
Peter Fonda plays 'Heavenly Blues', the leader of the Angels, a motorcycle gang from San Pedro, California; Bruce Dern plays 'Loser', his best pal. When they both botch their attempt to retrieve Loser's stolen bike, Loser ends up in the hospital. When the Angels bust him out, he dies, and they bury him. Nancy Sinatra plays Mike, Blues' "old lady" and Diane Ladd plays Loser's wife (Dern's real-life wife at the time). The plot is basically a buildup to the last half-hour of the... (Full plot summary below)
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Peter Fonda plays 'Heavenly Blues', the leader of the Angels, a motorcycle gang from San Pedro, California; Bruce Dern plays 'Loser', his best pal. When they both botch their attempt to retrieve Loser's stolen bike, Loser ends up in the hospital. When the Angels bust him out, he dies, and they bury him. Nancy Sinatra plays Mike, Blues' "old lady" and Diane Ladd plays Loser's wife (Dern's real-life wife at the time). The plot is basically a buildup to the last half-hour of the film in which Loser's funeral becomes another wild party.
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| Cleveland PressTony MastroianniThis is the sort of movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat -- ready to leave the theater. |
| The VergeKeith PhippsIn many ways, The Wild Angels was a bellwether of where the decade was headed. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrBeneath the flamboyant sensationalism lies a rather conservative, romantic notion of adolescent bonding. |
| VarietyVariety StaffCorman tackles assignment with realism, taking apart the cult and giving its members an indepth study as he follows a gang headed by Peter Fonda in their defiance of common decencies. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonA weirdly moody, frequently dysfunctional drama whose completely casual depiction of the California underclasses has a raw, realistic tang. |
| Seanax.comSean AxmakerRoger Corman's The Wild Angels took the outlaw culture of the biker movie into nervy, nihilistic territory. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullIt manages to be exploitative, lifeless, and boring at the same time! |
| User Reviewjeremy c1st and BEST of the biker films. Serious climax. Provocative by any standard. And somehow seemingly effortless. |
| User ReviewGunnar LClassic Corman - Sampled by Primal Scream's LOaded. |
| User ReviewAlex AChosen to represent the United States at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, this inaugural entry in the mid-to-late 1960â??s motorcycle movies boom gives us an iconoclastic Peter Fonda (clad in dark sunglasses) doing the whole misunderstood free spirit thing a good three years before EASY RIDER. While the flashy performances (Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, and especially Diane Ladd) and almost cartoonish handling of the Hells Angels could be classified as being enormously sillier and inane when compared to that future innovator of American filmmaking, this low-budget drive-in classic still has a lot of fun to offer in its heavy feedback guitar riffs (courtesy of Davie Allan & The Arrows, the preeminent AIP Motorcycle Movies composers), surprisingly adept widescreen compositions, and winning rhythmic one-liners from scriptwriter Charles B. Griffith (with additional revisions and second unit work by Peter Bogdanovich). |