Two-Lane Blacktop
no beginning... no end... no speed limit...
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.
- 6.9
- 1971
- Released
- 1h 42m
James Taylor
The Driver
Warren Oates
G.T.O.
Dennis Wilson
The Mechanic
Laurie Bird
The Girl
Harry Dean Stanton
Oklahoma Hitchhiker
Jaclyn Hellman
Hot Rod Driver's Girl
Alan Vint
Man in Roadhouse
Katherine Squire
Old Woman
Bill Keller
Texas HitchhikerDavid Drake
Needles Station AttendantRichard Ruth
Needles Station MechanicDon Samuels
Texas Policeman #1Charles Moore
Texas Policeman #2Tom Green
Boswell AttendantW.H. Harrison
Parts Store OwnerIlla Ginnaven
Waitress in Roadhouse
George Mitchell
Truck Driver at AccidentA.J. Solari
Tennessee HitchhikerMelissa Hellman
Little Girl with Old Woman Picked Up by G.T.O.
James Mitchum
Man #2 at Race TrackKreag Caffey
Boy with MotorcycleTom Witenbarger
Pickup Truck DriverGlen Rogers
Soldier #1Tomas Moore
Kid at Drive-In (uncredited)Big Willie Robinson III
Street Racer in Daytona (uncredited)![Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/J5sxfIBCTY0/hqdefault.jpg)
Released
en
$850,000.00
- #car race
- #car mechanic
- #chevrolet
- #road movie
- #drag race
Reviews
<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 bag from another guy's car and moving it to their car. Where are you heading? she asks them. East, the
**_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 to nowhere with a man in a GTO from an earlier generation (Warren Oates). “Two-Lane Blacktop”