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	Peter Fonda	Wyatt
	Dennis Hopper	Billy
	Antonio Mendoza	Jesus
	Phil Spector	Connection
	Mac Mashourian	Bodyguard
	Warren Finnerty	Rancher
	Tita Colorado	Rancher's Wife
	Luke Askew	Stranger on Highway
	Luana Anders	Lisa
	Sabrina Scharf	Sarah
	Sandy Wyeth	Joanne
	Robert Walker Jr.	Jack
	Robert Ball	Mime #1
	Carmen Phillips	Mime #2
	Ellie Wood Walker	Mime #3
	Michael Pataki	Mime #4
	Jack Nicholson	George Hanson
	George Fowler Jr.	Guard
	Keith Green	Sheriff
	Hayward Robillard	Cat Man
	Arnold Hess Jr.	Deputy
	Buddy Causey Jr.	Customer #1
	Duffy Lafont	Customer #2
	Blase M. Dawson	Customer #3
	Paul Guedry Jr.	Customer #4

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Director	Dennis Hopper
Writer	Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
Producer	Peter Fonda, William Hayward, Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider
Photography	László Kovács, Baird Bryant

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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.

Easy Rider
This is the definitive counterculture blockbuster. The down-and-dirty directorial debut of former clean-cut teen star Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider heralded the arrival of a new voice in film, one pitched angrily against the mainstream. After the film’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.


SPECIAL FEATURES
Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography László Kovács, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Alternate 2.0 and 5.1 surround soundtracks, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
Two audio commentaries, one from 2009, featuring actor-director-writer Dennis Hopper, and the other from 1995, featuring 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 in 1969
Interview from 2010 with BBS Productions cofounder Steve Blauner
Theatrical trailers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
An essay by film critic Matt Zoller Seitz

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