Editing Lust in the Dust (section)

==Critical reception==
''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' described the film as "a saucy, irreverent, quite funny send-up of the Western" and said that it "takes some of the old-time conventions – the silent stranger, the saloon singer with a past, the motley crew of crazed gunslingers, the missing stash of gold – and stands them on their head with outrageous comedy and imaginative casting."<ref name="V">{{cite web |author=Variety Staff |date=December 31, 1983 |title=Lust in the Dust |url=http://variety.com/1983/film/reviews/lust-in-the-dust-1200426056/ |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> [[Kenneth Turan]] of ''[[California (magazine, defunct 1991)|California Magazine]]'' called it "raunchy but irresistible,"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Turan |first=Kenneth |date=March 10, 1985 |title=Lust in the Dust |pages=317 |work=[[The Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/390647535/?terms=%22Lust%20in%20the%20Dust%22%20%22raunchy%20but%20irresistible%22&match=1}}</ref> while Stephen Schaefer of ''[[US Magazine]]'' said "''Lust in the Dust'' is a wicked must" and described it as "a happy hoot", concluding that it "knows how to mine the gold quickly and leave 'em laughing."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schaefer |first=Stephen |date=March 25, 1985 |title=Lust in the Dust is a wicked must |pages=76 |work=[[US Magazine]]}}</ref> George Williams of ''[[The Sacramento Bee]]'' described the film as "an irresistibly funny spoof on those [[Clint Eastwood]]-[[Sergio Leone]] movies called [[Spaghetti Western]]s" and stated that the actors "all give us the feeling they're having a lot of fun — and we can't help but join in." Most of the mirth comes from the situations and the characterizations."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=George |date=February 8, 1985 |title=Wild, lust peek into the dusty old west |pages=108 |work=[[The Sacramento Bee]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/622574482/?terms=%22Lust%20in%20the%20Dust%22%20%22irresistibly%20funny%20spoof%22&match=1}}</ref> Peter Stack of the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' called the film "a gun totin' rootin-tootin' New Mexico-style cowboy yarn loaded with surprisingly good performances" and praised Kazan's acting in particular.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stack |first=Peter |date=March 17, 1985 |title=Lust in the Dust is a wicked must |pages=299 |work=[[The Chicago Tribune]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/388402729/?terms=%22Lust%20in%20the%20Dust%22%20%22a%20gun%20totin%27%20rootin-tootin%27%22&match=1}}</ref>
 
[[Sheila Benson]] of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' Times said that the film's satire was "limp", and that it resorted to "dumb, sniggering sexual innuendo,"<ref name="LAT">{{cite web |author=Benson, Sheila |authorlink=Sheila Benson |date=March 8, 1985 |title='LUST' GETS LOST IN ITS OWN DUST |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-08-ca-32548-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> while [[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' described the film's jokes as "witless and private".<ref name="TNYT">{{cite web |author=Canby, Vincent |authorlink=Vincent Canby |date=March 1, 1985 |title=SCREEN: BARREL'S 'LUST IN THE DUST' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/01/movies/screen-barrel-s-lust-in-the-dust.html |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Critic [[Rex Reed]] opined that the film "produces the kind of green reaction you get from eating a rancid burrito." Addressing Canby and Reed's reviews, [[Peter Travers]] of ''[[People (magazine)|People Magazine]]'' said: "Well, what did they expect from a whacked-out Western parody starring has-been '50s hunk Tab Hunter and 300-pound <ref>136 kg</ref> female impersonator Divine—''[[High Noon]]''?" and that the film delivers "tacky, hit-and-miss hilarity" with moments that offer "more laughs than a barrel full of teenage sex comedies." He praised the performances and concluded that "those in search of a smattering of cheap laughs will find ''Lust in the Dust'' the perfect oasis."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Travers |first=Peter |date=March 18, 1985 |title=Screen: Lust in the Dust |pages=12 |work=[[People (magazine)|People]]}}</ref>