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Writers:
Larry Billman (story)
Tony Huston (writer)
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Release Date:
May 1969 (USA) more
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Tagline:
HARD RIDERS! Mounted on Burning Steel! ... with only their leathers between THEM and HELL!
Plot:
Motorcycle racer Rommel seeks vengeance against JC, a madman who murdered the sidehacker's fiancee. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Ross Hagen ... Vince Rommel
Diane McBain ... Rita
Michael Pataki ... J.C.
Dick Merrifield ... Luke
Claire Polan ... Paisley
Edward Parrish ... Nero
Michael Graham ... Cooch
Hoke Howell ... Crapout
Diane Tessier ... Debbie

Erik Cord ... Dirty John (as Eric Cord)
Eric Lidberg ... Tork
Ivy Ross ... Mechanic
Joey Tessier ... Billy
Robert Tessier ... Jake
Tony Lorea ... Announcer
Toni Moss ... Lois
Warren Hammack ... Mechanic
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Goldie Hawn ... (unconfirmed)
Ray Tudor
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Directed by
Gus Trikonis 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Larry Billman  story
Tony Huston  writer

Produced by
Jerry Brutsche .... associate producer
Ross Hagen .... producer
Pat Somerset .... associate producer (uncredited)
 
Original Music by
Mike Curb 
Guy Hemric 
Jerry Styner 
 
Cinematography by
Jon Hall 
 
Film Editing by
Pat Somerset 
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jerry Brutsche .... first assistant director
Tony Lorea .... assistant director
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Sidehackers
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Runtime:
82 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Gus Trikonis' wife at the time Goldie Hawn appears as an uncredited extra spectator at the end of the race in the beginning of the film. more

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
five the hard-to-watch movie, 19 May 2005
1/10
Author: Lee Eisenberg (eisenberg.lee@gmail.com) from Portland, Oregon, USA

"Five the Hard Way" (aka "The Sidehackers") doesn't know whether it wants to be a sports movie or a revenge story. Sidehacking is apparently a sport in which a motorcycle is affixed with a side-cart so that a person can hang off and help the rider steer. In the movie, a group of hoodlums tries to get in on the action, but the main sidehacker (Ross Hagen) tells them off. When the girlfriend of the lead hoodlum comes on to him, he tells her off, prompting the hoodlums to murder his girlfriend Rita (Diane McBain). From then on, the movie is all about revenge. About the only redeeming aspect of the whole movie is that Rita is quite hot. The "MST3K" version of this movie makes it watchable.

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