Easy Rider wasn't the first biker film, and Easy Rider (1969) wasn't the first biker film for Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. It was though the most famous of the sixties. I think of Easy Rider more of a pot-smok'n-hippy-road-picture. The Wild Angels was a movie staring Fonda and produced by famous movie mogul Roger Corman. American International also made biker flicks. Hopper did a biker movie prior to Easy Rider called The Glory Stompers. They were'nt my favorite genre, but I watched more than my share of them in the late sixties and early seventies, as part of double and triple features at The *Rebel Drive-In in Attalla, AL. Quentin Tarantino has Hell Ride in the works. Knowing Tarantino- it's going to be a tribute to the old B-movies of the 60's...only gorier. What is curious to me, with all the bikers out there, why Hollywood hasn't been churning out biker films. The only one I've seen recently is Ghost Rider with Nicholas Cage (Fonda showed up in this one too). I've got a feeling that the up and coming Tarantino's Hell Ride might stir up another string of glorified B-movie biker flicks from Hollywood.*The Rebel Drive-In opened August 7, 1964 and closed in October 1985. Was originally the Grove Drive-In which opened in 1949.
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My favorite was BORN LOSER (the original BILLY JACK). It was way cool and really hokey. That only added to the fun of the movie. You got this cool chick on a Honda 125 outrunning Biker Dudes on big honkin' Harley's...Don't you know the Honda people loved this flick?
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