Drive, He Said + Goin' South

Here are two Jack Nicholson directorial efforts for your consideration: For Drive, He Said (1972), Nicholson’s work behind the lens isn’t half bad—Bruce Dern is terrific as the film’s manic basketball coach, and you have to like any movie that prominently features the voluptuous horror of Karen Black. Mary Steenburgen and John Belushi made their screen debuts in Nicholson’s second helmed feature, Goin' South (1978), a lackadaisical comic Western about a hunted man (Jack himself) who marries a spinster to appease the lynch mob on his trail.