Light Years
1966-01-01 · 18 min · Not rated
Black-and-white UCLA Student Film Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. An impressionistic portrait of a man haunted by his past, which comes careening into his present when he goes for a motorcycle ride with his girlfriend. Starring Dennis Hopper.
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- Directors
- J. David Wyles
- Production companies
- North American Ibis Alchemical Co.
- Countries
- United States of America
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- Released
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