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Title: The Hitchhikers (1972)
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Maggie
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Nick Klar | ... |
Benson
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Linda Avery | ... |
Diana
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Tammy Gibbs | ... |
Hitchiker
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Kathy Stutsman | ... |
Hitchiker
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Mary Thatcher | ... |
Hitchiker
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Denny Nichols | ... |
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Ted Zeigler | ... |
Church Deacon
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Efrem Dockter | ... |
Store Manager
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Lou Joffred | ... |
Doctor
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Bleu McKenzie | ... |
Reb
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Lee Morley | ... |
Used-Car Salesman
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Jim Sherwood | ... |
Nemo
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Prince Johnny Reb | ... |
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
13 July 1972 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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OK, this movie isn't very good--but it IS the early 1970's. It has the hippies, the free love, the short-shorts, and not a bra in sight. It has the groovy, pleasantly awful early 70's folk-rock music. It is meandering, amoral, and ultimately completely pointless. It's a road movie that doesn't really go anywhere. Like many movies of the time it tried to exploit the infamy of the Manson family, but its anti-hero "Benson" is not nearly as crazy or vicious as the real-life Manson, and his "family" consists of only a few under-dressed women whom he uses to hold up horny male motorists, all to finance his evil master plan of buying a broken-down school bus. Misty Rowe stars as a teenage runaway and "Benson's" main squeeze, and she demonstrates all the raw talent that would later lead to her unforgettable work on "Hee Haw". There's some (mostly Misty-related) nudity, but there's very little sex for this kind of flick and even less violence. But if you have a soft spot in your heart for early 70's drive-in Americana, you could do worse I guess.