Two unemployed Irishmen, inspired by Elvis Presley's "Wall of Death" motorcycle stunt in Roustabout, endeavor to construct their own (somewhat rickety) version of it on a vacant field of mud. The film, directed by Peter Ormrod, is billed as a Jonathan Demme Presentation, which sounds suspiciously like those "Joan Collins Presents" videos or "Harold Robbins Presents" paperbacks. If it were more than that, it might even be worse. And indeed a sniggering delight in the tawdry would appear to be a thing in common between Demme and Ormrod. But the delight in the latter's case is a little less extreme (or the sniggering less audible), and the actual artifacts of tawdriness are less commonplace and familiar -- or anyway the cultural milieu is. The delightfulness of it all is most apparent in the supporting performance of Niall Toibin as an Americanized press agent called "Boots." With Stephen Brennan. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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