What is Two-lane Blacktop / Ride in the Whirlwind about?

TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, 1971, Universal, 101 min, Drama/Existential/Road Movie, USA. Dir. Monte Hellman. Two motorheads in a supercharged Chevy (James Taylor and Dennis Wilson) take on Warren Oates and his monstrous Pontiac GTO in a cross-country race. Haunted by the vast, open spaces of the Midwest and an addictive sense of speed, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP is the essential American road movie - Hellman calls it "the last movie of the ’60s." RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND, 1966, 83 min, Western/Drama, USA. In Monte Hellman’s flipside to THE SHOOTING, cowhands Jack Nicholson and Cameron Mitchell find themselves mistaken for bandits and hunted to extinction. Nicholson plays it totally straight here - his naturalistic dialogue was based on Old West diaries.

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What is Two-lane Blacktop / Ride in the Whirlwind about?: TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, 1971, Universal, 101 min, Drama/Existential/Road Movie, USA. Dir. Monte Hellman. Two motorheads in a supercharged Chevy (James Taylor and Dennis Wilson) take on Warren Oates and his monstrous Pontiac GTO in a cross-country race. Haunted by the vast, open spaces of the Midwest and an addictive sense of speed, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP is the essential American road movie - Hellman calls it "the last movie of the ’60s."
RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND, 1966, 83 min, Western/Drama, USA. In Monte Hellman’s flipside to THE SHOOTING, cowhands Jack Nicholson and Cameron Mitchell find themselves mistaken for bandits and hunted to extinction. Nicholson plays it totally straight here - his naturalistic dialogue was based on Old West diaries.