Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- car race
- car mechanic
- chevrolet
- road movie
- drag race
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Rudy Wurlitzer — Hot Rod Driver
- 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
- Directed
- Monte Hellman
- Written
- Rudy Wurlitzer, Will Corry, Floyd Mutrux
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 261 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Michael Laughlin Enterprises
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
