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	Peter Tork	Peter
	Davy Jones	Davy
	Micky Dolenz	Micky
	Michael Nesmith	Mike
	Victor Mature	The Big Victor
	Annette Funicello	Minnie
	Timothy Carey	Lord High 'n Low
	Logan Ramsey	Off. Faye Lapid
	Abraham Sofaer	Swami
	Vito Scotti	I. Vitteloni
	Charles Macaulay	Inspector Shrink
	T.C. Jones	Mr. and Mrs. Ace
	Charles Irving	Mayor Feedback
	William Bagdad	Black Sheik
	Percy Helton	Heraldic Messenger
	Sonny Liston	Extra
	Ray Nitschke	Private One
	Carol Doda	Sally Silicone
	Frank Zappa	The Critic
	June Fairchild	The Jumper
	Teri Garr	Testy True
	Mireille Machu	Lady Pleasure
	Terry Chambers	Oreh
	Mike Burns	Gnihton
	Esther Shepard	Rehtom

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Director	Bob Rafelson
Writer	Bob Rafelson, Jack Nicholson, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork
Producer	Jack Nicholson, Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider
Photography	Michel Hugo

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Part of: America Lost and Found - The BBS Story boxset

Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who knew that what Hollywood needed was new audiences-namely, young people-and that meant cultivating new talent and new ideas. Fueled by money from their invention of the superstar TV pop group the Monkees, they set off on a film-industry journey that would lead them to form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community. The innovative films produced by this team between 1968 and 1972 are collected in this box set-works that now range from the iconic (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show) to the acclaimed (The King of Marvin Gardens) to the obscure (Head; Drive, He Said; A Safe Place), all created within the studio system but lifted right out of the countercultural id.

Head 1968
Hey, hey, it’s the Monkees . . . being catapulted through one of American cinema’s most surreal sixties odysseys. The brainchild of Bob Rafelson, making his directorial debut; his producing partner and Monkees cocreator Bert Schneider; and Jack Nicholson, a coscreenwriter on the project, Head was the fanciful beginning and ignominious end of the TV-bred supergroup’s big-screen career. In it, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork become trapped in a kaleidoscopic satire that’s movie homage, media send-up, concert movie, and antiwar cry all at once. A constantly looping, self-referential spoof that was ahead of its time, Head dodged commercial success on its release but has since been reclaimed as one of the great cult objects of its era.

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