The Wild Angels (1966)
Directed by Roger Corman
A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.
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The filmmakers are progressives, but King's oratory could be as much a critique of the "nanny state" feared by right-wingers as a shout-out to the forever-young rebels symbolized by the Peter Fonda quote from Roger Corman's 1966 biker picture, "The Wild Angels," that bookends the film: "We wanna be free...
But these sins are forgivable in a film that has as its mantra Peter Fonda’s iconic speech in the 1966 Roger Corman motorcycle movie “The Wild Angels” : “We wanna get loaded!
The dialogue is relentlessly fancy without being witty, and the specious moralizing of the plot looks like it was tacked on to appease square adults; the real narrative force behind this movie is nihilist camp, as in Roger Corman's 1966 The Wild Angels but without the same degree of filmmaking skill.