Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential videoThis box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well), but it retains its original power, sense of daring, and epochal impact. --Tom Keogh
Product Details
- Actors: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Tita Colorado, Warren Finnerty
- Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Georgian, Chinese, Thai
- Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
PLEASE NOTE: Some Region 1 DVDs may contain Regional Coding Enhancement (RCE). Some, but not all, of our international customers have had problems playing these enhanced discs on what are called "region-free" DVD players. For more information on RCE, click here. - Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Studio: Sony Pictures
- DVD Release Date: June 4, 2002
- Run Time: 95 minutes
