In the Midwest of the 1920s, in the small-town Missouri bar, Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) is portrayed as a traveling salesman-huckster who sells shoeshines and vacuum cleaners.Easy Ridersurprisingly, was an extremely successful, low-budget (about $365,000), counter-cultural, independent film for he alternative youth/cult market - one of the first of its kind hat was an enormous financial success, eventually grossing $60 million worldwide.It became a living thing"; however, its old transmission Voyager response code no longer could be answered by Earth; Kirk asserted: "We are the creator" and proposed for V""Ger to complete its transmission but V""Ger wouldn""t allow the code to finish its final sequence; V""Ger insisted that the creator "join" it to allow it to fully evolve.The plot was accompanied by a perverse anti-consumerist critique of the mall culture and its mentality.