Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (8/10) Movie CLIP - The Lonely Highway Patrolman (1998) HD

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: When leaving Las Vegas, Duke (Johnny Depp) gets pulled over by a Highway Patrolman (Gary Busey) after a high speed desert chase. FILM DESCRIPTION: Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic $21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunter S. Thompson classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream, about stoned sportswriter Raoul Duke, Thompson's alter ego, on a wild drug-crazed road trip, a paranoid plummet into the belly of the beast, with his pal, lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta. Originally serialized in Rolling Stone (November 1971), the book catapulted Thompson headfirst toward the Kerouac-Mailer-Capote pantheon and jump-started the entire movement of “gonzo journalism.“ Carrying a su