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Fresh off of his Five Easy Pieces success, Jack Nicholson mounted his enormously irreverent directorial debut. Based on the best-selling novel by Jeremy Larner, Drive, He Said, free-spirited and sobering by turns, is a sketch of the exploits of a disaffected college basketball player (William Tepper) and his increasingly radical roommate (Michael Margotta), as well as a feverishly shot and edited snapshot of the early seventies (some of it was filmed during an actual campus protest). Fueled by Vietnam-era anxieties and perched on the edge of utter insanity, Nicholson’s audacious comedy (also starring Bruce Dern and Karen Black) is a startling howl direct from the zeitgeist.
Original Release
05/28/1971
US Release
06/13/1971
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Cast
Name | Character |
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William Tepper | Hector |
Karen Black | Olive |
Michael Margotta | Gabriel |
Bruce Dern | Coach Bullion |
Henry Jaglom | Conrad |
Michael Warren | Easly / Easly (as Mike Warren) |
June Fairchild | Sylvie |
Don Hanmer | Director of Athletics |
Lynette Bernay | Dance Instructor (as Lynn Bernay) / Dance Instructor |
Joseph Walsh | Announcer #1 (as Joey Walsh) / Announcer #1 |
Directors
Writers
Robert Towne, Jeremy Larner, Terrence Malick, Jack Nicholson
Cast
Name | Character |
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William Tepper | Hector |
Karen Black | Olive |
Michael Margotta | Gabriel |
Bruce Dern | Coach Bullion |
Henry Jaglom | Conrad |
Michael Warren | Easly / Easly (as Mike Warren) |
June Fairchild | Sylvie |
Don Hanmer | Director of Athletics |
Lynette Bernay | Dance Instructor (as Lynn Bernay) / Dance Instructor |
Joseph Walsh | Announcer #1 (as Joey Walsh) / Announcer #1 |
Charles Robinson | Jollop |
Bill Sweek | Finnegan |
David Ogden Stiers | Pro Owner (as David Stiers) / Pro Owner |
B.J. Merholz | Pro Lawyer |
Mireille Machu | Secretary |
Kenneth Payne | President Wallop |
Cathy Bradford | Rosemary |
Eric Johnson | Pfc. Johnson |
Bill Kenney | Phoneman |
Leonard Lookabaugh | Policeman |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Bert Schneider | Executive Producer |
Harry Gittes | Producer |
Jack Nicholson | Producer |
Steve Blauner | Producer |
Fred Roos | Producer |
Editors
Robert L. Wolfe, Pat Somerset, Christopher Holmes, Donn Cambern