Hells Angels on Wheels

Hells Angels on Wheels


Starring:Adam Roarke, Jack Nicholson, Sabrina Scharf, Jana Taylor, Richard Anders, John Garwood, I.J. Jefferson, James Oliver, Jack Starrett, Bruno VeSota, Bob Kelljan, Kathryn Harrow, John 'Bud' Cardos, Tex Hall, Gary Littlejohn, Sonny Barger, C. Dumas, Paul Wilmoth, Dirty Denny, Tex Tuttle
Director: Richard Rush
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
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
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).
Hells Angels on Wheels
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Hells Angels on Wheels
  • Casual Biker Movie
  • Great entertainment
  • One of the Best Biker Flics
  • Funny old flick
 Hells Angels on Wheels
Starring: Adam Roarke , Jack Nicholson , Sabrina Scharf , Jana Taylor , and Richard Anders
Director: Richard Rush
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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  5. The Wild Angels/Hell's Belles

ASIN: B0000E69GN
Release Date: 2003-12-30

Amazon.com

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

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).

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Hells Angels on Wheels.......2007-06-08

A great movie, really fun and captures the feeling of the time

3 out of 5 stars Casual Biker Movie.......2007-01-15

Nicolson could have been a real Angel. A classic for your library. Most enjoyable.

4 out of 5 stars Great entertainment.......2006-12-14

This is the best Biker movie I have seen so far. Once again, Jack proves he can do it all. Pretty raw for a sixties movie, and they didn't do much to squash the perception of the Outlaw Biker. I am a Biker, and at times can be pretty critical of Biker movies, but this was a very entertaining flick.

4 out of 5 stars One of the Best Biker Flics.......2006-03-16

Hells Angels on Wheels is, by far, one of the best examples of a sixties biker movie.
Right from the opening credits where we see various California Angels getting on their bikes and heading off through the streets of San Francisco, to the big meeting up of Sonny Barger's Oakland crew and our own film gang, headed up by Adam Rourke.
Jack Nicholson, as Poet, is the movie's standout performance, and, by all accounts, Jack blended in with the real Angels on the set to the point of being mistaken for one.
The film does fall apart at the end, almost as if, after 90 minutes of action and continuity, the director just lost interest and wanted to wind it up as fast as possible.
The bikes in this one are heavily featured and there are many examples of mid sixties choppers lovingly photographed by the great Leslie (Laslo) Kovacs. You can see the seed of many Easy Rider (also photographed by Kovacs) shots in Kovacs work on this film.
This movie is probably the closest portrayal of the California Hells Angels ever made- even Sonny Barger doesn't completely hate it.

4 out of 5 stars Funny old flick.......2006-03-10

You know I never thought the Hells Angels were as funny as they are in this flick. Most of the extras were actual Hells Angels. You can actually see Sonny Barger in a couple of the shots. This movie will let you see what the original Choppers were like
Hells Angels on Wheels [Region 2]
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Hells Angels on Wheels
  • Casual Biker Movie
  • Great entertainment
  • One of the Best Biker Flics
  • Funny old flick
 Hells Angels on Wheels [Region 2]
Starring: Adam Roarke , Jack Nicholson , Sabrina Scharf , Jana Taylor , and Richard Anders
Director: Richard Rush
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Nicholson, JackNicholson, Jack | ( N ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video
Scharf, SabrinaScharf, Sabrina | ( S ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video
Starrett, JackStarrett, Jack | ( S ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video
Rush, RichardRush, Richard | ( R ) | Directors | Stores | DVD | Video
( H )( H ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video
Similar Items:
  1. Hell's Angel 69
  2. The Wild One
  3. Angels Hard as They Come
  4. In Search of History - Hell's Angels (History Channel)
  5. The Wild Angels/Hell's Belles

ASIN: B000056N5S

Amazon.com

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:

5 out of 5 stars Hells Angels on Wheels.......2007-06-08

A great movie, really fun and captures the feeling of the time

3 out of 5 stars Casual Biker Movie.......2007-01-15

Nicolson could have been a real Angel. A classic for your library. Most enjoyable.

4 out of 5 stars Great entertainment.......2006-12-14

This is the best Biker movie I have seen so far. Once again, Jack proves he can do it all. Pretty raw for a sixties movie, and they didn't do much to squash the perception of the Outlaw Biker. I am a Biker, and at times can be pretty critical of Biker movies, but this was a very entertaining flick.

4 out of 5 stars One of the Best Biker Flics.......2006-03-16

Hells Angels on Wheels is, by far, one of the best examples of a sixties biker movie.
Right from the opening credits where we see various California Angels getting on their bikes and heading off through the streets of San Francisco, to the big meeting up of Sonny Barger's Oakland crew and our own film gang, headed up by Adam Rourke.
Jack Nicholson, as Poet, is the movie's standout performance, and, by all accounts, Jack blended in with the real Angels on the set to the point of being mistaken for one.
The film does fall apart at the end, almost as if, after 90 minutes of action and continuity, the director just lost interest and wanted to wind it up as fast as possible.
The bikes in this one are heavily featured and there are many examples of mid sixties choppers lovingly photographed by the great Leslie (Laslo) Kovacs. You can see the seed of many Easy Rider (also photographed by Kovacs) shots in Kovacs work on this film.
This movie is probably the closest portrayal of the California Hells Angels ever made- even Sonny Barger doesn't completely hate it.

4 out of 5 stars Funny old flick.......2006-03-10

You know I never thought the Hells Angels were as funny as they are in this flick. Most of the extras were actual Hells Angels. You can actually see Sonny Barger in a couple of the shots. This movie will let you see what the original Choppers were like
Hells Angels on Wheels [Region 2]
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Hells Angels on Wheels
  • Casual Biker Movie
  • Great entertainment
  • One of the Best Biker Flics
  • Funny old flick
 Hells Angels on Wheels [Region 2]
Starring: Adam Roarke , Jack Nicholson , Sabrina Scharf , Jana Taylor , and Richard Anders
Director: Richard Rush
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

ThrillersThrillers | Mystery & Suspense | Genres | DVD | Video
Nicholson, JackNicholson, Jack | ( N ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video
Scharf, SabrinaScharf, Sabrina | ( S ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video
Starrett, JackStarrett, Jack | ( S ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video
Rush, RichardRush, Richard | ( R ) | Directors | Stores | DVD | Video
( H )( H ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video
Similar Items:
  1. Hell's Angel 69
  2. The Wild One
  3. Angels Hard as They Come
  4. In Search of History - Hell's Angels (History Channel)
  5. The Wild Angels/Hell's Belles

ASIN: B00009PAYC

Amazon.com

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:

5 out of 5 stars Hells Angels on Wheels.......2007-06-08

A great movie, really fun and captures the feeling of the time

3 out of 5 stars Casual Biker Movie.......2007-01-15

Nicolson could have been a real Angel. A classic for your library. Most enjoyable.

4 out of 5 stars Great entertainment.......2006-12-14

This is the best Biker movie I have seen so far. Once again, Jack proves he can do it all. Pretty raw for a sixties movie, and they didn't do much to squash the perception of the Outlaw Biker. I am a Biker, and at times can be pretty critical of Biker movies, but this was a very entertaining flick.

4 out of 5 stars One of the Best Biker Flics.......2006-03-16

Hells Angels on Wheels is, by far, one of the best examples of a sixties biker movie.
Right from the opening credits where we see various California Angels getting on their bikes and heading off through the streets of San Francisco, to the big meeting up of Sonny Barger's Oakland crew and our own film gang, headed up by Adam Rourke.
Jack Nicholson, as Poet, is the movie's standout performance, and, by all accounts, Jack blended in with the real Angels on the set to the point of being mistaken for one.
The film does fall apart at the end, almost as if, after 90 minutes of action and continuity, the director just lost interest and wanted to wind it up as fast as possible.
The bikes in this one are heavily featured and there are many examples of mid sixties choppers lovingly photographed by the great Leslie (Laslo) Kovacs. You can see the seed of many Easy Rider (also photographed by Kovacs) shots in Kovacs work on this film.
This movie is probably the closest portrayal of the California Hells Angels ever made- even Sonny Barger doesn't completely hate it.

4 out of 5 stars Funny old flick.......2006-03-10

You know I never thought the Hells Angels were as funny as they are in this flick. Most of the extras were actual Hells Angels. You can actually see Sonny Barger in a couple of the shots. This movie will let you see what the original Choppers were like

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