Description
Human Highway VHS 1982 / A film by Neil Young / Directed by Bernard Shakey, Dean Stockwell / Starring: Russell Tamblyn, Dean Stockwell, Devo, Neil Yound, Dennis Hopper, Sally Kirkland
UPC 075993841732 / 5998329507827
PAL VHS
MADE IN Germany
AUDIO: English 2.0
Total Runtime: 83 minutes
English Summary:
Human Highway is a 1982 American comedy film starring and co-directed by Neil Young under his pseudonym Bernard Shakey. Dean Stockwell co-directed the film and acted along with Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, and the band Devo. Included is a collaborative performance of "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" by Devo and Young with Booji Boy singing lead vocals and Young playing lead guitar.
Employees and customers spend time at a small gas station-diner in a fictional town next to a nuclear power plant unaware it is the last day on Earth. Young Otto Quartz has received ownership of the failing business by the Will of his recently deceased father. His employee, Lionel Switch, is the garage's goofy and bumbling auto mechanic who dreams of being a rock star. "I can do it!" Lionel often exclaims. After some modest character development and a collage-like dream sequence there is a tongue-in-cheek choreographed musical finale while nuclear war begins.
At the destroyed gas station-diner post nuclear holocaust Booji Boy, is a lone survivor, but after his cynical prose the opening credits are a return to present time prior to apocalypse. [Some edits of the film place this scene at the end, including the most recent Director's Cut.]
Cast:
Neil Young as "Lionel Switch", the garage mechanic,
Russ Tamblyn as "Fred Kelly" who is Lionel's friend,
Dean Stockwell as "Otto Quartz", the restaurant and gas station owner
Dennis Hopper as the cook, "Cracker"
Charlotte Stewart as "Charlotte"
Sally Kirkland as "Kathryn"
Geraldine Baron as "Irene"
Several of the cast members became favorites of David Lynch. The members of Devo were cast as "Nuclear Garbagepersons". The film was released shortly after the death of 1960s folk-singer David Blue who was cast as the milkman, "Earl Duke".
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Cinematography | David Myers |
Edited by | James Beshears |
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Shakey Pictures
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Distributed by | Warner Reprise Video |
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83 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |