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Peter Fonda: Jack Nicholson
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Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Peter Fonda, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Jackie Chan are all entrants in an illegal cross-country car race, and all are willing to do anything to win. Read More
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![Wyatt (Peter Fonda), Mary (Toni Basil), Billy (Dennis Hopper) and Karen (Karen Black) [right] wandering the streets of a parade-filled New Orleans. This part of the film was shot in 16mm.](http://retrieverimages.lycos.com/images/p/e/t/peter-fonda/i/016.jpg)
The restaurant scenes with Fonda, Hopper and Nicholson were shot in Morganza, Louisiana. The men and girls in that scene were all Morganza locals. In order to incite more vitriolic commentary from the local men, Hopper told them to play the scene as if Billy, Wyatt, and George had raped a girl outside of town. The scene in which both Captain America and Billy were shot was filmed on Hwy. 105 North just outside of Krotz Springs, Louisiana, and the two men in the scene were Krotz Springs locals.
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Ulee Jackson, Fonda's character, is a Vietnam veteran, which is alluded to only briefly but casts a shadow over the entire film. His affect suggests serious trauma, but it's hard to tell how much he suffered during his stint as a "jungle fighter," as his son calls him, and how much from watching his family disintegrate in more recent years. Ulee escaped one war only to find himself in another, against an intangible enemy: everything that's working to take his family from him.
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