Cult director Monte Hellman may be one of the few major influences on Quentin Tarantino whose films it's still somewhat difficult to see. While his major achievements, like Cockfighter and Two Lane Blacktop (one of the most famous scenes from which is above, followed by an interview with the director) have been released in swanky critic-baiting editions, some of his other films aren't even copyrighted and end up in those fifty-DVDs-for-ten-bucks anthologies you get at drugstores. Witness his first film, the freaky vampire schlocker Beast from Haunted Cave, or his revisionist western China 9, Liberty 37, neither of which are available in anything but the jumbo family pack edition. (The kung-fu movie he partially completed in between Two Lane Blacktop and Cockfighter is allegedly available as a two-pack, but we've never seen it, and even YouTube couldn't find us a clip. Where's Rolling Thunder when you need them?) — Leonard Pierce