Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1881 in DVD
• Released on: 2000-01-10
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English, French, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Danish, Icelandic, Swedish, Hungarian, Polish, Dutch, Finnish, Czech, Greek
• Dubbed in: German, Italian
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 91 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
This box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well) but it retains its original power, sense of daring and epochal impact. -- Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

Video Description
DVD Special Features

Interactive Menus
Audio Set Up
LAnguage Choice
Scene Selections
Extra Features: 67 minute 'Shaking The Cage' Featurette included, Directors Commentary, Filmographies
Languages: English
Mono: French/German/Italian/Spanish
Ratio: 1:1.85
Subtitles: English/French/German/Polish/Czech/

Hungarian/Hindi/Turkish/Danish/Swedish/Finnish/

Icelandic/Dutch/Norwegian/Potuguese/Greek/Hebrew/

Spanish/Italian

Synopsis
A landmark in film history, EASY RIDER blew the studio doors open for more young directors than any film before or since, helping to create the wide-open climate that would lead to the production of many outstanding films in the 1970s. As its director, Dennis Hopper is usually given the lion's share of credit for the film's success, but the revelations of time suggest that the contributions of the late Terry Southern and, to some degree, Jack Nicholson have endowed the film with much of its residual power. Starring Peter Fonda as Wyatt (alias Captain America) and Hopper as Billy, it traces the hippie duo's adventures as they mount their seriously chopped hogs on a journey to find the real America en route to Mardi Gras. In Arizona, they visit a commune whose members seem to be having a tough time, and in a small Texas town they're jailed for joining a parade. But they're quickly sprung by an ACLU lawyer, the quirky, hard-drinking George Hanson (Jack Nicholson), who accepts their offer to join them on the trip to New Orleans, eager to visit the best whorehouse in the South. Although parts of the film now seem dated and some of the language seems quaint, the tensions and hostilities of the period are accurately reflected, Laszlo Kovacs's photography is superb, and Nicholson is exceptional in his breakthrough role.

Customer Reviews

A truly dreadful film
I seem to remember having enjoyed seeing this at the cinema (when it was new). Not only that, but I recall choosing to listen to the soundtrack album. (I never owned a copy of it, though, putting my money where my mouth was didn't go beyond buying a cinema ticket.) Now, I find it impossible to imagine how I could have enjoyed either the film or its soundtrack.

The few good songs are more than counter-balanced by the ones that make me cringe (or worse). Can anyone now listen to "Don't Bogart that Joint" without feeling uncomfortable (at the very least)?

It's not just the soundtrack... For another thing, I now find that the film contains no sympathetic characters other, perhaps, than the person wielding the gun at the end. And that person would be a whole lot more sympathetic had he done the drive by shooting during the opening credits -- that way we'd have been spared this mess. Because a mess is what it is.

Many films, I find, stand the test of time -- but this is most certainly not one of them.

Its remaining so highly regarded is one of the world's great mysteries, as far as I'm concerned.

If Amazon allowed me to give no stars at all, that's what I'd do.

All gone to look for America.........
This still stands up 40 years on - perhaps now more than ever.

Two young guys setting out on an epic journey across the USA to get to the Mardi Gras encounter the real America warts & all.

Exhilerating & sobering at the same time.

A pure classic.

Check out the sequence accompanying Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild & also Jack Nicholson's superb stint as the drunk lawyer.

Essential viewing.

Best of the 60's
Why had I never seen this film until now? If you can only see one piece of 60's cinema that embodies the era and says something, I'd have to recommend Easy Rider, over even the likes of Blow-Up and Performance. It lay-down the ground works for the road movie and is basically a western set in the modern era, with two guys moving freely from place to place on motorbikes. However, without wanting to spoil the climax, this ain't no feel good mainstream riding off into the sunset leaving a town saved piece. Never before has the ending of a film effected me so much as that of Easy Rider, thanks to the strong performances (Jack Nicholson in particular) from its leads that, even though don't offer many details about the characters themselves, manage to make their parts strangely engaging. Like Brick, the photography and images are excellent and it has a great soundtrack too. Worth the price for the drug-induced scene towards the end. Beautiful.