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Hells Angels on Wheels

starring: Adam Roarke, Jack Nicholson, Sabrina Scharf, Jana Taylor, Richard Anders
directed by: Richard Rush

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381070323
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: U.S. Films Inc.
Manufacturer: U.S. Films Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: U.S. Films Inc.
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 30, 2003
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 10246
Studio: U.S. Films Inc.
Theatrical Release Date: 1967-06



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Description:
When he loses his job, gas station attendant Poet (Academy Award-winner Jack Nicholson) falls in with a rough band of Hells Angels who terrorize Northern California in a hellraising frenzy of parties and gang fights. Choppers, drugs, sex, murder and mayhem ensue as Poet and gang leader Buddy (Adam Roarke) head down a dark road to danger. From acclaimed cult director Richard Rush (The Stunt Man) with cinematography by the legendary László Kovács (Easy Rider, Paper Moon) and music by Stu Phillips (Battlestar Gallactica, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls).

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This pair of Joe Solomon-produced biker dramas are two of the better examples of the '60s subgenre. Jack Nicholson stars in Hell's Angels on Wheels as a moody cycle-riding gas station attendant adopted by Adam Roarke's gang when he jumps into a friendly bar fight. It's a fairly blatant rip-off of Roger Corman's The Wild Angels, but director Richard Rush (who next teamed up with Nicholson for the counterculture classic Psych-Out) offers up a lifestyle that's less nihilistic than simply meaningless and winds the unlikely friendship between restless Nicholson and rootless Roarke into an inevitable clash over basic philosophical differences (namely, Jack wants Adam's girl, and Adam wants Jack to kowtow to his leadership). William Smith is an unusual hero in Run Angel Run: he's a sellout on the run from vengeful biker clubs up and down the coast. Director Jack Starrett, a former actor in biker movies himself (Hell's Angels on Wheels, among others), creates a taut little picture highlighted by impressive stunts (Smith jumps onto the flat car of a moving train). Smith's brooding, taciturn performance mellows when he takes a job on a rural sheep farm and connects with a career farmer who used to be a barnstorming biker in the 1950s. 'I gotta be free man, I gotta fly,' confesses Angel, but at what price? Both pictures were cheaply made for quick playoff, but there's an interesting attempt to explore the tension between the thrill of the road and the hollow activity passing for freedom. The set comes in a cool-looking 8 by 12 tin storage container, but the tapes do not have separate video sleeves. --Sean Axmaker



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Hey, it was the Sixties, maaannnn!!!
This low-budget, 60's-fare biker movie was OKAY. Two years before his star-making turn in Easy Rider, ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Young Jack Nicholson as a Hell's Angel
Biker films came into vogue after the 1966 release of the infamous "The Wild Angels;" they remained popular ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Hells Angels fight then ride then fight then ride..........
First of all, this movie was worth 10 bucks. If for no other reason than to see young Jack Nicholson talking ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Hells Angels on Wheels
A great movie, really fun and captures the feeling of the time


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Casual Biker Movie
Nicolson could have been a real Angel. A classic for your library. Most enjoyable.

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