A curious piece with a thin story and a young Jack. It plays like a documentary in the life of the Hell's Angels, with the occasional insight overridden with campy dialogue and situations. To help it along there is the strong visual compositions by Laszlo Kovacs, most notably the wedding when the bikies form a guard to salute the Bride and Groom. Then later on the honeymoon night, the couple are in a motel room making out while the boys are outside fighting their social enemies. Brilliant little things like that which showed promises of good things to come from director Rush and photographer Kovacs.
Review of Hells Angels on Wheels
Hells Angels on Wheels
(1967)
Worth a few giggles when boys are searching their inner-primitive-self!
22 February 2003