Police sirens are heard approaching in the background. The Angels move through the town in a funeral procession to the Sequoia Grove Cemetery, where the townspeople show up outside the gate and provoke a brawl between the Angels and the townspeople. Blues then tells his gang that it is time to bury Loser. Blues has sex with Momma, while Mike, Blues' girlfriend, is kissed by another biker until Blues confronts them and slaps her. Gaysh, the Loser's girlfriend, is drugged and raped by several members of the gang. They beat and tie up the preacher and put him into the casket. They remove Loser from his coffin, they sit him up as a guest of honor and place a joint in his mouth. The funeral preacher arrives at the church and starts the funeral sermon, a eulogy consisting entirely of funeral oratory cliches which angers Blues and he interrupts the preacher and the Angels decide to have a party in the church, with alcohol, dancing and reckless destruction of the church fixtures. The Angels arrive at the church and carry in Loser's casket which is draped with a Nazi flag. The Angels forge a death certificate for Loser and arrange for a church funeral in Sequoia Grove, Loser's rural hometown. The Angels take Loser to a biker bar and safe house run by 'Momma', a friend of the gang, but without proper medical care, Loser dies. The nurse, having seen Blues, identifies him to the police. Blues pulls the Angel away, forcing him to stop. A nurse hears a noise and comes into the hospital room. He steals a police motorcycle but eventually one of the officers shoots Loser in the back, putting him in the hospital.īlues leads a small group of Angels to sneak Loser out of the hospital. The police arrive and the Angels escape but Loser gets separated from the others and is left behind. The two groups brawl, with the Angels apparently winning.
One of the Angels finds a brake pedal, which he says is a piece of Loser's motorcycle, in a garage that is the hang-out of a Mexican group. Loser has his motorcycle stolen, and in between sprees of sex, drugs, rock and roll, booze, loud revving Harley chopper motorcycle engines, bongo drums and fights, the Angels ride out to Mecca, California in the desert to look for the motorcycle.
Loser (or "the Loser") is his best friend. Heavenly Blues is the leader of the Angels motorcycle gang from San Pedro, California. In 1967 AIP followed this film with Devil's Angels, The Glory Stompers with Dennis Hopper, and The Born Losers. Members of the Coffin Cheaters motorcycle club also appeared. Pollard and Gayle Hunnicutt and, according to literature promoting the film, members of the Hells Angels from Venice, California. Small supporting roles are played by Michael J. The Wild Angels, released by American International Pictures (AIP), stars Fonda as the fictitious Hells Angels San Pedro, California chapter president "Heavenly Blues" (or "Blues"), Nancy Sinatra as his girlfriend "Mike", Bruce Dern as doomed fellow outlaw "the Loser", and Dern's then real-life wife Diane Ladd as the Loser's on-screen wife, "Gaysh". It inspired the biker film genre that continued into the early 1970s. Made on location in Southern California, The Wild Angels was the first film to associate actor Peter Fonda with Harley-Davidson motorcycles and 1960s counterculture. In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".The Wild Angels is a 1966 American independent outlaw biker film produced and directed by Roger Corman.
It received two Academy Awards nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson). Critics have praised the performances, directing, writing, soundtrack, and visuals. Released by Columbia Pictures on July 14, 1969, Easy Rider earned $60 million worldwide from a modest filming budget of $400,000. Real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana and other substances. A landmark counterculture film, and a "touchstone for a generation" that "captured the national imagination," Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions towards adolescents in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle.
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