The Trip (1967/II)

Director:

Roger Corman

Writer:

Jack Nicholson (written by)

Release Date:

23 August 1967 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

A Lovely Sort of Death

Plot:

Paul Groves (Peter Fonda), a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis...

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Acid | Director | Girl | Dwarf

Cast

Peter Fonda	...	Paul Groves
Susan Strasberg	...	Sally Groves
Bruce Dern	...	John
Dennis Hopper	...	Max
Salli Sachse	...	Glenn
Barboura Morris	...	Flo
Judy Lang	...	Nadine
Luana Anders	...	Waitress
Beach Dickerson
Dick Miller	...	Cash
Caren Bernsen	...	Alexandra
Katherine Walsh	...	Lulu
Michael Nader
Bárbara Ransom	...	Helena (as Barbara Ransom)
Michael Blodgett	...	Lover
Tom Signorelli	...	Al
Boyd Santell
Mitzi Hoag	...	Wife
Luree Holmes
Earl Finn
Roger Arroyo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Peter Bogdanovich	...	(uncredited)
Brandon De Wilde	...	Extra (uncredited)
Randee Lynne Jensen	...	Extra (uncredited)
Joyce Mandel	...	Go Go Dancer (uncredited)
Gram Parsons	...	House Band Member (uncredited)
Angelo Rossitto	...	Dwarf in Forest Fantasy (uncredited)
Frankie Smith	...	Go-Go Girl (uncredited)
Susan Walters	...	Go-Go Girl (uncredited)

Directed by
Roger Corman

Writing credits
Jack Nicholson		(written by)

Produced by
Roger Corman	....	producer
Frances Doel	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Electric Flag		(as The American Music Band)

Cinematography by
Archie R. Dalzell		(as Arch R. Dalzell)

Film Editing by
Ronald Sinclair

Art Direction by
Leon Ericksen

Makeup Department
Ted Coodley	....	makeup artist
Ray Forman	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Jack Bohrer	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Paul Rapp	....	assistant director
Dennis Hopper	....	second unit director (uncredited)

Art Department
Karl Brainard	....	props (as Karl R. Brainard)
Richard M. Rubin	....	props
Michel Levesque	....	set designer (uncredited)

Sound Department
Philip Mitchell	....	sound (as Phil Mitchell)
James Nelson	....	supervising sound editor (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Robert Beck	....	special psychedelic effects producer (as Bob Beck)
Allen Daviau	....	special psychedelic effects producer
Peter Gardiner	....	special psychedelic effects producer
Roger George	....	special effects (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Allen Daviau	....	assistant camera
Charles Hannawalt	....	key grip
Robert A. Petzoldt	....	lighting technician (as Robert Petzold)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Richard Bruno	....	wardrobe

Music Department
Electric Flag	....	performer: musical score (as The American Music Band)

Other crew
Samuel Z. Arkoff	....	presenter
James Blumberg	....	technical advisor
Sharon Compton	....	production assistant
Beach Dickerson	....	location manager (as Beach Dickersen)
Leon Ericksen	....	production coordinator
Dennis Jakob	....	montage sequences
James H. Nicholson	....	presenter
Bonnie Prendergast	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• American International Pictures (AIP)

Distributors

• American International Pictures (AIP) (1967) (USA) (theatrical)
• Astral Films (1967) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Gloria Filmverleih AG (1969) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• MGM Home Entertainment (2004) (Germany) (DVD)
• Cinema Mondo (1992) (Finland) (theatrical)
• FS Film Oy (2004) (Finland) (DVD)
• MGM Home Entertainment (2007) (USA) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Charlatan Productions (special psychedelic effects creator)

Other Companies

• Ryder Sound Services  sound
• Edit-Rite  sound effects
• Groscourt Productions  music produced by

Also Known As:

Runtime:

85 min | West Germany:78 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Pathécolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:16 (1968) | Germany:18 (TV rating) | Finland:K-16 (1991) | Australia:R | Finland:(Banned) (1968) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 (video re-rating) (2002) | UK:R (original rating) | UK:R (video rating) (1988) | USA:Not Rated | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Big Sur, California, USA

Company:

American International Pictures (AIP)

Trivia:

The film was rejected for a UK certificate 4 times by the BBFC (in 1967, 1971, 1980 and 1988) as it was considered an advertisement for the use of LSD. The film was shown uncut on the FilmFour satellite channel in 2002 and finally given a fully uncut UK DVD certificate in January 2004, almost 37 years after its first BBFC submission.

Quotes:

Paul Groves:[Holding an orange up to the horizon] That's the sun in my hands, man! Oh, it gives off an orange cloud of light that just flows right out over the sea! Wow!

Movie Connections:

Edited into Allen Daviau, ASC on Psychedelic Film Effects (2003) (V)

Soundtrack:

Softly and Tenderly

decent drug movie

To be honest, I thought I would grow quickly bored with this movie since I heard that all it was is a bunch of cool psychedelic effects and not much else. Well, I actually found it interesting. After an opening five minutes with some bad acting I rolled my eyes but the movie got better....and Peter Fonda's performance got better. Fonda plays Paul, a TV commercial director who goes on his first LSD trip. He thinks he might learn something from it and does. You start to lose track of what reality is just like Paul does. Dennis Hopper has some interesting scenes and Bruce Dern is good as well. Having never touched acid, I can't tell you how realistic the effects are but found them interesting to watch. In order to do research, director Roger Corman took LSD and had a pleasant experience. Bruce Dern however has never taken it so found his role as someone who was kind of an expert on the matter, a challenging acting job. However, Jack Nicolson wrote the script and I expect he did plenty of research...he-he. Surprisingly, a pretty cool movie, dude!