Monte Hellman Movies

A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literature and a narrative storyline featuring Paul Rudd...

Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does...

An Australian widower living in New Guinea starts a relationship with a woman very similar to his much-beloved wife, but their life together turns...

During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese...

This interview features director Monte Hellman and singer-songwriter-actor Kris Kristofferson. It was filmed in Los Angeles in the summer of 2007.

Pilot Harry Black is hired to fly a man named Carlyle to Istanbul, where he's murdered. Now, mysterious Diane Reed and a local gangster, Rashi, are...

A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he...

After a plane crash in the Philippine jungle, two men, one an avaricious killer who has come to the islands to search for a fortune in diamonds, the...

Set in 1950's Hollywood, two filmmakers become unlikely friends: Leo, who writes violent B-movies, and Stanley, a promising director. Nothing can...

DESTROY THIS MAN and a fortune in diamonds is yours. A Filipino version of 1964's FLIGHT TO FURY, filmed back-to-back with that film.

An interview with the producers of Monte Hellman's 1971 film TWO-LANE BLACKTOP.

Monte Hellman was born in 1932. By 1986 he made eight features, but had not directed for six years. I had made as many documentaries, but had not...

After not having seen each other in thirty-five years, Monte Hellman and James Taylor sat down for this conversation, recorded in the fall of 2007 in...

A retrospective documentary on the making of Monte Hellman's 1971 film TWO-LANE BLACKTOP.

Interview film with Monte Hellman.