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Jul 23, 1971 · Two-Lane Blacktop: Directed by Monte Hellman. With James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson. While drag-racing through the American Southwest in a Chevrolet 150, a driver and his mechanic cross paths with an enigmatic hitchhiker and the tall-tale-spinning driver of a GTO.
Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 American road movie directed and edited by Monte Hellman, written by Rudy Wurlitzer and starring singer-songwriter James Taylor, the Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, and Laurie Bird.
Two-Lane Blacktop was shot in sequence with a crew of 34 traveling along with the actors cross country from Los Angeles to Tennessee with location stops in Needles, California; Flagstaff, Arizona; Santa Fe and Tucumcari, New Mexico; Boswell, Oklahoma; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Memphis, Tennessee.
Dec 31, 2014 · Two Rockstars Folk Rock singer James Taylor and Dennis Wilson (Beach Boys Co-Founder and drummer) race Waren Oates a tall-tale telling drifter across a few states for pink slips, with a few drag races and other memorable scenes along the way.
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) The girl simply turns up one day and gets into the back seat of the 1955 Chevy. She doesn't seem to have a name, but then nobody else does, either. The driver and the mechanic drive away without even speaking to her, and that's how they come to be together.
In this cult favorite road film, a mechanic (Dennis Wilson) and a driver (James Taylor) live only to race and maintain their 1955 Chevy. Heading east from California with no particular agenda ...
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Jul 7, 2021 · Monte Hellman’s 1971 film, Two-Lane Blacktop, which opened 50 years ago today, still confounds not only critics but its fans and friends.
Two-Lane Blacktop. 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).
On the dark outskirts of Los Angles on a desolate straight line road, a local outlaw racing event featuring muscle cars of the late 60's and early 70's is unceremoniously busted during a 1/4 mile drag race between a Plymouth Barracuda, and a primer gray '55 Chevy 150.
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.
