![]() The others make light fun of him until he asks if they want to go see a dead body. The fourth of their group and the butt of many jokes, portly Vern Tessio ( Jerry O'Connell), begs to be let in the tree house, saying he has important news. His father resides in a mental institution but Teddy speaks highly of him for serving in WWII. Teddy, rather eccentric, is recognizable by the mangled remains of his right ear which his mentally unstable father held down to a hot stove top. Chris comes from a family renowned for their dishonesty and abusive nature, which gives him a bad rap despite his tough but kind disposition. Each boy has his own story and a reputation to follow. Gordon "Gordie" Lachance ( Wil Wheaton) is playing cards inside a tree house with his best friends Chris Chambers ( River Phoenix) and Teddy Duchamp ( Corey Feldman). He is overcome with a wave of nostalgia and begins to narrate the story of when he was 12 years old and the time he first saw a dead human being. Look for a cameo appearance by Jane Russell who plays the mother of one of the girls raped by the biker gang.A man ( Richard Dreyfuss) sits in his car reading the headline of a newspaper article about a man who had been stabbed to death at a fast food restaurant. Filming for the first of the Billy Jack movies took three years, beginning in Prescott, Ariz. Elizabeth James is Vicki, Billy Jack’s bikini-clad counterpart. The story was based on a 1964 incident in which members of the Hells Angels were arrested for raping five teenage girls in Monterey, Calif. from being harassed by the Born Losers motorcycle gang. The Born Losers (1967) directed by and starring Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack, the half-Navajo half-white ex-Green Beret and Hapkido master as he fights to protect the residents of Big Rock (Morro Bay) Calif. The movie culminates in Loser’s funeral at the end: an excuse for a wild outlaw-biker party. Loser ends up in the hospital and when his buddies bust him out, he dies. Nancy Sinatra is Fonda’s “old lady.” The plot, which is sketchy at best, centers on the battle over Loser’s stolen bike and the ensuing battle to retrieve it from a rival Mexican gang. Bruce Dern plays his pal, Loser, while Diane Ladd, Dern’s wife at the time, is his wife in the film. The Wild Angels (1966) directed by Roger Corman stars Peter Fonda as Heavenly Blues, leader of the Hells Angels. A legal battle continues over the legitimacy of a bike claiming to be one of the originals that sold for $1,350,000 during a 2014 auction. According to stuntman Bud Ekins, both bikes built for the movie were stolen off the set at gunpoint, never to be seen again. Peter Fonda’s Harley-Davidson chopper called Captain America has a notorious history. Jack Nicholson plays George Hanson, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer and local drunk who Wyatt and Billy encounter along the way. Music aficionados might recognize Phil Spector as the drug dealer. When Kramer asked one of them what he was rebelling against, the biker responded, “Well, what ya got?” That line was later incorporated into the script.Įasy Rider (1969) directed by and starring Dennis Hopper with producer Peter Fonda as Billy and Wyatt, depicts two bikers on a two-wheeled journey of self discovery between Los Angeles and New Orleans. Producer Stanley Kramer used real biker gang members to play themselves. You might also recognize Lee Marvin as Chino of a rival gang. The iconic image of Marlon Brando as Johnny Strabler shows him straddling his own Triumph motorcycle. They raise havoc until gang leader Johnny is thrown in jail. Two motorcycle gangs take over a small Northern California town following a bike race. It was based loosely on events that took place in Hollister, Calif. The Wild One (1953), directed by Laslo Benedek, started the genre. Read on as we share our favorite outlaw biker flicks. Movies such as “Easy Rider,” “The Wild One,” and “The Born Loser” defined America’s 1960s counterculture as much as the Summer of Love. It’s surprising how many A-list movie stars from Marlon Brando to Jack Nicholson got their Hollywood starts decked out in head-to-toe leathers.
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