Directed by Aram Avakian • 1970 • United States
Starring Stacy Keach, James Earl Jones, Harris Yulin
This X-rated, cult-classic black comedy is one of the most subversive, totally nihilistic transmissions from the fringes of the 1970s New Hollywood. A daring adaptation of the novel by John Barth filtered through the counterculture sensibility of screenwriter Terry Southern, END OF THE ROAD follows college grad Jacob Horner (Stacy Keach), who, after a catatonic episode, finds himself at “The Farm,” a sanitarium presided over the very, very unorthodox Doctor D (a totally deranged James Earl Jones). Following his discharge, Horner takes a job as a professor—but an affair with a colleague’s wife has disastrous consequences.
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The Magic Christian
Directed by Joseph McGrath • 1969 • United Kingdom
Starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, John CleeseAdapted by Terry Southern from his own novel, this wild satire of capitalism run amok stars Peter Sellers as a bored billionaire who, along with the street vagrant (Ringo Starr) he adopts as his s...