The Trip (1967 Future Cult Classic)

The twelfth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1967 features our future cult classic pick, Roger Corman’s The Trip. Directed by Roger Corman from a script by Jack Nicholson and starring Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Susan Strasberg and Dennis Hopper, The Trip was a hit that capitalized on the counterculture zeitgeist.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/24/archives/screen-the-trip-on-view-at-2-housesfilm-tries-to-simulate.html), Time magazine (http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,841080,00.html), and Wendy Michener in Maclean’s (https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1967/11/1/a-satirists-savage-song-of-hatred).

Special thanks to our guest Francisco Menendez, whose Roger Corman-produced film Stealing Las Vegas can be streamed for free with ads on IMDb TV or rented via all major VOD outlets.

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1967 installment, featuring our audience choice poll winner, stage musical adaptation How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.