Rebel Highway(1994)

series - first aired/released 1994-07-07 - audience 8.0

Drama, Crime

Directed by Allan Arkush, Joe Dante, John McNaughton, John Milius, Jonathan Kaplan, Mary Lambert, Ralph Bakshi, Robert Rodriguez, Uli Edel, William Friedkin

Rebel Highway is a 1994 revival of American International Pictures, created and produced by Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff, and Debra Hill for the Showtime network. The concept was a ten-week series of 1950s "drive-in classic" B-movies remade "with a '90s edge". Each episode shares a title with a late 1950s-early 1960s-era AIP film. However, they are not remakes; each installment is a different story from that which they are titled. The impetus for the series, according to Arkoff was, 'what it would be like if you made Rebel Without a Cause today. It would be more lurid, sexier, and much more dangerous, and you definitely would have had Natalie Wood's top off'.