Shooting / Ride In Whirlwind/Dvd, Criterion Collection, DVD
In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman (TWO-LANE BLACKTOP) conceived of two westerns at the same time. Dreamlike and gritty by turns, the two films would prove their maker's adeptness at brilliantly deconstructing genre. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman (THE WILD ANGELS), they feature overlapping casts and crews, including Jack Nicholson (FIVE EASY PIECES) in two of his meatiest early roles. The films - THE SHOOTING, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND, about a group of cowhands pursued by vigilantes for crimes they did not commit - are rigorous, artful, and wholly unconventional journeys into the American West.
Product Attributes: $5 - $10, All, B. J. Merholz, Brandon Carroll, Cameron Mitchell, Charles Eastman, Criterion Collection, Criterion Collection (Direct), Dean Stanton, Gary Kent, George Mitchell, Guy El Tsosie, Jack Nicholson, James Campbell, John Hackett, Katherine Squire, Millie Perkins, Monte Hellman, Movies, Movies & TV › Movies, Neil Summer, Over $10, Peter Cannon, Rupert Crosse, Tom Filer, Under $5, Wally Moon, Walter Phelps, Warren Oates, Westerns, Will Hutchins, William A. Keller, William Mackleprang