Stuck in the Middle with You a slide. Eventually, the other band members appear, driving off the strange characters so that Egan can sit down at last. Leif Garrett released a version of the song on his 1980 album, "Can't Explain". The song is used in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 debut film "Reservoir Dogs", during the scene in which the character Mr. Blonde (played by Michael Madsen) taunts and tortures bound policeman Marvin Nash (Kirk Baltz) while singing and dancing to the song. In an interview with "Rolling Stone", Tarantino recalled: "That was one of those things where I thought [the song] would work really well, and
Reservoir Dogs wife gave the script to Harvey Keitel. Keitel liked it enough to sign as a co-producer so Tarantino and Bender would have an easier job finding funding; with his assistance, they raised $1.5 million. Keitel also paid for Tarantino and Bender to host casting sessions in New York, where the duo found Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, and Tim Roth. "Reservoir Dogs" was, according to Tarantino, influenced by Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing". Tarantino said: "I didn't go out of my way to do a rip-off of "The Killing", but I did think of it as my "Killing," my take on that