Easy Rider Film Still

Easy Rider

Dennis Hopper

 
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (Criterion Blu-Ray)

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America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

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  • United States
  • 1969
  • 95 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • English
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  • Spine #545

SYNOPSIS: As Billy and “Captain America,” Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda motored down the highway on their Harley Davidsons to the roaring strains of Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild,” the definitive counterculture blockbuster was born. Former clean-cut teen star Hopper’s down-and-dirty directorial debut, Easy Rider heralded the arrival of a new voice in film, one pitched angrily against the mainstream. After Easy Rider’s cross-country journey—with its radical, New Wave–style editing, outsider-rock soundtrack, revelatory performance by a young Jack Nicholson, and explosive ending—the American road trip would never be the same.

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Cast

WyattPeter Fonda
BillyDennis Hopper
George HansonJack Nicholson
JesusAntonio Mendoza
ConnectionPhil Spector
BodyguardMac Mashourian
RancherWarren Finnerty
Rancher’s wife Tita Colorado
JackRobert Walker
MaryToni Basil
KarenKaren Black

Credits

DirectorDennis Hopper
Executive producerBert Schneider
ProducerPeter Fonda
Associate producerWilliam L. Hayward
ScreenplayPeter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern
Director of photographyLázló Kovács
EditingDonn Cambern
Art directorJerry Kay
Special effectsSteve Karkus
ConsultantHenry Jaglom

Disc Features

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography László Kovács (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack and optional DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
  • Two audio commentaries, one featuring actor-director-writer Dennis Hopper, the other Hopper, actor-writer Peter Fonda, and production manager Paul Lewis
  • Born to Be Wild (1995) and “Easy Rider”: Shaking the Cage, (1999), documentaries about the making and history of the film
  • Television excerpts showing Hopper and Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival
  • New video interview with BBS cofounder Steve Blauner
  • Theatrical trailers