After a bit of eye-gouging and the like, the cops show and try to catch the fun-loving guys. Sure, they have gang fights, rapes, drug use and altercations with the cops, but otherwise they are all relatively clean-cut thugs with swastikas bedecking practically everything! Early in the film, the gang is having a friendly rumble with a Hispanic gang. For 1966, they were a pretty scary and tough bunch-though compared to some of the biker films that followed (such as "Satan's Sadists"), they are a relatively mellow group. Corman must have laughed himself silly with this one!! Bruce Dern, Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra was all members of the Angels-a sort of biker 'club'. Oddly, of all his MANY credits, apparently only one of his films lost money-and, even more oddly, it was one of his best films! Here with "Wild Angels" you have essentially a crap film with some actors who later became famous-and it made a fortune. This film is a wonderful example of how writer/director/producer Roger Corman had a knack out of making cheap films that made lots of money.
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