Angels Hard As They Come (1971)

[Scott]

ANGELS HARD AS THEY COME (1971) This is a biker film must have been one of the great Drive-In movies. Cool looking motorcycles, desert locations, and hard action in this movie about bikers and hippies in an old ghost town (probably an old western set). If you like biker movies check it out as it is on par with the better films of the genre.



Here is a list of biker movies that I'v seen:

The Wild One
Wild Angels
Easy Rider
Angel Unchained
Angels Hard As They Come
Hells Angels On Wheels
Psychomania
She Devils On Wheels
Born Losers
Mad Max
Quadraphenia
Hells Angels Forever (documentary)



Post Edited (09-10-04 14:57)

[Yaddo42]

Wonder if this one gets mentioned on Scott Glenn's resume.

Well, I've mentioned that I'm not a fan of most biker movies, but that title deserves some kind of consideration. You could have a film festival of films with unintended or inappropriately suggestive titles.

Looking at your list, I'm surprised "Werewolves on Wheels" isn't on there. Not great, worth seeing just for the odd combo of biker and attempted horror. But the satanic ritual in that one is pretty good. Plus singer Barry "Eve of Destruction" McGuire plays a biker role.

[trekgeezer]

I think it's interesting that  Johnathan Demme (director of Silence of the Lambs & the remake of  The Manchurian Candidate) is the writer and one of the producers.  Guess we all have to start somewhere.

[Scott]

Wow, I'll have to keep a look out for WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS. Haven't seen it yet.

[StatCat]

I've never even heard of this one- is it an out of print video?

Here's a few other ones that might be worth seeing biker wise:

The Glory Stompers (saw it on tv once, want to get the video)
Hells Angels '69
Cycle Savages (bad, really bad but funny at least for the most part)

I was totally let down by werewolves on wheels, it sucks. I was hoping to see a gang of biker werewolves harrasing people but all I got was this stupid mess of satanic nonsense and some really hard to see night scenes.

[Ozzymandias]

Is Cycle Savages the movie with "the Iron Butterfly Theme" in it?  I love that song sort of a mini-"In A Gadda Da Vida".

I notice Charles Dierkop is in that film. I believe he is the guy from Police Woman with the funny looking nose. It always looked like he made that out of Silly Puddy.

[Scott]

Statcat bought ANGELS HARD AS THEY COME on DVD for $3.99 at Pathmark Supermarket.

Wow, now I have four more biker movies to look into. Thanks.

Werewolves on Wheels
The Glory Stompers
Hells Angels '69
Cycle Savages

[trekgeezer]

If you haven't seen it  (I haven't  in years), The Losers  with William Smith and Bernie Hamilton (Captain Dobie on Starsky and Hutch).

This combination war epic and biker flick tells us the secret of the U.S. loss in Viet Nam -- not enough outlaw bikers.

Check it our at WilliamSmith.org

[Scott]

Trek Geezer that must be a hard one to find. A pre-curser to THE A-TEAM? Looks like rough viewing, but if I see a good deal on it I'll pick it up. Thanks

[StatCat]

Cycle Savages is with Bruce Dern from 1969. He looks like he did in the Wild Angels as the Loser. He plays a trashy biker leader who gets p**sed off at a guy because he keeps drawing pictures of his gang and then the story just sort of randomly goes off from there. The music isn't Iron Butterfly- think you might be thinking of the Savage Seven which I think has music by them and cream. Never seen it but just heard about it before.

Got to search pathmark now for this dvd...

Hells Angels '69 pops up often on the speed channel Scott- you're bound to find it on there. It was on a bunch of times this summer.

[Yaddo42]

I second "The Losers" with William Smith and Adam Roarke, one of the few biker movies I really enjoy and would consider owning, I remember mentioning it in a thread once. I guess someone decided to make a movie based on the PR stunt when some of the Angels volunteered their "services" to the president and the military to be their own self-contained para-military unit and fight in Vietnam.  Worth watching for the oodles of mindless violence, and to guess how many times the footage of the ton and a half truck (or was there more than one) being shelled while driving down a jungle road got recycled in other films and TV shows.

When Speed Channel was still Speedvision and they showed "Lost Drive-In" (hosted by the great Bruce Dern) several of the biker films mentioned in this thread used to turn up. They only seem to show "Hells Angels '69" and sometimes "Cannonball" (not even a biker film) or "Quadrophenia" now, usually during that "Autorotica" show.