Easy Rider

THE YEAR IS 1969. TO THE SOUND of Jimi Hendrix and Steppenwolf two drugdealing hippies - acted by Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda - drive through the American South on their motorbikes. The unruly strength of John Ford's classical Westerns is combined with the 60s anarchistic dream of freedom. The film points towards the disillusioned social critique predominant in the 70s American film, A modern classic.
Comment:
EASY RIDER WAS MY FIRST FILM AS a director. I was thirty-one. Many people think it's my best. I wanted to direct a film ever since I first walked onto a sound stage at eighteen. My ambition was to win the Cannes Film Festival. I won Best New Director, and received an Academy Award Nomination for Best Screenplay. The film was a tremendous commercial success, and afterwards, I could do anything I wanted. I went to Peru and directed The Last Movie, which I had written as my first screenplay with Stewart Stern three years before. _
DENNIS HOPPER

Cast
Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson: Producer
Peter Fonda: Script
Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Terry Southern: Cinematography
Laszlo Kovacs: Music
The Band, The Byrds, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Electric Prunes, Steppenwolf: Spoken language
English