DEALING: Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
3604DVD
Legendary
Drug-culture Film written by Michael Crichton
director: Paul Williams
starring: Barbara Hershey · Robert F Lyons · Charles Durning
· Joy Bang · John Lithgow · Anitra Walsh
A campus drug dealer
(debut for John Lithgow, above left) sends a Harvard law student
named Peter to San Francisco to smuggle a shipment of marijuana back to
Boston. While he's in San Francisco, Peter meets and falls in love with
hippie girl Susan. After returning to Boston, Peter convinces his dealer
to have Susan bring the next shipment, so he can see her again. Enroute,
the girl gets busted by a corrupt cop (the late Charles Durning), who
sells the shipment to some Cuban dealers. Peter and John decide to steal
it back but find themselves in big trouble when they realize they've also
snatched $100,000 in heroin from the Latinos.
This motion picture
is based on an early novel written by Michael Crichton (as Michael Douglas)
who later found wagonloads of money with his books Westworld,
Andromedia Strain and Jurassic Park. In 1986.
Mr Crichton believed he had become possessed by the devil and underwent
a Vatican-approved exorcism. After the ceremony, he got married for the
fourth time (to Anne-Marie Martin, a marriage which would also end in
divorce 12 years later) and contracted with Steven Spielberg for Jurassic
Park motion picture [plus sequels]. He died from cancer in November
2008 at age 66.
An
American film in English language; fullscreen format (4:3), uncut (89
minutes), DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT; extras include
selected theatrical trailers.
Violence/Nudity/Sexual
Situations/Drugs
Recommended for Adult Audiences
