Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) ( Two Lane Blacktop ) ( 2 Lane Black top )

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Two Lane Blacktop
Alternate Title: 2 Lane Black top
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
103 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition
Trailer(s)
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1971 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Monte Hellman

Written By:
Will Corry
Rudy Wurlitzer

Actors:
James Taylor ..... The Driver
Warren Oates ..... G.T.O
Laurie Bird ..... The Girl
Dennis Wilson ..... The Mechanic
David Drake ..... Needles station attendant
Richard Ruth ..... Needles station mechanic
Rudy Wurlitzer ..... Hot rod driver
Jaclyn Hellman ..... Driver's girl
Bill Keller ..... Texas hitchhiker
Harry Dean Stanton ..... Oklahoma hitchhiker (as H.D. Stanton)
Don Samuels ..... Texas policeman #1
Charles Moore ..... Texas policeman #2
Tom Green ..... Boswell attendant
W.H. Harrison ..... Parts store owner
Alan Vint ..... Man in roadhouse

Synopsis:

With the melancholy open-road epic Two-Lane Blacktop, American auteur Monte Hellman (The Shooting, Cockfighter, and the recent Road to Nowhere) poeticised the beautiful, terrible rootlessness of his nation in the era of Vietnam. Funded by Universal in a bid to recreate the success of Easy Rider - by giving a number of filmmakers $1m and final cut - Hellman's effort is now regarded as one of the key films of the New Hollywood renaissance of the early 1970s. While driving eastward on Route 66, two rival car owners - The Driver (singer-songwriter James Taylor) and The Mechanic (Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys) in a souped-up, drag-racing '55 Chevy, and a middle-aged braggart (Warren Oates) in a gleaming GTO - begin to race for each other's 'pink slips' and the affections of the listless female hitchhiker (Laurie Bird) who joins them on the road. Scripted by esteemed novelist Rudy Wurlitzer, and featuring the only screen performances of Taylor and Wilson, Two-Lane Blacktop remains a timeless, existential portrait of lives in transit and of a country questioning its identity.

The Driver and The Mechanic are two car freaks driving a 1955 Chevy throughout the southwestern U.S. looking for other cars to race. They are totally dedicated to The Car and converse with each other only when necessary. At a gas station, The Driver and The Mechanic, along with a girl who has ingratiated herself into their world, meet G.T.O., a middle-aged man who fabricates stories about his exploits. It is decided to have a race to Washington, D.C., where the winner will get the loser's car. Along the way, the race and the highway metaphorically depict the lives of these contestants as they struggle to their destination.

About three young people - a dropout, a drifter and a girl - en route to nowhere in particular. Their life-styles are depicted as well as their inability or unwillingness to articulate feelings or faith in the society into which they have been born.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 22 February, 2012.

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