Hell on Wheels

Starring:Marty Robbins, John Ashley, Gigi Perreau, Robert Dornan, Frank Gerstle, Robert Foulk, Christine Tibbott, Eddie Crandall, William Griffin (VI), Bruce Baldwin, Charles Yoakum, Chris Eland, Cecil Kent, Sam Tarpley, Susan Shreever, John Murray (XXVI), Tom Doyle (II), Jimmie Klein, Marvin Miller, Connie Smith
Director: Will Zens
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Product Type: DVD

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Hell on Wheels
Starring: Rolf Aldag , Lance Armstrong , Santiago Botero , Hagen Boßdorf , and Baden Cooke
Director: Danquart, Pepe
Manufacturer: First Run Features
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ASIN: B000B5XSTE
Release Date: 2005-11-22

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There may never be a better documentary about the Tour de France bicycle race than Hell on Wheels. Directed by German filmmaker Pepe Danquart (who won an Oscar® for best live action short film in 1994), this breathtaking documentary covers all aspects of the 2003 edition of the Tour de France, and it's likely to remain the definitive record of the event from an immediate you-are-there perspective. Outstanding cinematography, award-winning editing, and the extreme challenge of the Tour make this a truly unforgettable film, full of real-life drama and fascinating competitors who bring a deeply human dimension to cycling's annual extravaganza. This was the year that American cycling legend Lance Armstrong won his fifth consecutive Tour de France victory, but Danquart's film wisely avoids overemphasis on Armstrong's dominance, focusing instead on German teammates Eric Zabel and Rolf Aldag, whose 11-year history as Tour de France roommates lends the film a more personal quality that gets you right inside the Tour's physical and psychological endurance test. The July 2003 event marked the Tour's centenary celebration, and French scholar Serge Laget provides valuable perspective on the race's cultural importance in France, with vintage film clips to illustrate how the grueling 2,500-kilometer Tour has evolved--and stayed the same--throughout its 100-year history. Highlights are abundant (including Armstrong's nearly devastating crash late in the race), but Hell on Wheels goes beyond basic sports reportage to achieve the dramatic impact of a feature film. Danquart strikes a satisfying balance between beautiful travelogue footage of the French countryside (including the Tour's scenic stages in the Pyrenees mountains) and the veteran's perspective of Zabel, whose honest assessment of his own cycling abilities makes you realize that even great cyclists view the Tour with awe, fear, and inspiring courage. In capturing the beauty, pain, and glory of cycling's most daunting competition, Hell on Wheels caters to a specific audience while retaining its universal appeal as a colorful and exhilarating film that anyone can enjoy. --Jeff Shannon

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What defines greatness? Who wins life's toughest contests? How much of a role do mental and psychological challenges play amid physical ones? "What It Takes" seeks to answer these questions and others. The documentary profiles four elite Ironman triathletes - three Canadians and one Australian who together have won 6 world championships and dozens of major races - and follows behind the scenes for a year as they quest for the 2005 world championship in Kona, Hawaii. Running just over 98 minutes, the movie includes footage of the athletes training, racing, and resting, and also opening up in extensive interviews to share their thoughts and feelings. Viewers learn much about the sport of triathlon and the duel for athletic supremacy, but also about the very human issues which confront the four athletes in an up-and-down, unpredictable year.

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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

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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).

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Hell on Wheels
Starring: Marty Robbins , John Ashley , Gigi Perreau , Robert Dornan , and Frank Gerstle
Director: Will Zens
Manufacturer: Rhino Theatrical
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ASIN: B00004YA6O
Release Date: 2000-11-07

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Wild Ones On Wheels & Savages From Hell

Manufacturer: RetroFLICKS
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ASIN: B000IHVFN6

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Wild Ones On Wheels (1962) - After serving many years in the state pen, Duke Walker (Mason) is getting out. He'll be heading to a little truck stop and diner in the southern California desert, where his sweetheart Hazel (York) is waiting for him. Not far from there lies his reward for biding his time: $250,000 in cash, lying safe in its hiding place amongst the rocks and cactus. Duke can almost taste the good life... but he's not the only one. It seems he may have been a bit too chatty in prison, and now a thug named King Tut (Tontini) and his gang are very interested to learn where Duke has planted all that cabbage. With stakes this high, things are likely to get very dangerous - and deadly. // Savages From Hell (1968) - All hell breaks loose when an outlaw motorcycle gang descends on a sleepy little Florida town! The son of a migrant worker scores a permanent job at an auto garage, finally making it possible for his family to settle down and have a nice home. But when he runs afoul of a gang of renegade youth on wheels, the young man sees his family attacked, his father shot, and his little sister kidnapped! Can these Savages From Hell be stopped, before they destroy everything he cares about?

Weapons At War - Hell On Wheels (History Channel)

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