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Hoodlum Movies: Seriality and the Outlaw Biker Film Cycle, 1966-1972. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-9901-4. Stidworthy, David (2024). High on the Hogs: A Biker Filmography. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1131-0. Wooley, John; Price, Michael H. (2005). The Big Book Of Biker Flicks: 40 Of The Best Motorcycle Movies Of All Time. Hawk Pub ...
The Wild Angels is a 1966 American independent [3] outlaw biker film produced and directed by Roger Corman. Made on location in Southern California, The Wild Angels was the first film to associate actor Peter Fonda with Harley-Davidson motorcycles and 1960s counterculture. It inspired the biker film genre that continued into the early 1970s.
In the 1960s, he decided to introduce the character of Billy Jack in a quickly written script designed to capitalize on the then-popular trend in motorcycle gang movies. The story was based on a real incident from 1964 where members of the Hells Angels were arrested for raping two teenage girls in Monterey, California.
In 1969, Peter Fonda, Hopper, and Nicholson teamed up on the classic "hippie biker" movie, Easy Rider, the antithesis of the violent biker-gang genre. Sonny Barger, founder of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels, was a consultant on several films. He and other gang members appeared as extras in Hells Angels on Wheels and Hell's Angels '69.
The drama movie takes place in the 1960s and follows the lives of local outcasts in a Chicago motorcycle gang called Outlaws MC that become like family. ... Hardy appreciated how immersive the ...
Hells Angels on Wheels is a 1967 American biker film directed by Richard Rush, and starring Adam Roarke, Jack Nicholson, and Sabrina Scharf. [2] The film tells the story of a gas-station attendant with a bad attitude who finds life more exciting after he is allowed to hang out with a chapter of the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club.
Jeff Nichols' movie inspired by a real '60s motorcycle club, starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, and Tom Hardy, is reverent to a fault.
Motorpsycho or Motor Psycho is a 1965 film by Russ Meyer.Produced just before Meyer's better-known Faster, Pussycat!Kill! Kill! (1965), the film explores similar themes of sex and violence but focuses on a male motorcycle gang rather than the female gang of go-go dancers featured in the later film.