The Wild Angels

Peter Fonda stars as the leader of a leatherclad biker gang. When one of the cyclists gets injured and hospitalized, the gang kidnap him from the hospital and carry him back to their turf. But he dies on the way, so they stage a funeral service for him in the local church, binding the minister and carrying on a drunken, drugged-out orgy.

It was a Life magazine photograph that gave me the idea for The Wild Angels. The photo, in a January 1966 issue, showed a group of Hell’s Angels on their choppers going to the funeral of one of their members. […] I saw the Hell’s Angels riding free as a modern-day cowboy. The chopper was his horse. The locales would be the wide-open spaces – the beach, the desert, and the mountains.

Without Roger Corman’s biker movie, there would be no Easy Rider, no Five Easy Pieces, no Midnight Cowboy. It’s hard to tell whether the director intended a cheesy exploitation film crammed with sex and violence or a disenchanted, melancholy meditation on the inevitable failure of the American rebel ideal. Either way the film, taking up where Marlon Brando left off in The Wild One, is extraordinary.
Kim Newman, Empire Magazine

PRODUCTION:
Amazon MGM Studios - Scott Grossman,
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PRODUCTION AT THE TIME OF FILMING: 
​American International Pictures

LAB:
Roundabout

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