Movie
Two-Lane Blacktop
Overview
A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who challenges them to a cross-country race.
Details
- Release date
- 1971-07-07
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Pictures, Michael Laughlin Enterprises
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- James Taylor as The Driver
- Warren Oates as G.T.O.
- Dennis Wilson as The Mechanic
- Laurie Bird as The Girl
- Rudy Wurlitzer as Hot Rod Driver
- Harry Dean Stanton as Oklahoma Hitchhiker
- Jaclyn Hellman as Hot Rod Driver's Girl
- Alan Vint as Man in Roadhouse
- Katherine Squire as Old Woman
- Bill Keller as Texas Hitchhiker
- David Drake as Needles Station Attendant
- Richard Ruth as Needles Station Mechanic
Crew
- Monte Hellman - Director
- Will Corry - Screenplay
- Rudy Wurlitzer - Screenplay
- Floyd Mutrux - Screenplay
- Will Corry - Story
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