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4.8/10   785 votes
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Writer:
R. Wright Campbell (screenplay)
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Release Date:
June 1967 (USA) more
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Tagline:
The shattering true story of the Hells Angels of Northern California more
Plot:
At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang "Hell's Angels" finally accepts him... more | add synopsis
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DVD: Review: Getting Straight
 (From The AV Club. 3 February 2009, 10:00 PM, PST)

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Sonny Barger's Recommendation As The Most Accurate Hell's Angels Movie. more (22 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Adam Roarke ... Buddy

Jack Nicholson ... Poet
Sabrina Scharf ... Shill
Jana Taylor ... Abigale
Richard Anders ... Bull

John Garwood ... Jocko
I.J. Jefferson ... Pearl
James Oliver ... Darrell 'Gypsy' Whitman
Jack Starrett ... Sgt. Bingham
Bruno VeSota ... Episcopal Priest (as Bruno Vesota)
Bob Kelljan ... Artist (as Robert Kelljan)
Kathryn Harrow ... Lori
John 'Bud' Cardos (as Bud Cardos)
Tex Hall
Gary Littlejohn ... Moley
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Runtime:
95 min | Australia:94 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Crew or equipment visible: Camera operator shadow visible when Poet tosses a Madcap into the toilet in the girl's bathroom during the bar fight. more
Quotes:
Poet: [to Buddy] I don't need you! I don't need your jacket! I'm not part of your private army! more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Wanderlust (2006) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Study in Motion #1 more

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9 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Sonny Barger's Recommendation As The Most Accurate Hell's Angels Movie., 27 February 2005
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Author: FrancesTheWHORE from Reno, Nevada

Hell's Angels On Wheels is the movie Hell's Angels president Sonny Barger recommends as the most true to life movie about the Hell's Angels in his autobiography, which is why I decided to rent it and see the movie for myself.

Buddy (Adam Roarke) is the Sonny Barger character of this movie and the leader of that particular chapter of Hell's Angels. The movie starts when Buddy and his crew are passing through a gas station when Poet (Jack Nicholson) gets fired from his job as a gas station attendant.

Eventually, Buddy takes a liking to Poet, after an altercation between Poet and another Angel over his broken headlight, and later when Poet backs Buddy up in a barroom brawl. Pretty soon, they vote Poet in as a prospect and he sees the way of life of the Hell's Angels. Buddy passes him his own woman and takes another from a club member. This seems strange to Poet at first, but he finally gets what is going on and decides he does not like it.

Plotwise, there is not much to this movie. It turns out to be mostly about the girl who gets passed between Buddy and Poet, named Shill (Sabrina Scharf). It is mostly just partying, bike riding and fighting, which I guess is what they are pointing out. Nicholson and Roarke did a great job acting and made the story better than if it would have been had they not been in it. As it is, I only give it about 5.5/10.

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