The production manager and the director of photography of this biker movie, Paul Lewis and Laszlo (under the Anglicized pseudonym ‘Leslie’) Kovacs, went on with Jack Nicholson to make Easy Rider the following year. Easy Rider was directed by Dennis Hopper. It was the film that broke the conventional biker-movie mould - a mould set by Marlon Brando’s The Wild One in 1954.