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Dennis Hopper’s follow-up to his hugely successful directorial debut Easy Rider was a self-indulgent, over ambitious, drug-addled, critically drubbed box office flop. (It prompted his self-imposed exile from Hollywood for almost ten years.) Yet it remains a fascinating failure that has never been released to DVD or Blu-ray. Hopper plays a stuntman on a Hollywood film crew shooting a Western in the Peruvian Andes. When the movie wraps, Hopper decides to stay behind and live with the local peasants, who start imitating the Americans by shooting their own movie with hand-crafted wooden cameras but real violence. With Peter Fonda, Julie Adams, Sylvia Miles, Kris Kristofferson, and Sam Fuller, among others. Laszlo Kovacs did the beautiful cinematography.