Hell's Angels on Wheels

1967

1h 35m

Horror

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29%

7 Reviews

Tomatometer

38%

2,500+ Ratings

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A gas-station attendant (Jack Nicholson) joins a motorcycle gang and moves in on the leader's (Adam Roarke) girlfriend (Sabrina Scharf).

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Biker B

Great old school biker flick!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/04/23

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Audience Member

Do you like prolonged sequences of people casually riding their bikes? Or poorly directed fist fights? Or hippy partying? I hope you do, 'cause in "Hells Angels On Wheels" you're going to get all that on identical repeat a gazillion times. Was there even a script to this or were they making it up as they went along? Literally nothing worth mentioning happens, except that some scenes are out of focus and that there is a character with a prominent swastika tattoo that simply never gets addressed.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Audience Member

Entertainment trashy guilty pleasure.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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kevin w

Hedonism is its own reward, n'est pas? Jack Nicholson stars in this confused morality tale as a poor working schlump who at first sees freedom riding with a band of roving free thinkers until he discovers them for immature baby men. After a few fights with those guys and trysts with their easy women he begins to long for his days of starchy indentured servitude: "those were the days!" And so while purportedly relishing the lusty lifestyles of these roving bands of misfits the film also kind of downs them as spoiled babies waiting for a time-out in the local hoosegow. Lounging against sunny California coastal towns, some on the life on the road scenes shown are nonetheless something epic.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

As has been noted, the cinematography and direction were good and fluid enough to hold the choppy script together. The dialogue was pretty genuine, so long as you allow for the melodrama kind of stuff of those days. It had Jack Nicholson as well as that guy from the Hell's Angels in it! Some nice performances and believable love triangle stuff. But for a 13 year old kid on his first date with his badass moll this was like the other side of life. This was the real stuff. No authority, hot babes, motorcycles and smokes rolled up in the sleeve kind of stuff. No wonder juvenile delinquency spiked in the 60's (And it was fun). I say all this to underline the importance of this little film, which, aside from ER was the most influential of the period motorcycle genre. Anyway, have fun and watch it with your favorite badass main squeeze, cold beer and a Marlboro.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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delysid d

the hells angels are bad ASSES!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/18

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Richard Rush

Director

Adam Roarke

Buddy

Jack Nicholson

Poet

Sabrina Scharf

Shill

Jana Taylor

Abigale

John Garwood

Jocko

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Rated: 2.5/4

Apr 2, 2005

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Michael Szymanski

International Press Academy

Rated: 1/5

Sep 23, 2005

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 3/5

Jul 28, 2005

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Best feature was the photography by Laszlo Kovacs.

Rated: C

Dec 13, 2004

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Thomas Delapa

Boulder Weekly

Rated: 2/5

Jul 30, 2004

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality & Practice

Rated: 1/5

Mar 26, 2004

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Synopsis

A gas-station attendant (Jack Nicholson) joins a motorcycle gang and moves in on the leader's (Adam Roarke) girlfriend (Sabrina Scharf).

Director: Richard Rush
Screenwriter: R. Wright Campbell
Production Co: Fanfare Films
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 26, 2020
Runtime: 1h 35m

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