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Overview

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Director:
Roger Corman
Writer:
Charles B. Griffith (writer)
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Release Date:
20 July 1966 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Action more
Tagline:
Their credo is violence...Their God is hate...and they call themselves 'The Wild Angels' more
Plot:
Peter Fonda plays 'Heavenly Blues', the leader of Hell's Angels chapter from Venice, California while Bruce Dern plays 'Loser'... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Holiday Preview: A Repertory Calendar
 (From IFC. 3 November 2009, 1:01 PM, PST)

Do You Wanna Dance? Allan Arkush Remembers Rock 'N Roll High School
 (From The Hollywood Interview. 10 May 2009, 2:00 PM, PDT)

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Peter Fonda ... Heavenly Blues

Nancy Sinatra ... Mike aka Monkey
Bruce Dern ... Joe Kearns aka Loser

Diane Ladd ... Gaysh
Buck Taylor ... Dear John
Norman Alden ... Medic

Michael J. Pollard ... Pigmy
Lou Procopio ... Joint
Joan Shawlee ... Momma Monahan
Marc Cavell ... Frankenstein
Coby Denton ... Bull Puckey
Frank Maxwell ... Preacher
Gayle Hunnicutt ... Suzie
Gina Grant
Art Baker ... Thomas - Mortician
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
All the Fallen Angels (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for drug-related material.
Runtime:
Germany:86 min | USA:93 min | USA:87 min (TCM print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Pathécolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:(Banned) (uncut) (1973) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1990) | Finland:K-18 (heavily cut) (1973) | Finland:K-18 (uncut) (1992) | Iceland:16 | Australia:M | West Germany:18 (f) | Netherlands:12 (2008) | UK:15 (video) (2008) (uncut) | UK:18 (video) (1993) (uncut) | UK:X (theatrical release) (1972) (cut) | Canada:R (Canadian Home Video rating) | Norway:18 (1971) | Sweden:15 | USA:R

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Roger Corman actually used several members of the real Hell's Angels as extras. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: A nurse that is assaulted by a biker wearing wraparound sunglasses is asked to identify him by looking through a book of mugshots. She finds his mugshot and he's wearing the same wraparounds in the photo. No police department would ever allow someone to wear such a disguise while being photographed. more
Quotes:
Medic: [said jokingly to girl dancing] Hey, don't get none of that on me! more
Soundtrack:
The Loser's Burial more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful.
Free to ride our machines!, 28 November 2003
Author: Shoesforindustry from Here

Not really a-happenin' here. By this point Corman wasn't having his characters pontificate in neverending speeches to deliver the big message, but having essentially amoral characters isin't exactly the solution to his problem. The drawn out tedium raises its head in wobbly shot beer guzzling sequences, Harlys flying down the road, and the like. A good story could be had of it all, but Fonda's Blues displays all sorts of sympathies without showing any real motivation, before settling on resignation at the end. Another problem, initially, is figuring out which theoretical main character is being addressed - "Blues" and "Loser" sound an awful lot alike. It would have made a good riff on MST, along with Fonda's classic "We wanna be free" speech, which most likely WILL stick with you if nothing else does. Except maybe Dern's superbly anti-climatic performance: on screen for about 15 minutes before being shot by the fuzz, he spends most of the movie as a corpse his buddies lug around. Garnish with a case of Pabst and some primo weed, ALRIGHT!

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