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Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China. Kurt’s mullet wasn’t just short on top and flowing at the back. Oh no. As if a remnant from his time playing Elvis in a 1979 TV movie, there was also a whiff of quiff in there, too. Quite the combo. The fact that Kurt always seemed to accessorise this shoulder-tickling barnet with a white singlet only made him look all the more like an out-of-work logger from Oregon.

Michael Douglas in Romancing the Stone. Beginning with a centre parting, Mike’s mid-Eighties hair was then brushed back into a startling bouffant that was pure Duran Duran. That was the hairstyle’s problem: it was far too pretty for a real man of action buckling his swash in the Colombian jungle. Mike still has the do to this day, not one to let old age get in the way of a good blow-dry.

Patrick Swayze in Road House. The favourite movie of Family Guy’s Peter Griffin saw Swayze at his hardest. Check the cover of the DVD for proof that few things look more menacing than a man with a mullet standing with his arms crossed. Still, the few strands of hair that Swayze let delicately tumble over his forehead hinted at a softer side (more of which later).

Sylvester Stallone in Rambo III. John Rambo might be one of the ultimate movie tough guys but he still made the effort to accessorise his scruffy locks with a bandana. What’s more, by 1988’s Rambo III, I swear he’d been using a diffuser, his poodle hair then more Def Leppard than First Blood.

Hulk Hogan in Suburban Commando. I’ve never understood the man with receding hair who thinks that growing it really long at the back will somehow create a ‘trompe l’œil’, disguising his shortcomings. Even worse, Hulk is known for dying that long bit peroxide blonde; his horseshoe moustache, too. (For some reason, years later in 1997, it was exactly such a mullet that was the style choice for a receding Nicolas Cage in Con Air. The combination of long frizzy extensions, a rapidly enlarging cranium and huge sweaty biceps gave Nic the unique appearance of an especially muscly Bee Gee.)