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Two-Lane Blacktop

Cast

James Taylor, Warren Oates, Dennis Wilson, Laurie Bird View All

Crew

Monte Hellman (Director), Rudy Wurlitzer (Writer), Floyd Mutrux (Writer), Will Corry (Writer) View All

Release: Jul. 7th, 1971

Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes

A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gains a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.

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During this film, I got the same feeling that I got when I watched Vanishing Point, another early-1970s road movie about the seemingly existential journey of a muscle car driver tearing his way across America and attracting police attention for seemingly no other reason other than because he could.

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