George Hanson (Jack Nicholson) smokes a joint beside Wyatt (Peter Fonda) as the two sit at a campfire in a scene from the 1969 film ‘Easy Rider.’ | John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty ...
Today is the 50th anniversary of the first public screening of the cult 1969 movie Easy Rider. In the USA, many theatres are showing the film again. Here in Australia, you can watch it on DVD and ...
Robert Evins Pickard is an adjunct professor of U.S. and world history at Tennessee State University and Nashville State Community College. On July 14, 1969, "Easy Rider" debuted, receiving mixed ...
What happens when you let longhairs who want to destroy the movie business make a movie? You get Easy Rider, a rambunctious assault of a film that's as much a prediction of generational doom as it is ...
“A man went looking for America and couldn’t find it anywhere.” That was the tagline to “Easy Rider,” the beloved buddy pic that starred Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as a Harley-riding hippie duo who ...
In the second scene of the Peter Fonda–Dennis Hopper film Easy Rider there is a cameo part for Phil Spector. The scene takes place at a small airport and involves a silent transaction in which Spector ...
The tiny village of Morganza played a big role in “Easy Rider.” On Saturday, at the former Morganza High School, the unincorporated Pointe Coupee Parish community embraced its part in the ...
On this day (July 14) in 1969, Easy Rider premiered in theaters across the United States. For many moviegoers, it was their first look at the country’s growing counterculture movement. The film, ...
Peter Fonda, the actor who played Wyatt riding a Captain America Harley chopper in the 1969 movie Easy Rider, has died at the age of 79. The hippy film recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of its ...
His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.
Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider captured the imagination of a generation as a symbol of counterculture and living free. A time capsule from the 1960s, it chronicles a cross-country United States road trip ...