Two-Lane Blacktop

no beginning... no end... no speed limit...

A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who challenges them to a cross-country race.

1971

1h 42min

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Top Billed Cast

James Taylor
The Driver
Warren Oates
G.T.O.
Dennis Wilson
The Mechanic
Laurie Bird
The Girl
Harry Dean Stanton
Oklahoma Hitchhiker
Jaclyn Hellman
Hot Rod Driver's Girl
Alan Vint
Man in Roadhouse
Katherine Squire
Old Woman
Bill Keller
Texas Hitchhiker
David Drake
Needles Station Attendant
Richard Ruth
Needles Station Mechanic
Don Samuels
Texas Policeman #1
Charles Moore
Texas Policeman #2
Tom Green
Boswell Attendant
W.H. Harrison
Parts Store Owner
Illa Ginnaven
Waitress in Roadhouse
George Mitchell
Truck Driver at Accident
A.J. Solari
Tennessee Hitchhiker
Melissa Hellman
Little Girl with Old Woman Picked Up by G.T.O.
James Mitchum
Man #2 at Race Track

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