I have wondered for years about the trophy room basement in the movie Roadhouse with Patrick Swayze. It is chocked full of awesome mounts. Bongo, ibex, sheep, full mount giraffe, etc. I realize it very well could be just a bunch of animals brought into a set somewhere but it sure looks like a real trophy room. Does anyone know anything about it?

The same old line of crap ... the bad guy is a hunter or shooter or both.

Hollywood hates us all.

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Originally posted by Will:
The same old line of crap ... the bad guy is a hunter or shooter or both.

Hollywood hates us all.

Ain't that the truth!

God bless George Butler!

But with respect to the question, my guess is that it was a mock-up on a movie set and nothing more.

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Originally posted by mrlexma:

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Originally posted by Will:
The same old line of crap ... the bad guy is a hunter or shooter or both.

Hollywood hates us all.

Ain't that the truth!

God bless George Butler!

But with respect to the question, my guess is that it was a mock-up on a movie set and nothing more.

I agree with Will and MR, but I do wonder about the trophies. Where did they come from? I am sure that they were rented, as I doubt that to many prop houses have lifesized mounts of Polar bear and bongo. I wonder what the owner thought when he watched the movie and saw his full mount Polar bear being pushed over in the fight scene.

I have read about classic cars being rented to the studios and being trashed during filming. The owner then finds that the contract's fine print states that the studio is not liable for "wear and tear".

I was 12 when Roadhouse came out. And the only scene I remember wasn’t in the trophy room.

There is a taxidermist in Burbank that rents out mounts to the TV and Movie industry. The owners are memebers of the San Fernando SCI chapter. I don't remember their first names, but it is Bischoff's Taxidermy in Burbank, Ca.

I thought I read somewhere it was Elgen Gates collection, but would not swear to it.

It is (was) a real trophy room. I have visited it a few times and the movie doesn't begin to do justice to the collection. It belonged to a Bruno Scherer (sp?) and was located within sight of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Unfortunately the home was sold several years ago. I dont know what happened to the trophies.

You are correct, it was the trophy room of Bruno Scherrer. Scherrer made all of his money in the car wash business. He got busted by the feds for importing endangered species and lost his shot at the Weatherby award. Seems the feds had a problem with the two snow leopards and the jaguar among other questionable things in his trophy room. Check out this LA Times article.

Mike

Interesting read. I would have loved to have seen the room before the downfall.

He acquired most of his trophies in a fairly short time frame. Dude must have hunted 24-7-365. I'll bet his passport was as thick as a small towns phone book.

Mike

Yes. Thanks for posting that article. What a disgraceful scam - get a "museum" director to sponsor you as a "curator" so that you can shoot endangered species.

Then get a crooked appraiser to over value your taxidermy donations to the museum so that you can take huge tax deductions.

Guys like Scherrer really do give a black eye to hunters and hunting. He was a hunter who really was a bad guy - and he got off light if you ask me!

As an aside, the Scherrer and related cases resulted in more stringent IRS regulations governing the taking of tax deductions for charitable donations of taxidermy.

Boo hoo. The feds lost some tax revenue! It's outrageous. Outrageous I say!

Typical of the LA times. I wonder how small the office was that a black bear would cover a whole wall. Other things have changed since that time i e the top tax bracket has droped considerably from 50%+ to 35%. What about the hunter that mounts his trophies and uses them for decorations in his or her office or say their resturant. I am not saying things were done correctly in this instance but the article in the paper was sooo slanted against hunting. Also the federal government must have been asleep at the wheel for a long time. Look at the hoops one must jump thru for say a Leopard which is not at all endangered, hell you can find one in your back yard in Joberg.

This is alot like the horary degrees universities bestow on a large donor that maybe didn't even finish grade school but he was able to amass a fortune and likes the universities football or basketball team.

Just think what the movie would have been if it wasn't for the trophy room. You wouldn't have had the best line in the movie "A bear fell on me."