Directed by Monte Hellman
Two nameless young men, The Driver and The Mechanic, race a Pontiac GTO with an equally nameless driver across the American landscape from New Mexico toward Washington, D.C. in their 1955 Chevy, with a teenage hitchhiker along for the ride, in Monte Hellman’s metaphorical take on the rhythms of American life, before the interstate highway era.
Universal Pictures; Michael Laughlin Enterprises, Inc. Producer: Michael S. Laughlin. Screenwriter: Rudolph Wurlitzer, Will Corry. Cinematographer: Jack Deerson. Editor: Monte Hellman. Cast: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson, David Drake.
35mm, color, 102 min.
