Inferno
Directed by John G. Avildsen, 1999



A group of bullies terrorizing a small town meet their match in the Muscles From Brussels in this action drama.

A truck thunders down a dirt road in the middle of the Nevada desert. Leaving a plume of dust behind. Aboard are Matt, Jesse and Petey Ryker, the sons of Ramsey Ryker, the patriarch of the feared Ryker family. Ramsey runs a counterfeit ring out of his high security compound in the desert town of Inferno - a town terrorized by, not only the Ryker family, but by the Ravers, a group of young, rowdy, drug runners. Something catches Pete's eye from a distance and then two gunshots ring out. They approach a man, Eddie Lomax, by his broken-down truck, under the scorching heat of the desert's sun. Eddie has been drinking heavily and is trying to commit suicide with his 45 Automatic. The three youths insult, shoot and brutally beat-up Eddie. After robbing him of his pearl-handled 45 automatic and his sleek Moto Guzzi VII Sport motorcycle that they find under a tarp on the back of the truck, they leave him for dead.

Eddie is found by an eccentric old timer, Jubal Early, who takes him to the abandoned mine shaft he calls home and nurses him back to health. Eddie, upon Jubal Early's suggestions, decides to get out of town and not to seek revenge. But, what happens on the day he walks into the Road Runner Diner to buy bus ticket, changes his mind. When Eddie meets Rhonda, the daughter of the diner's owner, he realizes that Eddie has always blamed himself. Eddie's mission has been to deliver a letter to Rhonda - the letter he promised her dead husband Josh he would bring to her. Helping Rhonda is, in Eddie's mind, a way for him to make up for the loss she has suffered on his account and represents one more cause in his quest for justice in the town of Inferno





Image: