Let's All Go To The Movies:
The Motorcycle Mamas Edition
These ladies require but one thing between their legs... the purr of chrome and steel.
Motorcycle Mamas are the stuff of legend, and the topic of today's Let's All Go To The Movies.
So strap your leather on and grab a helmet... these sisters take hitting the road to all sorts of new and dangerous levels.
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She-Devils On Wheels
"By far the most exciting picture of its type ever filmed - The National Insider"
"Soft? Hell! Guts as hard as the steel of their 'hogs!'"
"Riding their men as viciously as they ride their motorcycles."
"In blinding color!"
"See! The authentic initiation ritual never before dared on film."
"See! Man-eaters on motorcycles, feared by the men they use as lovers."
"See! Female hellcats ruling their men with tire-irons as their instruments of passion."
(Tire-irons as their instruments of passion? I hope someone brought plenty of lube!)
(Actual female motorcycle club members were cast for the film. They were from the Iron Cross motorcycle club's Cut-Throats Division.)
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"The roughest ride in town!"
"A mean set of wheels and a chick to match with an itch for action that not many men can scratch!"
(An itch not many men can scratch? Sounds like a trip to the Red Door Clinic to me.)
(Jocelyn Lane appeared opposite Elvis Presley in Tickle Me and was married to Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. They divorced in 1985 and she was awarded a one million dollar settlement which she said was not worthy of a princess.)
"Too young... too tough... too itching for actions to look for it..."
"She'll make it where she is!"
(So... like Mary Tyler Moore? She's gonna make it after all?)
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"Come and get it if you're man enough!"
"They're hog straddling female animals on the prowl!"
(Here's Jeremy Slate again - see: Hell's Belles, above. If you know your soaps, you'll know him from his long stint on One Life To Live. He also starred in True Grit with Glen Campbell, for whom he, Slate, wrote a song which Campbell then recorded!)
(Also on board? Patty McCormack, of The Bad Seed fame.)
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"Hot, hard and mean..."
Too tough for any man!
"They'll beat 'em, treat 'em and eat 'em alive!"
(This film centers on a gang of female bikers taking on a Manson family-style cult. It was filmed at a ranch where the actual Manson family had lived for a time and former members of the cult appear in the film as extras!)
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"They live hard... they love hard..."
"Chopper outlaws riding their hot throbbing machines to a brutal climax of violence!"
"Their battle cry: Kill the pigs!"
(This film was the first feature from New World Pictures. It cost $125 K to make and brought in $700 K. B-movie king, Roger Corman put up half the money to get it made.)
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Angels Hard As They Come
"Big men with throbbing machines and the girls who take them on."
They ripped off his mama... so he tore chopper city apart!"
"An eye for an eye... a piece for a piece."
(Produced and co-written by Jonathan Demme (Silence Of The Lambs, Philadelphia, Melvin And Howard), this is a motorcycle version of Rashomon and contains an early performance by future Academy Award nominee, Gary Busey.)
(The cast is made up of UCLA film students. Advised by a former member of the Hells Angels, It was written in three weekends and shot in three weeks. Financed by Roger Corman - who actually had a hand in most of the films featured in today's post - it was shot using Francis Ford Coppola's camera truck and technician.)
Mad dogs from hell!
Hunting down their prey with a quarter-ton of hot steel between their legs!
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Bury Me An Angel
"I'm gonna get my gun and..."
"She took on the whole gang!
"A howling hellcat humping a hot steel hog on a roaring rampage of revenge."
(This was directed by Barbara Peeters, who served as script supervisor on Angels Die Hard. She was the first woman to direct a biker film. The film was acquired and distributed by Roger Corman's New World Pictures.)
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The Hellcats
"Leather on the outside... all woman on the inside!"
(Another starring turn for Ross Hagen, who also appeared in Angels' Wild Women and The Mini Skirt Mob. It was later skewered on an episode of Mystery Science 3000.)
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"The cycles from hell are coming!"
"The Big Mamas battle wild jockeys, thrill killers called Hells Chosen Few."
"Big Mamas vs. Outlaws."
"She taught them a new game on top of a pool table."
(That poor green felt was never the same!)
"Warning! A shocking new picture filmed in the streets where it actually happened with the real Devil's Henchmen, Coffin Cheaters, East L.A. Riders, Tikis, Vikings, Hell's Chosen Few, Rebels, Monks, The Road Agents, and allied motorcycle gangs, screaming cycles, and wild women. Death on a state-wide run... 100's of riders!"
(Something tells me that character development was not high on the list while making this little epic.)
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Sinner's Blood
"The gut-ripping truth about a girl named Penny..."
"And a kill-for-kicks cycle gang who in one single shocking day, set the whole town ablaze with terror!"
"Can any woman see the climax without feeling the knife?"
"You're not so sexy now!"
"Preacher, go to hell!"
(I like a girl who knows what she wants out of life and knows where she's going!)
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Kitten on wheels with her bike... her boots and bikini!
"Out for kicks... in for trouble! She's going to join the..."
(This film is notable for the introduction of the character of 'Billy Jack'. Tom Laughlin had been trying to get a film about the discrimination of Native Americans made for years, without success. Given the opportunity, he slipped the character into this film, based on a true story from 1964 when members of the Hells Angels were arrested for raping two teenage girls. The film proved popular enough to launch Laughlin's successful Billy Jack franchise.)
(The film also features yet another appearance by Jeremy Slate from Hell's Belles and The Mini Skirt Mob. Plus a special appearance by Jane Russell. Yes! That Jane Russell!)
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(Marianne Faithfull is an a amazingly gifted artist. This was filmed during her initial heyday, when she was renowned for not only her beauty and folk pop hits, but also her appearances in the tabloids due to her relationship with Mick Jagger. After a drug bust at a mansion The Rolling Stones were renting, where she greeted the cops, stoned, wearing only a fur rug, the public turned on her. She fell on hard times, turning to heroin for comfort. But true talent wins out. Her brilliant 1979 album, Broken English would relaunch her recording career, one which continues to this day.)
(Did they have Monostat-1 back then?)
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The Girls From Thunder Strip
"Meet the girls... three moonshing, bootlegging, hellraising sisters who turned the bluegrass red with blood!"
"Dynamite action... souped up cars, illegal whiskey, wild women and souped up thrills."
"Lil: she can out drive, out shoot and whip any man!"
"Big Red: She turns men on... then cuts them down!"
"Jesse: Baby sister, a hot blooded alley cat!"
(Notable for appearances by disc jockey Casey Kasem and Bing Crosby's troubled youngest son, Lindsay.)
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Switchblade Sisters
"From the director of Coffey and Foxy Brown."
"So easy to kill, so hard to love."
(While I'm not sure if there is a motorcycle in the entire film, I wanted to include this one in today's post.)
(This is a favorite of director Quentin Tarantino, who relicensed and rereleased it in 1996. It has a lofty literary pedigree. According to the director, Jack Hill, the film is broadly influenced by William Shakespeare's Othello, with one scene being inspired by Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.)
"Mothers... lock up your sons. The Switchblade Sisters are coming!
"Lace, Maggie, Patch, Donut, Bunny... the wildest girl gang that ever blasted the streets!)
Sisters In Leather
"No man (or woman) was safe from these love hungry hell-cats!"
(This stars Pat Barrington, who is notable for a number of things. First, she worked with famed cult directors Ed Wood Jr. and Russ Meyer. Secondly, she lived with jazz musician/serial killer Melvin Rees; the two met while she was performing as a stripper under the name Vivian Storm. Her filmography reads like a cult film fan's dream.)
"Some machines are more than most men can handle!"
(Robert Fuller would go on to find fame as Dr. Kelly Brackett in the popular 1970's medical/action drama Emergency!)
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And that's all for now.
Tune in next week...
Same time, same channel.
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2 comments:
LOL. Are they *sure* they meant the girls when they used "HARD" in the titles???
Oh, I love women on motorcycles. I love men riding motorcycles more, but women are soooo cool!
Marianne Faithfull was sooo pretty!
And I have no idea how anybody could ride a motorcycle wearing a mini skirt. Or maybe that's what the whole thing is about, right?
XOXO
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