Review of The Wild Angels (1966) by Alex A — 25 Sep 2007
Chosen 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).
This review of The Wild Angels (1966) was written by Alex A on 25 Sep 2007.
The Wild Angels has generally received mixed reviews.
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