Ride in the Whirlwind

Monte Hellman is an American film director, producer, and film editor. Hellman is among a group of directing talent mentored by Roger Corman, who produced several of the director's early films. Hellman's most critically acclaimed film to date has been Two-Lane Blacktop , a road movie that was a... box office failure at the time of its initial release but has subsequently turned into a perennial cult favorite. Hellman's two acid westerns starring Jack Nicholson, Ride in the Whirlwind and The Shooting, both shot in 1965 and released directly to television in 1968, have also developed cult followings, particularly the latter. A third western, China 9, Liberty 37 , was far less successful critically, although it too has its admirers, as do Cockfighter and Iguana . In 1989 he directed the straight-to-video slasher film Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!. Monte Hellman other credits: He was the dialogue director for Corman's The St. Valentine's Day Massacre .
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