When the drifter Harry Madox reaches a small town in Texas, he gets a job as used car salesman with the dealer George Harshaw and settles down in a hotel room. During a fire, Harry observes that the local bank is left empty and open without any security. Soon he plots a scheme to rob the bank, provoking a fire in his room to distract the employees. When Harry meets George's wife Dolly Harshaw, the easy woman teases him and they have sex. Harry becomes the prime suspect of the... (Full plot summary below)
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When the drifter Harry Madox reaches a small town in Texas, he gets a job as used car salesman with the dealer George Harshaw and settles down in a hotel room. During a fire, Harry observes that the local bank is left empty and open without any security. Soon he plots a scheme to rob the bank, provoking a fire in his room to distract the employees. When Harry meets George's wife Dolly Harshaw, the easy woman teases him and they have sex. Harry becomes the prime suspect of the bank heist and is arrested, but Dolly provides the necessary alibi to release him and then blackmails him into having a love affair with her. However, Harry falls in love with Gloria Harper, who works as an accountant at the dealership. He discovers that Gloria is being blackmailed by the despicable Frank Sutton, and he decides to press Sutton.
Leave your thoughts about The Hot Spot.
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe film might have been a camp hoot if it weren't for the fact that Hopper still believes in all this stuff - he likes his women molten, duplicitous, and in kinky high heels. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonA crazy, intentionally ludicrous movie that's a lot of film-noir fun. |
| MovieholeClint MorrisNothing to write home about, but still a middling hoot |
| Three Movie BuffsScott NashThis neo-noir film directed by Dennis Hopper is like a trashy pulp novel that you might read and enjoy at the beach. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrOnly movie lovers who have marinated their imaginations in the great B movies from RKO and Republic will recognize The Hot Spot as a superior work in an old tradition - as a manipulation of story elements as mannered and deliberate, in its way, as variations on a theme for the piano. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzLazily made neo-noir that sinks its teeth into the genre's cliches with limited success. |
| VarietyVariety StaffThe Hot Spot seeps with atmosphere, unfolds at a deceptively relaxed pace, steadily accumulates noirish grit, then dizzily plunges into a Lynch-like plumbing of the dark passions and nasty secrets at the heart of Main Street, USA. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkPretty enjoyable as a piece of campy sleaze--especially for the first half hour, before the storytelling starts to dawdle. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasA pretty sexy and effective noir in broad daylight. |
| Entertainment WeeklyMelissa PiersonIt's also supposed to be atmospheric, noirish, and touched with nihilism. But the director, Hollywood bad boy Dennis Hopper, lays it all on so thick that the film verges on self-parody. |
