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Two-lane blacktop [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Monte Hellman.

The Criterion Collection, 2015.

Criterion collection ; 414.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Director-approved two-DVD special ed.

A selection of the U.S. Film Registry, 2012.

"Drag racing east from Los Angeles in a souped-up ’55 Chevy are the wayward Driver and Mechanic (singer-songwriter James Taylor and the Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson, in their only acting roles), accompanied by a tagalong Girl (Laurie Bird). Along the way, they meet Warren Oates’s Pontiac GTO–driving wanderer and challenge him to a cross-country race. The prize: their cars’ pink slips. But no summary can do justice to the existential punch of Two-Lane Blacktop. With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped-down narrative from maverick director Monte Hellman is one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made."--Container.

Taylor, James, 1948-

Oates, Warren, 1928-1982.

Bird, Laurie, d. 1979.

Wilson, Dennis, d. 1983.

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