a Western audience.

Plot

Horsemouth, a drummer living in a ghetto of Kingston plans to make some extra money selling and distributing records. He buys a motorcycle to carry them to the sound systems around the island. The film starts as a loose interpretation of Vittorio de Sica’s The Bicycle Thief and turns into a reggae interpretation of the Robin Hood myth.

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Influence On Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

Rockers was one of the main inspirations for the film Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, which may even be seen as a satire on the reggae movie. While the 1978 film featured a motorcycle and the 1985 film featured a bicycle, in both cases the vehicle was red and adorned with the head of a lion. In both films the cool, rocking hero goes on a quest for his stolen bike.

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