Product Details

• Actors: Stacy Keach, Harris Yulin, Dorothy Tristan, James Earl Jones, Grayson Hall
• Directors: Aram Avakian
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Aae Films
• VHS Release Date: April 4, 1998
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6304963106
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #315,330 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A tattered signpost of late sixties indie cinema, April 10, 2001

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Lee Hill - See all my reviews

This review is from: End of the Road [VHS] (VHS Tape)

After working on Easy Rider, Terry Southern began collaborating with Aram Avakian on an intense adaptation of John Barth's debut novel. Shot in the summer and fall of 1968, when America was reeling from assasinations, the quagmire of Vietnam, rioting and ideological meltdown, the resulting film transforms Barth's existential character study into a chilling, visually stunning critique of political, sexual and cultural dysfunction. If the film's reach sometimes exceeds its grasp, there is still much that astonishes in this rarely screened film: the superb acting by Stacy Keach, James Earl Jones, Dorothy Tristan and Harris Yulin; the feature film debut of legendary cinematographer Gordon Willis; the haunting opening montage that relate's the lead's typical boomer upbringing against the horrorshow of post-WWII history; the music supervised by jazz producer George Avakian; and last, but not least, the uncompromising visionary screenplay by Terry Southern, Aram Avakian and Dennis McGuire. If you are a big fan of such end-of-sixties films as Performance and Two-Lane Blacktop, this is definitely your cup of tea.