Hells Angels on Wheels

1967 "The shattering true story of the Hell's Angels of Northern California! The violence...The hate...The way-out parties...Exactly as it happens!"
5.2| 1h35m| en
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At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang “Hell’s Angels” finally accepts him. But he’s shocked when he learns how brutal they are – not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble when the leader’s girlfriend falls in love with him – and he welcomes her approaches.

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Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.
KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
adonis98-743-186503 At first, gas station attendant Poet is happy when the Hell's Angels gang finally accepts him. But he's shocked when he learns just how brutal they are. Jack Nicholson stars in this 60's B-Movie Crime Drama with the end result being worse than the most films of his career just like 'The Terror' Hells Angels on Wheels is slow, dumb and above all has one of the worst endings i have ever seen it cuts so sudden and stupid that even people who like the film will be confused and disappointed. (0/10)
Leofwine_draca HELL'S ANGELS ON WHEELS is an enjoyable addition to the run of biker flicks that filmed cinema screens in the late 1960s. I liked it better than the arty, overrated EASY RIDER, and it's another one to feature Jack Nicholson, this time in the leading role. Nicholson has a kind of effortless, likable charm in this film - he's all smiles and fun - which makes the film rather a fun one to watch for fans of the actor.The narrative format is to follow the misadventures of a biker gang as they get into the usual scrapes involved with hard living and hard loving: the expected bar-room brawls, run-ins with the law, fights with rival gangs, stunts, and plenty of padded moments that just show the gang riding around some picturesque Californian locations.It's hardly the stuff of greatness, but the '60s-style direction is fun and there's a surfeit amount of action which makes it an easy watch. There's not really much meat to the story when it comes down to it, other than love triangle that's required to propel the central storyline along, but the action bits are well handled, the music is cool, and Nicholson gives it his all.
sparker-26 For what this film is, it's great. No better 'genre' film exists. One of the reasons is that Sonny Barger himself, founder and still President of the Hell's Angels, is in the film's opening scene, kicking over his bike and proceeding to run over a flower bed in a city park! That's how bad these guys are! Barger is in the film throughout, and the producers probably had to pay Sonny and his 'club members' a pretty penny in order to use them and their official 'colors' (the H.A. logo, etc). Sonny also "starred" in "Hells Angel's '69", about an Angel's attempt to rip-off a Vegas casino, and appeared in almost any film where the "Angel's" name and logo were needed. Barger is still alive and runs and owns 'Sonny Barger Harley-Davidson' in Oakland, Ca, where the Hell's Angeles were born. He's probably been in in prison for 35 of the last 40 years. Barger is the nice fellow who got the'club' into drugs, gun-running and other nefarious money-making schemes, though for the most part ALL the Angels were true scum of the earth. Notice there are no apparent people of color in the movie, though Barger himself is Hispanic. "HA" has been a white-supremacist group since it began, arguments claiming otherwise notwithstanding. They are still associated with the "Aryan Brotherhood" in California prisons. Using "real" Angels means we get to not only see them in their usual habitat (acting stupid, drunk, stoned and, mostly, violent) but we also get to see their bikes, true relics of another age, some of which are probably in the Smithsonian, or at least Harley museums around the world. I was amazed that none of the bikes appeared to be of the extreme "chopper" variety with extended front forks allowing the rider to hang from the "monkey bars". As much as corporate Harley-Davidson said they officially hated these 'clubs', they took care of Sonny throughout the years. This film was made in San Francisco during the infamous "Summer of Love", 1967. As the other poster mentioned, Nicholson and Roarke also star in "Psych-Out!", with Nicholson as an LSD dealer whom the Feds are hot to catch.
angelsunchained This has to rate as the third best biker film of the 1960s behind Easy Rider and The Wild Angels. As bad as the script is, it's clear that Jack Nicholson as Poet, an angry gas-pump jockey who joins the Hell's Angels is a star in the making.The opening scene alone is worth seeing for any biker-film buff, as over 1,000 Hell's Angels on blazing choppers led by their leader Ralph "Sonny" Barger come rumbling down the California highway.With a supporting cast of Adam Rourke(of Hell's Belles fame) & Easy Riders' Sabrina Scharf, along with "B" movie legend Jack Starrett as a tough-talking state trooper,the movie captures the "wild" days of the 1960s Hells Angels Motorcycle gang. The movie even has a "surprise" ending. With bikers, bikes, booze, and brawls, who could ask for anything else in a better than average "B" film?