Goin’ South was the second film Nicholson directed, the first being Drive, He Said. His third directorial effort, The Two Jakes, comes out this year. Goin’ South is a product of the old Nicholson/BBS gang who made Easy Rider. The cameraman was Nestor Almendros, the producers Harold Schneider and Harry Gittes, who lent his name to the character J.J. Gittes in Chinatown.