Rich Hall's Continental Drifters

Name: Rich Hall's Continental Drifters
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-11-16
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Rich Hall, Susan Schillinglaw, Richard Dillof

TV Movie
2011
1h 29m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

YOUR RATING

Documentary

Rich Hall hits the road as he takes a personal journey through the road movie, which, from the earliest days of American cinema has been synonymous with its culture.Rich Hall hits the road as he takes a personal journey through the road movie, which, from the earliest days of American cinema has been synonymous with its culture.Rich Hall hits the road as he takes a personal journey through the road movie, which, from the earliest days of American cinema has been synonymous with its culture.

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IMDb RATING

7.6/10

YOUR RATING

2User reviews

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Top Cast7

Rich Hall

Self - Presenter

Susan Schillinglaw

Self - Scholar-in-Residence, National Steinbeck Center
(as Dr. Susan Shillinglaw)

Richard Dillof

Self - Author: Hobo

Dan McNichol

Self

Allen Ginsberg

Self
(archive sound)

William Hjortsberg

Self - Author: Angel Heart

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Director
- Chris Cottam
Writer
- Rich Hall
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Quotes
Rich Hall: Do you know why there's never been a decent British road film? I'll tell you why, cos there's nothing remotely exhilarating about having to eat a rancid chicken salad sandwich from a BP station at the Bolton West services on the M61, that's why. There's nothing romantic about having an Eddie Stobart truck with the name of some mail order bride stenciled onto the front grille trying to ram itself up your ass at 80mph. Nothing! Have you ever been to a Happy Eater? No one's happy! In America, the automobile evokes individualism. It's a manifestation of the pioneer spirit. In Britain, it's a source of frustration and defeat. What the point of owning a fast, expensive car when there's nowhere to drive it? There's a reason that Top Gear is so disgustingly popular in Britain, it's grown men watching other grown men do what they'll never get to do themselves, you know, road porn. They should make a British road film. It'd be two guys stuck in an eight mile tailback waiting for roadworks to end. You won't even need dialogue, it'll just sound like this:
[sounds of car horns start playing]