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In this counterculture classic, two freewheeling hippies hop on their motorcycles and ride across America, picking up a boozy lawyer along the way. Watch trailers & learn more.
- Dennis Hopper
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- Dennis Hopper
- Robert Walker Jr.
- Good Timing
- Cannes
- Columbia’s Marketing and Release Strategy
- Impact on The Studios
- A Star Is Born
- And…Rock Soundtracks
Both 1967’s “Bonnie and Clyde” and “The Graduate” were cultural game changers that started to break down Hollywood’s working paradigms. In the mid 1960s, the studios were still relying on big-budget musicals (“The Sound of Music”), international spy thrillers (James Bond) and spectacles (“The Bible” and “Hawaii”). 1968 was an outstanding year for s...
“Easy Riders, Raging Bulls,” Peter Biskind’s excellent history of the transitional post-studio era Hollywood world, recounts the film’s full production history. Columbia was already backing co-producer Bert Schneider, who had family ties with the studio, as well as a limited output deal for low-budget projects. After Roger Corman’s “The Wild Angels...
In the late 60s, the studios gave different kinds of movies different releases. A handful of prestigious A movies for adults opened in top central city movie palaces or other large auditorium single-screen theaters on staggered dates, with higher ticket prices, and exclusive runs before slowly going wider in different stages to less centralized the...
There have been surprise hits since there have been movies. But it’s hard to imagine one since the advent of sound that rattled the foundations of Hollywood more than “Easy Rider.” Low budget, drug fueled, closer in style to recent European efforts than Hollywood fare, “Easy Rider” befuddled the studio heads, many of whom had been in place for many...
The biggest long-term beneficiary from “Easy Rider”? Jack Nicholson. This journeyman Roger Corman grad and sometime screenwriter was cast in the role of an ACLU lawyer who helps the two lead characters as they get into trouble after Hopper pulled a knife on Rip Torn. Nicholson garnered universal praise for his role, multiple awards, an Oscar nomina...
A key part of the film’s success was the decision to spend perhaps triple its original budget on current hit songs on the soundtrack. Using otherwise unconnected songs on a score had been a big part of the success with “The Graduate” (mostly Simon and Garfunkel). Here, current songs matched to footage during the editing played so well that initial ...
- Tom Brueggemann
May 12, 2019 · On May 12, 1969, Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda's low-budget biker flick premiered at Cannes and became “the definitive counterculture blockbuster.”.
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