[Highway] is Morrison. Morrison hitchhiking. Morrison speeding through the desert. Morrison drinking beer. Morrison pissing. Only near the end did he reveal he had killed a man and stolen his car. The picture's beauty lay in its honesty. Morrison, the star, was totally free of everything—but himself.

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For those who missed the point, the film ends with a short "love is where it's at" rap by four persons bathing in a mountain stream.

Ed Jeffords, "Film Notes: 'Highway'," in Rolling Stone (by Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. © 1970; all rights reserved; reprinted by permission), Issue 57, April 30, 1970, p. 48.