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Fox Harris
(RIP) 1936-1988
Photos: (Copyright 1984 Universal City Studios)
Site by Trent Reeve
Updated Nov. 11, 2011 |
This is my tribute to the greatest film of the 1980's. As a fan of punk rock,
Repo Man changed my life. When I first discovered the internet I quickly searched for
information on the film. I found a wonderful Repo
Man Links Page by Robert Cantor but I wanted
more. For years I had been collecting posters, articles, videos and everything I
could find related to the film. In 2001 I obtained the web domain
repomanfilm.com and have been building it ever since.
NEW Repo Man was voted as the eighth
best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years, by a group of Los
Angeles Times writers and editors, with two criteria: "The movie
had to communicate some inherent truth about the L.A. experience, and only one
film per director was allowed on the list".[2]
Entertainment
Weekly ranked the film #7 on their list of "The Top 50 Cult
Films"[3]
and ranked it #3 on their "The Cult 25: The Essential Left-Field Movie Hits
Since '83" list.
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REPO MAN
(1984
Los Angeles) - American Release Date March 2, 1984 - Total American Gross
$2,300,000 Frustrated punk rocker Otto (Emilio
Estevez) gets fired from his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker (Zander
Schloss), and is later dumped by his girlfriend (Jennifer
Delgobin) at a party. Wandering the
streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo
agent (Harry Dean Stanton).
After discovering his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist,
he joins the repossession agency (Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation) as an
apprentice "repo man". During his training, he is introduced into the
mercenary and paranoid world of the drivers, befriended by a UFO conspiracy
theorist (Olivia Barash),
confronted by rival repo agents (Eddie
Velez, & Del
Zamora), discovers some of his one-time friends have
turned to a life of crime, is lectured to about cosmic unconsciousness by the
repo agency grounds worker (Tracey
Walter), and finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue concerning a huge
repossession bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu driven by a lunatic government
scientist (Fox Harris), with
Top Secret cargo in the trunk...
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Director Alex Cox based the film on
his own personal Los Angeles horrors and the tutelage of Mark Lewis, a Los
Angeles car repossesser and neighbour.
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Photos: (Copyright
1984 Universal City Studios)
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CREDITS
Director / Screenwriter - Alex Cox
Producers - Jonathan Wacks
Peter
McCarthy
Executive Producer - Michael Nesmith
Cinematographer - Robby Muller
Music - Umberto Larriva
Steven J.Hufsteter
Editor - Dennis Dolan
Designers - J. Rae Fox
Linda Burbank
Costumes - Theda de Ramus
Casting - Victoria Thomas
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Cast:
Bud
Harry - Dean Stanton
Otto - Emilio Estevez
Miller - Tracey Walter
Leila - Olivia Barash
Lite - Sy Richardson
Agent Rogersz - Susan Barnes
J. Frank Parnell - Fox Harris
Oly - Tom Finnegan
Lagarto Rodriguez - Del Zamora
Napo Rodriguez - Eddie Velez
Kevin - Zander Schloss
Debbi - Jennifer Balgobin
Duke - Dick Rude
Archie - Miguel Sandoval
Marlene - Vonetta McGee
Plettschner - Richard Foronjy
Reverend Larry - Bruce White
Agent B - Biff Yeager
Agent E - Ed Pansullo
Agent S - Steve Mattson
Mr Humphries - Charles Hopkins
Mrs Parks - Helen Martin
Miner - John St. Elwood
Delilah - Kelitta Kelly
Motorcycle Cop - Varnum Honey
Ms. Magruder - Sue Kiel
Sheriff - David Chung
UFO Lady - Cynthia Szigeti
English Dustbin Lady - Dorothy Bartlett
Otto Dad - Jonathon Hugger
Otto Mom - Sharon Gregg
Peason - Dale Reynolds
Pakman - Jac MacAnelly
Harry Pace - Con Covert
Repo Wives - Janet Chan
Angelique Pettyjohn
Logan Carter
Laura
Sorrenson
Nightclub Band - The Circle Jerks
Scooter Guys - The Untouchables
Stunt Doubles - Thomas Boyd
Rick
Barker
Bobby
Ellis
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