Two-Lane Blacktop

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.

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

Reviews

Wuchak

**_The metaphoric endless highway of meaningless life_** A driver and mechanic of a souped-up ’55 Chevy (James Taylor and Dennis Wilson) have one-track minds as they drive across the American landscape, picking up a searchin’ teen girl who’s into casual sex (Laurie Bird) and setting-up a non-race...

buckyogi@fedora ༗

<strong>Those Satisfactions are Permanent</strong> As the film opens we meet the Driver (James Taylor) and the Mechanic (Dennis Wilson). They live to race and race to live. We never learn their names nor their relationship to each other. The Girl (Laurie Bird) joins them by removing her duffel ba...

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