Imagine Russian emigrants in the basement of a New York tenement, 1913. Irving and Jack Schott make coats and sell them door-to-door. But Irving is not just another tailor. In 1925, this guy with a…
Motorcycle Gang (1994), a noir about violent bikers
The most violent film from the TV series about the Rebellious Highway is perhaps the Motorcycle Gang (Motorcycle Gang, 1994). Actually, director John Milius is known for filming military dramas, a bias towards right-wing extremism…
The Wild Angels (1966) – not-so-carefree Peter Fonda
Many fans of just about rock and roll Peter Fonda is known primarily as Wyatt from the most famous biker movie of all time - Easy Rider. But at the same time, very few people…
Jailbreakers (1994), a film from the Rebel Highway…
Jailbreakers (Jailbreakers, 1994) directed by William Friedkin is a good movie about very bad guys greasers. Jailbreakers is one of a series of films for television Rebel Highway. If you believe IMDB, then he is…
The Wild One, bikers of the 50s
Perhaps the most famous among the first films about bikers and motorcycles can be called the iconic film Wild One (The Wild One) of 1953. The plot of the film is based on a short…
The Loveless, a biker movie starring Willem Dafoe
Let me introduce you to the movie Without Love (The Loveless) of 1981. The second role of Willem Dafoe, his first major, and at the same time the first film in which he is mentioned…
The World’s Fastest Indian, a biopic of Burt…
One of the best biographical films in my memory is definitely The World's Fastest Indian, a somewhat dramatized biography of the inventor and racer from New Zealand, Burt Munro, who accelerated his 1920 Indian Scout…