Five Easy Pieces

Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" (lyrics by the artist, tune by Billy Sherrill), with scenes from oil fields around Bakersfield, CA, sets the tone for the opening credit sequence from director Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces, 1970, starring Jack Nicholson.

With waitress girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black) and lesbian hitchers Palm and Terry (Helena Kallianiotes, Toni Basil), Robert (Jack Nicholson) pulls over for the famous restaurant scene with waitress Lorna Thayer, in Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces, 1970.

Wayward classical pianist Robert (Jack Nicholson) is in trouble with his waitress girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black) for hitting on loose local girls in the bowling alley, in Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces, 1970.

Home from his low-rent wanderings due to family illness, trained pianist Robert (Jack Nicholson) plays Chopin's Prelude to Opus 28 in E Minor #4 for Catherine (Susan Anspach), his brother's fianceè, with a famous camera move, in director Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces, 1970.

Jack Nicholson's first major movie vehicle was Five Easy Pieces (1970), about a classical pianist pursuing a blue-collar life.