Old Motorcycle Movies

[rockquarry]

Rock Quarry. I understand your points but "One Hits Wonders" apply to movies as much as music.

BTW your forum name makes me think of the Flintstone. No offense .

Guess I missed something here; what are the "one hit wonders" you make reference to?

 

[jeffrefrig]

I remember watching that God awful movie with Joe Namath (the pride of the Beaver Valley where I grew up) called CC Rider, I think. I couldn't watch it all the way through! I watched the Easy Rider movie a few times and could relate to some of what they did. NOT all of it though! The music score was pretty good for that movie. That tripping scene would've freaked me out in real life! JN,"So this is marywanna?"
I miss my old Superglide every time I hear a 74 Shovelhead go by! (Electric and kick start. For a 160 lb. skinny hippie the start button was a gift from Heaven!)

 

[sipowicz]

And the Oscar goes to……

Chopper chicks in Zombietown.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KpRrB4fgk0[/ame]

 

[Kevin J.]

Guess I missed something here; what are the "one hit wonders" you make reference to?

I was referring to your comments about the lack of acting depth of the various actors in Easy Rider. Other than Jack Nickelson the others were journeyman. None the less they produced a classic movie…thus a "One Hit Wonder" if one will.

 

[rockquarry]

I was referring to your comments about the lack of acting depth of the various actors in Easy Rider. Other than Jack Nickelson the others were journeyman. None the less they produced a classic movie…thus a "One Hit Wonder" if one will.

The most experienced of the group when "Easy Rider" was made was probably Dennis Hopper followed by Jack Nicholson, then Peter Fonda, but all were experienced actors. Hopper may have had the best credentials at the time based on roles like the one he had in "Gunfight at OK Corral", made in 1957. I don't think Nicholson or Fonda had any remotely memorable roles prior to the production of "Easy Rider", but I could easily have forgotten something.

 

[Onomea]

Then there's the Joe Namath biker movie, whatever it was.

Broadway Joe was quite a cultural phenom, looking back on it... (But no actor!)

 

[Rustyt1953]

And then along came Chuck.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Speaking of Easy Rider-
Some of it was shot around Taos, NM.
According to a Lady I met who claims to the the Hippie Era Historian,
The Hippie Commune sequence was supposed to be shot at the infamous Hog Farm.
When the locals who were serious Vegetarians saw the Caterer setting out pans of meat, they ran off the entire movie operation.
So those scenes were shot later in CA.

 

[sipowicz]

One of the first movies I worked on as a production assistant was The Bronx Warriors 1990 back in 81. I guess you call it a Spaghetti biker film. One of the lesser actors refused to let the stuntman ride his Motor Guzzi 850 up a pile of bricks. He made it about 3 feet and dumped the bike and broke his leg. And with all the problems we had shooting a super low budget Italian nightmare in The South Bronx, that was the least of it.

Vic Morrow was a cool guy and we all enjoyed working with him. Sadly he died a year later just as he was reviving his career with The Twilight Zone movie.

1990: The Bronx Warriors | The Vintagent