Two Lane Black Top - DVD Release

This Cult 70's road movie finally comes to DVD in Australia.

The cast includes two cars, a 55 Chevy with a 454 big block and and a new GTO with a 455.

Monte Hellman’s road movie masterpiece stars James Taylor and Dennis Wilson (The Beach Boys) as two nameless car junkies drag racing across a vast, vacant America. In the tradition of Easy Rider, this stark journey along an American road to nowhere follows ‘the driver’ (Taylor) and ‘the mechanic’ (Wilson) in their souped-up 1955 Chevy until they pick up a lone girl (Laurie Bird) on the highway, and their course changes forever. Jealousies and tensions soon simmer between the road warriors before a middle-aged, alcoholic loner driving a 1970 Pontiac GTO Warren Oates) challenges them to a race for the Pontiac, and the girl. The Village Voice praised Hellman’s “feeling for the vast inhuman distances which form the face of America and the character of her people."

An interesting bit of trivia involves a couple of the '55 Chevys used in the movie. One of the '55s in Two-Lane Blacktop was the car driven by Harrison Ford in American Graffiti.