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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ralph Macchio | ... | Eugene Martone | |
| Joe Seneca | ... | Willie Brown | |
| Jami Gertz | ... | Frances | |
| Joe Morton | ... | Scratch's Assistant | |
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Robert Judd | ... | Scratch |
| Steve Vai | ... | Jack Butler | |
| Dennis Lipscomb | ... | Lloyd | |
| Harry Carey Jr. | ... | Bartender | |
| John Hancock | ... | Sheriff Tilford | |
| Allan Arbus | ... | Dr. Santis | |
| Gretchen Palmer | ... | Beautiful Girl / Dancer | |
| Al Fann | ... | Pawnbroker | |
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Wally Taylor | ... | O.Z |
| Tim Russ | ... | Robert Johnson | |
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Tom Donaldson | ... | John McGraw (as Tex Donaldson) |
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Eugene is an extraordinary talent in classic guitar, but he dreams of being a famous Blues guitarist. So he investigates to find a storied lost song. He asks the legendary Blues musician Willie Brown to help him, but Willie demands to free him from the old-people's prison first and to really learn the blues on the way to its origin: Mississippi Delta. Eugene doesn't know yet about Willie's deal with the devil, that he now wants to revoke. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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deal with the devil | blues music | guitar duel | musical duel | harmonica |Taglines:
'The Kid' keeps the legend alive.... See more »Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
14 March 1986 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$2,071,680, 16 March 1986, Wide ReleaseGross USA:
$5,839,031Company Credits
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Willie Brown: [interrupting him angrily] I'm sorry your life turned out so 'HARD', Eugene! But I got my own business to tend to down here, and I don't mean for you to slow me down.
Eugene Martone: Business? What business?
Willie Brown: Personal business. And given your attitude, you got no reason to know what.
Eugene Martone: My attitude? What the hell's the matter with MY attitude, ...
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Written by Sonny Terry and Ry Cooder
Performed by Sonny Terry (harmonica) and Ry Cooder (guitar)
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"Eugene's Trick Bag" was fully transcribed in "Guitar World" magazine in 1987. See more »Goofs
When the bartender in Crupp's bar pulls a shotgun to break up the fight, he racks the pump. The gun is a double barrel over-under shotgun that opens up at the back, not a pump-action shotgun. It would not make a pumping sound. See more »Quotes
Eugene Martone: You know Willie, I came down here to learn a lost song, not to get slapped in the face by an 80-year-old man! I find out I gotta become "King of the Hobos" I can go broke...Willie Brown: [interrupting him angrily] I'm sorry your life turned out so 'HARD', Eugene! But I got my own business to tend to down here, and I don't mean for you to slow me down.
Eugene Martone: Business? What business?
Willie Brown: Personal business. And given your attitude, you got no reason to know what.
Eugene Martone: My attitude? What the hell's the matter with MY attitude, ...
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WALKIN' BLUESWritten by Sonny Terry and Ry Cooder
Performed by Sonny Terry (harmonica) and Ry Cooder (guitar)
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Here in Australia at the moment we have a series on the Blues and last week they were talking about going down to the Crossroads and making a pact with the devil. All of a sudden I needed to find my old video tape of the movie 'Crossroads', taped from television when I first saw it in 1986. The movie is one of my all time favourites and I can watch it time and time again.
Ralph Macchio plays the role of a young teenager, finding the blues and wanting to be a blues player instead of classical guitarist that he is training for. Joe Seneca plays the role of Willie Brown and he lives that role as though he really is Willie Brown. The music played in the scene at the end where Eugene gets Scratch to tear up the contract for Willie's soul is magic and brings tears to my eyes every time I see it. Maybe there is a place for both blues and classical.