High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Road House is a 1989 action film directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Patrick Swayze and Sam Elliott as bouncers at a seedy roadside bar who protect a small town in Missouri from a corrupt businessman. The film has gathered a cult following. James Dalton (Swayze) is a professional "cooler" with a mysterious past who is enticed from his current job in New York City by club owner Frank Tilghman (Kevin Tighe) to take over security at his club/bar, t ...