Motorcycle Gang

Motorcycle Gang (1957) 
AIP Production #206 

Jeff and Cheryl don black leather jackets and rev up their engines for Motorcycle Gang. 

Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Written by Lou Rusoff
Produced by Alex Gordon 

Cast:
Anne Neyland as Terry Lindsay
Steve Terrell as Randy
John Ashley as Nick Rogers
Carl Switzer as Speed
Raymond Hatton as Uncle Ed
Russ Bender as Lt. Joe Watson
Jean Moorhead as Marilyn
Scott Peters as Hank
Eddie Kafafian as Jack
Shirley Falls as Darlene
Aki Aleong as Cyrus Q. Wong
Wayne Taylor as Phil
Hal Bogart as Walt
Phyllis Cole as Mary
Suzanne Sydney as Birdie
Edmund Cobb as Bill, the Attville Cafe Manager
Paul Blaisdell as Don the Attville Man
Zon Murray as Hal
Felice Richmond as Hal’s wife 

A Golden State Pictures Production 
An American International Pictures Release 

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Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955) 

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Meet the guys who know their motors and the gals who know their guys.

(00:06):
When you say get acquainted you really mean it don't you?
Starring pretty Anne Neyland, courageous Steve Terrell, dangerous John Ashley, and laugh-loaded Carl Switzer.
Teenage cycle-hounds going all out for thrills.
Laughing at danger, playing at love, the kind of playing that leads to plenty trouble.

(00:32):
Look, here's how I forgot it!
Strong young men, fighting with all the fierce passions of grown men.
I'm taking you on tomorrow, kid.
We're gonna match guts, and one of us is gonna walk away the winner.

(00:56):
We're not talking about actors, we mean a real monster.
I brought her back.
She'll live and I'll get her another body.
I know they're gonna catch me, but don't let anyone see me like that! Please, doctor! Help me!
Biologically speaking, it's of primary importance that man should want to mate.
Hey, that’s right!
You don't get all your kicks from surfing, do you?
We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man.

(01:21):
And we want to get loaded!
You think you're gonna make a slave of the world?
I'll see you in Hell first!
The American International Podcast.
Are you ready?
This is the American International Podcast, I'm Jeff Markin.
I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
And in this episode, we're gonna get our motors run in and head out on the highway with Motorcycle Gang from 1957.

(01:44):
Motorcycle Gang was directed by Edward L. Cahn,
written by Lou Rusoff and produced by Alex Gordon for Golden State Pictures.
Motorcycle Gang stars Anne Neyland as Terry Lindsay, Steve Terrell as Randy,
John Ashley as Nick Rogers, Carl Switzer as Speed, Raymond Haddon as Uncle Ed,
Russ Bender as Lieutenant Joe Watson, Jean Moorhead as Marilyn, Scott Peters as Hank,

(02:07):
Eddie Kafafian as Jack.
It also stars Shirley Falls as Darleen, Aki Aleong as Cyrus Q Wong,
Wayne Taylor as Phil, Hal Bogart as Walt,
Phyllis Cole as Mary, Susanne Sydney as Birdie,
Edmund Cobb as Bill,the Atville Cafe Manager, Paul Blaisdell as Don, the Atville Man,
Zon Maria's Hal and Felice Richmond as Hal's wife.

(02:28):
Motorcycle Gang or as they say, Motor “Sickle” Gang, opens with motorcycles riding in the dirt and blowing dust.
The dust pulls up the opening titles for our reading enjoyment.
And there's a jazzy uptempo number courtesy Albert Glasser playing underneath.
And then we're on the streets. One group of cyclists, Randy, Speed and Marilyn are stopped at a light.
About to turn in front of them are two girls, Darlene and Terry.

(02:52):
Terry silently issues a challenge and once the lights turn green, the race is on.
Randy, Marilyn and Speed take off after them.
Randy rides ahead to catch up to the girls.
He does so and he and Terry exchange smiles as they speed along.
Not looking at the road.
Darleen falls back to ride with Speed and Marilyn, so it was not to be a third wheel.
For like six wheels at this point.
As Randy and Terry continue speeding through town, they pass by a police car.

(03:16):
The cop lights up his lights and turns on his siren and gives chase.
Randy and Terry lead the cop out to the road's end at a dirt road near the ravine.
Randy and Terry disappear.
Speed, Darleen and Marilyn are behind the cop.
When the cop sees them and tries to go after them, the three of them turn up a mountain road and manage to hide from the cop.
He gives up and goes back to town.
As for Randy and Terry, they're still riding on ahead on that mountain road.

(03:39):
The Terry hits a rock and his throne slash flipped over her sickle.
Randy runs over to make sure she's okay.
"Hey, what are you trying to do? Start a fire," says Terry.
"For a minute there, I thought you departed planet Earth," Randy says.
"Now this week," she says. "I've got a date this weekend."
Randy says, "I accept where are we going."
She snaps. "What have you been smoking? Salmon?"
As she stands up, Randy picks up her ID from the ground.

(04:00):
He looks at it and reads Teresa Lindsay.
"Terry," she corrects him.
Randy gets it. His real name is Randolph.
He tries to help my weapon and dust from her dearie heir.
And again, she snarls at him. Such first day my mother warned me about,
"Oh, one, two, three testing," he chuckles.
"Wait, what? She sits to work on her boots or something and he sits beside her.
And then she wonders if this site could be used for other purposes."

(04:23):
Randy agrees. This is a place he goes for nature studies and he pulls her close.
She has to fight him off again and says that they've got to go.
Terry says she already knows about the birds and the bees.
She's ready to go, but Randy tells her to hold up. It's open season on sicklehounds
and they're still out there looking for them.
"Terry, ask how long they're going to have to wait three weeks?"
"I'm game," says Randy. "Can you cook?"

(04:44):
She says that he must be the life of the party with those jokes.
Then we cut back to where Speed, Marilyn, and Darleen are waiting.
After the coast is clear and the police car has driven by,
Speed tells Darleen they can go rescue her friend now.
Marilyn says if anyone needs saving, it's Randy.
And up at your the one that can do it too, says Darleen,
which causes Marilyn to leap at her. Speed breaks it up by attempting to restrain Marilyn.

(05:05):
Speed says, "Hey, hey, hey, don't tangle with Marilyn. She's a migra. I'm warning you."
"Oh, what asked, Darleen? Oh, I forgot," says Speed.
"You're not hip to this new lingo. Migra, mad tiger."
Then he says if you're going to fight about something, make it about me.
Marilyn snaps, "Expire clown. I promise to send flowers."
Then they walk off and search for the others.
Back with Randy and Terry, Randy says he thought he knew every sicklecat in town.

(05:28):
Terry says she's from a foreign land, Chicago, and Randy welcomes her to America.
And then he asks how long she's staying, where and what's her phone number?
Terry says her parents are in Europe, so she's been exiled to her uncle's ranch in Saratosa.
That's where they hold a PMG race, says Randy.
It's a real cool sickle country. He hopes she's staying all summer.
She says that or until she drives her uncle ed crazy.

(05:49):
He's trying to wiener off cycles and convert her to cows or something.
Once again, he asks for her phone number.
She just recommends they communicate via smoke signals.
And then he gets grabby again.
As speed would say, "You're a shawl, a sharp doll."
But that donor pressed Terry much, and she flips him over her head into the ground.
But then she makes sure that he's okay.
And the others join them.
Marilyn's snarls about this being an episode of Love and the Reveen.

(06:12):
Will she end up marrying the drip?
Darleen raises Terry's arm into the air and declares her the winner and still champion.
Terry the terrible.
Speed asks her for a few words.
"Take nothing, Ma. I was just seeing my duty and I'd done it."
"I know it's here from the runner-upper," says Speed.
"Randy tells him to beat it. You floppy or knit-wit."
But Speed says the public deserves to know.
So, Randy Relent says that he took a dive.

(06:34):
Speed then hits on Darleen, breaking that he won an award for spending six years in the seventh grade.
Or was it seven years in the sixth grade?
Does Darleen want to see it?
She says she can see it now, scoot into his neck, solid bone and ugly.
He says, "You I could like."
And he asks how her lands fix for long green.
Darleen says that she knows where Speed can buy a padded cell, his size, real cheap.

(06:55):
Speed says he'll take it as long as it's next to hers.
Then he tells Randy that he'll see him when he gets down the hill.
Randy and Terry ride down to where the others left their sickles
and the others soon arrive after walking down the hill.
Randy asks Terry for a rematch.
Terry says later when he's back in shape.
Darleen is dragging off Speed who's tired.
He's only had four meals that day.
Randy invites Terry to the Blue Moon tonight for the PMG meeting.

(07:18):
Terry doesn't like organized cycling. It isn't her bag. It's a squash.
Randy says that an official blessing goes a long way.
But Terry's not swayed.
Marilyn comes up and snarks at there's one club member who won't be missing Terry.
Terry hops off her bike and faces Marilyn.
It's not only at Randy. I don't know why, but her mother doesn't like me.
Meanwhile, Speed is still working on Darleen.
I know you want to see me again, he says.

(07:40):
So if you ever need to find me, just give the message to any traffic cop. He'll get it.
Darleen walks away saying nothing. Speed hops on his bike and starts it.
Then jumps off holding his chest. They got me good. I died for love.
Randy comes over grab Speed and throws him back in his sickle.
Literally. Then he kicks him down the hill.
As the others leave, Terry and Darleen stay behind.
Terry says she may take Randy up on his offer.

(08:02):
Darleen says some of those cats run pretty wild.
That's for me, he says Terry and the two right off down the hill.
Terry rides back to the ranch where she lives with her uncle.
Uncle Ed razzles her about being dusty, so she tries to assuage his concern by saying that she's going to join a club.
Oh great says Uncle Ed. Poetry sewing? One of those clubs?
Yes, as Terry and also instructions in the menuette.

(08:25):
Uncle Ed supposes that Terry must have met a fella.
That's what brought on this sudden change.
Terry says, yep, and he's a real wheel.
So Uncle Ed tells her to roll him on by sometimes so he can get a look at him.
And now we get to go to the blue moon where Randy's gang are all tuning up their cycles just outside the restaurant.

(08:49):
The owner, Cyrus, comes out to ask if anyone plans to part with some lettuce today,
are they just going to spend the day scratching away it is parking lot for nothing?
He's got a tax bill to pay, you know?
Speed says he could go for a malted, but Cyrus says that speed would be more helpful washing dishes with the amount of profit he'd make on that transaction.
Birdie, whose only personality trait is eating giggles and then she eats some more.

(09:10):
Everyone else boss is silent to stare at her.
Cyrus asks Randy if he's tried the field mixture that he recommended.
Randy says he will in the time trials next week.
Marilyn exits the blue moon wearing a strapless swimsuit apparently and walks towards the back where the guys are working on their cars.
Randy and Speed are discussing Terry. She's still on Randy's mind.
Marilyn walks over and speeds eyes nearly pop out of his head.

(09:31):
Insulated she says put some dark glasses on. She asks Randy if he can take a look at her clutch assembly right here in broad daylight.
Ask Speed you're so funny I could split your sides laughing does Marilyn.
Randy says he'll be with her as soon as he's finished with his sickle speed once again horns in and Marilyn threatens him with bodily harm.
As Marilyn walks away with your engines revving and then two blackjacketed cyclists pull up behind the diner.

(09:52):
There's no reaction.
So the main cyclist Nick scoffs what no reception committee no glad hand away 15 months and they don't even remember my name.
It's Rogers Nick Rogers.
He says hello Randy and Randy says he's sorry things worked out like they did and hopes they can forget it forget 15 months in that lousy place look here's how I forgot it and he sucks Randy in the face.

(10:16):
And then they fight during each other into the walls of the building that shutter under their contact Cyrus pops out to warn them not to do any damage or he'll sue them and Randy flips Nick over his head.
Nick grabs a large screwdriver off the ground and throws it it breaks one of the windows of the blue moon.
Nick grabs a slab of broke glass from the window advances on Randy and starts slashing it.
Randy dodges Nick and then somehow manages to get the upper hand he backs Nick into the wall and has the glass at Nick's throat but Randy can't pull the trigger so to speak.

(10:44):
He drops the glass makes says that he missed his chance.
Randy says Nick smart he'll stay away from him Nick chuckles too bad for Andy Nick admits he's not smart.
Cyrus pops out again and says they're all nothing but trouble.
Then Nick and his crony leave sometime later we finally find ourselves inside the blue moon.
Birdie is dancing with speed while eating.
She's also sporting an oversized pocketbook that she's using to bunk people in the head who are just trying to eat.

(11:09):
Cyrus is holding a tray of drinks and tries to push past the two he makes a crack about birdie being the size of an aircraft carrier.
Kind of rude.
At another table Marilyn is sitting with Randy.
She's looking at him dreamy eyed and he's concentrating on writing something.
She's critiquing her evening with Randy and concludes that she had a better time at the more or at least the steps were looking at her.
Randy's more concerned about his takeoff power though.

(11:30):
Marilyn says he has a one cylinder mind.
Then Nick and his buddy come in Cyrus warns them that if there's any trouble he'll call the boys in blue get the picture.
It's in focus the scenes made says Nick.
He goes over to Randy and Marilyn's table looking good Marilyn.
I'm glad somebody thinks so she says then Nick addresses Randy I'm back told you I'm not smart.
Randy asked Nick what he's trying to prove Nick aims to prove how much he hates Randy and is going to get even.

(11:56):
Randy tries to act nonchalant and then Nick leaves to join some guys in a booth then speed joins Marilyn and Randy at the table.
Quiet genius at work says Marilyn speed asked Randy to invent him 35 cents for a malted since he's a genius and all speed tells Randy that Nick wants his crown back.
Randy thinks that Nick is going to break up the club meeting tonight.
Marilyn tells speed that she's desperate enough to dance with him but speed only offers to flip Randy for the honor loser gets to dance with her.

(12:21):
Marilyn says that she prays she'll live long enough to be one of his pall bears.
Then she waltzes into Nick's waiting arms and they dance speed tells Randy that Nick sees red when he looks at Randy.
But Randy's not interested in that and speed goes back to dancing with birdie who is now currently eating two celery stocks at once.
Then we see that Terry rides up on her motorcycle and she goes inside.
She takes a seat at the bar and Randy goes over to join her.

(12:44):
You look better than I remember he says and I do remember Terry is impressed with the line on the dance floor speeds till the answer with birdie as she's knowing on those celery stocks.
Come on set up.
It looks like they'll be fur flying tonight.
What's it going to be being her nails at three or hair pulling at four?
Marilyn says that with trees as type the fights going to be taken outside at the counter.
Randy introduces Terry to Cyrus to ask what her cash only order is going to be.

(13:07):
Terry wants a burger raw no onions.
One pony still living no tears confirm Cyrus who goes off to drill a horse.
Then Randy shows Terry the one string unit tower that Cyrus uses to play rock and roll.
Then Marilyn and Nick stop dancing and they wander over.
Introduce me says Nick.
Marilyn says Miss caviar of 1957 meet the head of Nick Rogers Inc. The Inc stands for incorrigible.

(13:29):
Then Marilyn drags Nick back onto the dance floor.
See later says Nick and often Terry likes the sound of that must be next accent.
Then speed comes over.
I'm a homin says Terry.
I saw you dancing with your mountain mean Cyrus drops off Terry's burger and speed reaches for it.
Randy slaps his hand away after Terry's mean jokes.
Speed calls are a cactus when she's not looking he eats half of her burger then Lieutenant Joe Watson enters he greets Nick.

(13:54):
Nick comments that the lieutenant is out of uniform and lieutenant Joe explains that he's there to work with the PMG club invite stick to join but Nick doesn't do rules and regulations and such.
Lieutenant Joe goes over to Randy after being introduced to Terry.
Lieutenant Joe and Randy off to speak privately.
Lieutenant Joe tells Randy that he heard about the scuffle he had with Nick last night and he needs to be careful even street fight is a misdemeanor and that can have him banned from the race.

(14:18):
Randy knows this but the more he backs down the more Nick will keep crowding him speaking of crowding Nick sidles up to Terry and says that if she takes Randy from Lieutenant Joe she'll be busting up a beautiful relationship.
While Nick is unattached I shouldn't wonder says Terry Nick acts insulted and goes to leave but Terry grabs his arm and tells him that he gives up easy.
Nick sits back down in the two lock eyes Randy sees this from across the room and heads over there to I guess liquor or something claim her for his own but there's no time for that because now it's time to start the meeting the first order of business will be the collection of dudes speed moves at the meeting be adjourned birdie finds this hysterical Maryland is asked to collect the do's she goes around with the helmet and everyone drops something in even speed has some money birdie drops in a marshmallow she has been eating.

(15:03):
As the do's are being collected the meeting is turned over to the tenet Joe to go over the terms of the big race in Saratosa basically the rules are that you have to be in good standing with both law and the group charter to be eligible Lieutenant Joe soft accuses some in the group of being clocked racing in the streets over 90 miles per hour so I guess it's a good thing they weren't I did.
Nick stands and asked to be excused so in this lousy school because that's what this thing has become all these rules regulation that's kid stuff.

(15:28):
The tenet Joe announces to the crowd that the only reason Nick longs for the old days is because he's nobody unless they let him throw his weight around he's nothing and he's nowhere in this kind of a setup.
Nick stands to challenge the tenet Joe you in your cop psychology I've had 15 months of it and believe me I'm sick up to here then he addresses the crowd is there any guts left in this place or did you turn them in when you signed up for this lousy charter anyone in for some real riding now silence pretty takes a bite of an apple.

(15:56):
Nick storms out and his crony follows the tenet Joe says characters like that will loss up the whole play meeting over really that was it.
Terry glows at everyone in the room this club stuff really boxes you in doesn't it I guess on the rebellious type like Nick.
The tenet Joe comes over to Randy and says if he wants to be the qualifier for there can be only one needs to never be caught doing anything to record his chances.

(16:19):
He leaves and Terry wants a translation of their basically straightforward conversation.
But Randy blows that off and says they should get acquainted first any drags are on to the dance floor Maryland passes by them and shoots Terry a dirty look.
I think Maryland just took a knife in my back says Terry could you take a look please.
Randy takes a look and says it's all good in the straightaways he just can't see around the curves.
Oh good one later as they're leaving and mounting their cycles Nick in his flunky roll up Nick wants to race.

(16:45):
Randy's not interested but Terry encourages Randy to go for it and then lieutenant buzzkill pops into frame to send everyone off on their separate ways.
Saved by the bulls has Nick and he and his flunky right off.
Randy and Terry go back to her uncle Ed's ranch.
Not having a backseat they have to make out standing up after three seconds of smooching Terry declares them acquainted enough for Randy to spill on his back story.

(17:13):
So Randy relancin gives her the scoop yet be given a two year suspended sentence and the lieutenant was just reminding him about it.
But Terry wants the whole story so about two years ago.
Randy and Nick were riding and when going around a corner Nick would head a few beers knocked over a guy and Randy ran him over.
Nick wanted Randy to say that the guy ran right in front of him and he wouldn't and Nick got one to five and Randy got two years suspended sentence.

(17:36):
Another he's out Nick knows that Randy can't do anything to him without violating his probation.
So he's going to be relentless.
Terry prescribes giving Nick a good looking to get him off Randy's back but Randy says Nick doesn't want to do get out.
He wants to do a long bike so we can be a big wheel.
Pun intended.
Terry says the cops can't be everywhere but Randy can't break club safety rules.
If he did he couldn't participate in the race and that's more important to him than anything.

(18:01):
He goes on to explain that he's doing this for his mother who's had away tables since he was a kid and a fruit to himself that he could be the best at something.
It's not good enough to be the third or second.
He's got to win Randy asked if he can call Terry tomorrow not tomorrow says Terry.
I'm going riding with Nick.
Oh says Randy.
He sure got in the act passed.
What's the matter?
Can't you take it as Terry and Randy replies.

(18:23):
I'll sharpen my sword Genevieve and he rides off inside.
Uncle Ed has been peeping out the window but when he sees Terry approaching he jumps over to the couch to pretend to be asleep.
As Terry thinks and he pretends to wake up and then clocks how late Terry is.
They figure out it's well past 2 a.m. but Uncle Ed's not really mad.
He's sure that this lifestyle is a good thing for her but she sure he's just being silly.
He says she just met a guy and now she's got to get him out of a pickle.

(18:46):
Men she says good night and he goes off in search of chicken.
Now we get a montage showing Terry's social life.
First Terry is riding with Nick.
Then Terry is riding with Randy.
Then Randy and Terry check out Uncle Ed's horses.
Then Terry is riding with Nick again and cops chase them.
Then back at the blue moon Terry is dancing with Nick.
Nick has gone full hood limb here wearing a jacket and tie.

(19:08):
And that's the end of the montage.
We see Nick parking his car in front of Terry's house and offering her a slug of booze from a bottle that he's obviously been pulling off of all night.
She declines so Nick drains the bottle and asks Terry to go in her house and find some more.
She refuses.
He's hit the bottle too hard already tonight.
Nick says that's okay. He can get a little tight just looking at her.
Aww.
He tries to kiss her and she pulls back.

(19:30):
Is Randy meeting my time with you?
No one's beating your time says Terry. I'm a free agent.
That's the story you give me. What do you tell him?
Terry thinks that Nick is nice enough until someone mentions Randy.
Then Nick tries to mack on her again.
They bigger a little bit and then Nick softens.
Can he at least take her to watch the qualifying trials tomorrow?
Terry agrees and they say goodnight.
And Nick, DUI's home.

(19:51):
The next day, Randy and Speed are at the raceway looking over Randy's bike.
Marilyn comes over when she sees Nick and Terry ride up on their sickles.
Here's one race you're going to lose.
Randy looks over and says it's not the big one.
Nick decides that he's going to take the run too.
Randy tells him sorry you're not eligible.
Nick calls Randy a chicken and Lieutenant Joe comes over to hold Randy back
and keep him out of trouble.

(20:12):
Nick says he just wants to ride.
No times, no trophies.
Lieutenant Joe asks what's the point in that?
I'll set the pace. Nick says.
Randy says just to let him run.
Whatever you say, it says Lieutenant Joe and Nick takes his place at the starting line.
Terry tries to tell Randy good luck.
But Randy asks who's corner are you in?
Terry says that she's neutral.
Randy says that she's going to have to pick a side eventually.

(20:34):
Then Randy goes to join the racers, but speed offers a last bit of advice.
Stay away from the snip, which stands for small drip.
Because Nick doesn't care who wins as long as it's not Randy.
And then they're off.
Nothing much interesting happens on the race except Nick rides up to Randy
and tries to kick him off his bike, almost making him spill.
But in the end, it's Nick that wipes out.
Randy ends up placing first and rides over to where Terry is waiting.

(20:57):
She embraces him and tells him to come over this weekend and he'll celebrate.
And to bring speed too, the Arlene is crazy about him.
He's got some mad ideas about men.
I'll say.
Nick rides up and says, "Randy did a not too bad job."
But he likes to see how he handles that bike in close recorders.
Aren't you tired of that stuff?
I am, says Randy.
Nick asks Terry if she's coming.
In a minute, she says, and Nick rides off.

(21:18):
Speed is now there and he recommends taking Nick on.
And Randy snarls at him.
Then speed leaves.
Terry tells Randy they'll make a party of it Saturday night and invite all the kids.
They could start a date and Randy and speak and come over early around noon
and they can have a picnic.
Speed and Arlene share a blanket and Terry and Randy have their own.
Terry's explaining her good time girl philosophy.

(21:39):
Once you settle down, it's forever.
But it's too soon for that.
She climbs onto Randy's bike.
To him, this bike is a symbol of work and for racing.
But to her, it's power.
She says, "Go faster and it does."
She says, "Turn and it does."
It's the one thing she can control.
Randy tells her she's dreaming.
At some point, the machine takes over.
If he could have kept his bike from running over that guy, he would have.

(22:01):
"You just had a bad break," says Terry.
I think Joe's brainwashed you.
A little ways away, darling and speed are having a very different conversation.
He calls her a brawl, which to him means beautiful doll.
And I just want to point out there's not a single R in that phrase.
She tells him to forget any ideas he has and throw something on his face.
And he eventually agrees.
Back with their bicker sense, they seem to be coming to a ceasefire.

(22:24):
Randy says, "Maybe she can help manage his disputes or something like that."
And Terry likes that idea.
She'll start yesterday.
They cling to each other briefly.
Then Terry says they better get back to the house.
Cyrus will be coming with the food soon.
So at the party, Cyrus in his chef's hat is mining the food table.
Birdie is stuffing her face.
Uncle Ed comes into survey at the party.

(22:45):
He goes over to where Randy and Terry are dancing to put the hole it goes between them.
No clinging, he says.
Terry asked her uncle if he wouldn't like to go to bed.
But Ed says there'll be no sleep for him until his free fur all is over.
And he gets some space between Randy and Terry and he pulls on the gun to show he's serious.
They separate but rejoin the second Uncle Ed walks away.
Not having effed up the party enough, Uncle Ed kills the bebop, turning off the radio,

(23:07):
and pulls out his fiddle to play a shuttish.
Terry grimaces, but Cyrus wants to teach Uncle Ed to rock out.
He grabs his unitar and goes to jam with Ed.
They create some weird fusion music and everyone's delighted until Nick arrives.
Terry breaks away from Randy to show Nick where the food is.
Randy comes over to take Terry back to the dance floor.
Then he dances her right off the door where they can talk privately.

(23:29):
However, before they left, it looked like Terry and Nick were sending some sort of secret message to each other.
Randy says he didn't know Nick was invited.
Terry says he wasn't not invited, but she didn't know he was coming.
Nick comes out and tells Randy that he wasn't supposed to have any beef with them until after the race tomorrow.
He said he was afraid he'd forget his lines, so he just couldn't wait.
Randy steers daggers into Terry.

(23:50):
You didn't know he was coming.
It was for your own good, she says.
Nick splashes his drink in Randy's face and Randy pushes Nick into the side of the house.
On Sickles, Randy, that way I can't argue with you.
Nick says anything to please the queen, she's got to have her kicks.
So Randy agrees.
Terry tells Randy that he's got her all wrong, but he says, "No, man, I got you.

(24:11):
Did right."
Which is a little joke from our Bobby Joe and the A la episode.
And now everyone assembles where the challenge is to take place.
But some things are wrong with Nick's bike.
He and his buddy discuss it out of your shop.
Then the whole gang is there.

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Nick's describing the race course and says that they're going to take turns riding it.
Terry says she's going to ride too.
Randy says if anyone else rides, he won't.
Convenient excuse teases Nick.
Do any of you guys have any stomach pills?
Because he seems to have lost his.
Randy tells Terry she better not ride, but Terry does what she wants.
A little more goading in the races on.
So a group of sickleists are racing.
They ride around the track.

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The girl's ride no-handed.
Nick checks his bike and is definitely leaking oil.
He smiles.
Race isn't over yet though.
Everyone heads for some railroad tracks that stretch over a bridge.
And this time it's just Nick and Randy.
This is even too much for Terry.
So Terry can handle the stopwatch.
Best time takes it all.
She walks across the tracks to the other end,
stopping to peer over the edge of the bridge on the way.

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Nick is the first to ride over the bridge.
He does in 85 seconds.
That'll be hard to beat says Nick.
Terry notices that he's leaking oil and leaks leaked oil all over the bridge.
She tries to call on to Randy to stop,
but Nick holds his hand over her mouth.
It's too late anyways.
Randy's already on his way.
Terry watches in horror as the inevitable happens.
One minute, Randy's juttering over the railroad ties,

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and the next he hits an oil slick and his bike tumbles over the bridge
onto the dirt below.
A scumbag Nick says that he was just trying to slow Randy down.
But Terry's not listening.
She's already run off to Randy, as does everyone else.
He's dead, says Terry.
If he's not, says speed, it's no fall of yours.
Somebody call an ambulance.
Dead evening, Terry is on her front porch staring off into space.

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A glit comes out.
What's the matter?
Couldn't sleep?
It's a beautiful night.
Smell that alpha.
Good joke.
Terry tells him what's going on.
She tells him how she got Randy to break every rule on the book
and nearly got him killed.
Uncle Ed suggests she tells him she's sorry.
Terry says she would, but Randy won't see her.
Uncle Ed says she should make him see her.
There's any visual bite if you've got good bait.

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Terry says that she's a stew aim, a stupid aim.
Uncle Ed scoffs at that.
What a dumb way to talk.
That's me and not him.
Sometime later, Nick comes over.
Terry asks what it is that he wants.
He says he's been trying to call, but her uncle said that she didn't want to talk to him.
That's right.
I don't, says Terry.
Nick tries to offer a wheezyly non-pology.
He was just trying to slow Randy down, but Terry's still incensed.

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And she thinks no more of herself than she does of him.
She says she's going inside.
He grabs her and she demands that he take his hands off of her.
He begs her not to give him the brush off, now like the rest of them have.
He says that he and she are one of a kind.
They go for the same kicks to which she responds, don't you ever, ever call me again.
As she backs away, Nick grabs her to assault her further.

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Terry only escapes by biting his hand until he lets her go, and she flees inside.
Nick tries to follow, but he's shut out.
Now we're back at the blue moon, and we see Randy seated at a table with Marilyn and speed.
Randy doesn't look beat up at all.
Speed says that he hopes Randy doesn't feel as bad as Marilyn looks.
But Randy is a little moody.
Marilyn tries to cheer him up, but he's moping about Terry.

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He feels betrayed.
Marilyn says it pains her to admit it, but Terry did try to stop him from crossing.
Randy says, yeah, but she engineered the whole conflict.
Marilyn says that he has her blessing to call Terry.
And if Terry drops dead, Marilyn will be there to console him.
Next to see Randy and speed around, side the blue moon working on Randy's bike.
Tarling drags Terry over so speed knocks off with Tarling, leaving Terry and Randy to talk.

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Terry tries to apologize again and says that Randy's maturity was contagious, but it's not painless.
She says she's been wrong about many things, and it really hit home when Nick tried to say that she and him were exactly the same.
Randy, thanks for trying to stop him from crossing the railroad tracks.
And then speed comes up behind them, tells him to hurry up into the diner, the votes in.
They've made a decision and Randy's back in the club.

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They go inside and lieutenant Joe lets Randy know that though he himself fought against it,
it has been decided that Randy was goaded by outside forces into breaking the rules of the club.
And therefore he can race.
I'll convene it.
And race we shall.
There's a huge crowd of numbered bikes all ready to go.
Randy's suited up.
He's number 23.
Terry's shyly wishes him good luck, but Tarling thinks that they can do better and clunks their heads together so they can kiss.

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Then the flag is waved and the race begins.
And then punch their bikes crashing to each other and fall over, but not Randy's.
Tarling knows a shortcut to the first checkpoint, so they head out as Bernie produces a head of lettuce from her purse.
Only speed is interested in a bite.
We see that Nick and his cronies are hanging around too.
They also plan to catch them at the checkpoint at Atville.
Plus, they're gonna need more beer.

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Nick and his motorcycle gang parked their bikes where they can oversee the oncoming racers.
One of them jokes about Randy winning the race and Nick slugs him.
The guy says he was just kidding and Nick apologizes and says he needs a drink.
Another suggests they go to that genuine in town and Nick agrees that sounds like a good idea.
In the small town of Atville, two men watch the race pass by.
That's the last of them announces the younger man who says he's gonna follow.

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The older man, Bill, who owns the cafe, was inside to tell his waitress that she can come out now.
The war is over. Is it?
Not quite because Nick and his gang ride to the cafe.
They ask what he has to drink. He has milk.
They want something stronger so he serves them coffee.
But that's still not strong enough.
Plus, it tastes terrible.
They ask if he owns the liquor store next door, but Bill says that it's been closed for some time.

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Nick says he's sure there's something in the back.
But Bill insists that whatever is in the back is his business and he doesn't sell liquor.
Well, then give us some demands, Nick.
Bill tells him to go and then Nick throws a mantrum, breaking stuff and crashing everything off the counter.
The older says he's going to call the cops, but unfortunately the pay phone is all the way across the restaurant.
He runs towards it, but they're faster.
They catch up to Bill, push him against the wall.

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Nick whips his chain into the wall next to the phone.
His main flunky decides he's gonna go hunt for booze in the back.
Mary throws herself in front of the door.
You stay out of there, she says.
The guy pushes her back against the wall.
She screams and her screams alert Paul Blaise-Dell who is outside reading a paper.
I didn't know his name so I just called him Paul Blaise-Dell while I was around.
It's better for us if we just say who he is.

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He's Paul Blaise-Dell.
The thug throws Mary into the others and another pushes her and Bill into a booth.
The guy comes back to the front with two piles of hard stuff, but there's no time to celebrate.
Reinforcements says Nick as Paul Blaise-Dell comes in.
What is it, Mary?
He spits out before Nick punches him cold.
He's dragged over to the booth with the others.
Nick demands it as three hostages choose some entertainment.

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You want to see a circus?
But Nick needs more of an audience so he commands a minion to round up the other town spoke before they start.
A hour at the next checkpoint where Terry's getting impatient.
Speed listens to the police radio like it's pop music.
Back at the cafe, Nick says the show is about to begin and it's free to thank them for the pie and the ditch water.
Mary says that they should have choked on it and then they go out back.

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They line up the town spoke and ride their sickles all around them, but they need more fuel and Mary says she has some and volunteers to go get it.
Nick tells her to go and make it snappy and then he sends Jack when it is guys to keep an eye on her.
Summary goes back to the cafe and calls the police, but Jack comes in and catches her in the act and rips the phone from the wall.
Then he tells her to go get the fuel that she had promised by which he means more booze.

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At the checkpoint, Terry hears motors approaching, but louder than that and APB goes out over the radio.
It says some PMG riders for causing trouble up in Atville.
Lieutenant Joe has to go and he's also going to bust up the race because he needs backup.
So Lieutenant Joe takes speed with them and they wave down Randy and another rider.
Lieutenant Joe tells them that some rogue bikers are roughing up the town.
Why tell me asked Randy? I've got this thing in the bag.

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I'm not telling you Randy says Lieutenant Joe. I'm sure some of the others will help.
The guilt trip works because Randy apologizes and says let's go.
You just want yourself more than a race says Lieutenant Joe.
Did he though? Back with Nick and his prisoners. Nick has the idea to set up a slalom course with each person as a pole.
They force everyone to march. The hostages aren't into this though and one of them decides to start a mutiny by punching Nick in the face.

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He's soon overwhelmed by the others though.
Now Joe Randy and Speed have made it to the cafe and they find that it's empty, but then they hear the kerfuffle in the back.
So head that way. So the posse rides around and is each of Nick's gang is knocked out their bikes.
Lieutenant Joe is there with handcuffs to cuff them and uses one of the toughs chains to chain them all together.
Lieutenant Joe makes a point to tell the hostages that those weren't PMG men.

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They're allocats on motorbikes and there's a big difference.
One hostage looks might I really have to hear this.
Now it's party time at the blue moon.
Randy says this is quite a victory celebration for a loser.
Terry tells him he's won everything in sight.
Everything asked Randy.
Terry says, well, with reservations.
Bertie walks up to Darleen and Speed who are dancing.

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She's holding a cream pie.
Darleen demands that he choose.
Speed declares that he can choose both and tries to dance with both girls at the same time.
Cyrus plays a tune on his unitar and then Bertie throws the pie in Speed's face which causes Speed to break the fourth wall.
And we have no idea what he said because we really couldn't make it out.
His mouth was full of pie.

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This whole face was full of pie and that's the end.
We're listening to the American International Podcast where we're discussing motorcycle gang from 1957.
Lance Feller was initially set to start motorcycle gang according to an item in the March 5th, 1957 lost Angelo's times.

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According to an AP story about Mary Ligoyne and Gage Ennis,
who lost her crown as Miss USA 1957 after it was discovered she was married, which made her ineligible,
a spokesman for AIP said the studio was offering Mrs. Gage a future role in motorcycle gang.
And Nealand, who actually did appear in motorcycle gang, was Arroad from MGM Studios for this movie.

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A blurred branding in the Los Angeles mirror on August 1, 1957,
announced that Steve Torell currently filming the Ozzy and Harriet show was signed to motorcycle gang.
Carl L. F. Switzer's casting was announced on August 10 in the LA Times.
In May of 1957, the Hollywood reporter wrote that filming for motorcycle gang was held up when John Ashley was drafted into the army.

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The movie was shot that August during the two weeks Ashley was on leave following basic training.
According to Mark Thomas McGee's book, Faster and Furious,
an understanding lieutenant allowed Ashley to skip further haircuts after his basic training trip.
When another less understanding officer tried to force him to get his hair cut, Ashley went to the back of the line
and then convinced the delivery boy to take his place in line by giving the boy his fatigue jacket and taking his bag of newspapers.

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Motorcycle gang was filmed on a budget of $100,000.
Is this going to be a problem that you're calling it motorcycle gang and I'm calling it motorcycle gang?
Motorcycle gang was released on a double bill with sorority girl beginning on October 22, 1957.
Newspaper ads for the movie promised it to be "uncensored".
The IPs press book recommended contacting motorcycle hot rod and drag racing enthusiasts in the area and encouraging them to see motorcycle gang

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and told them to put sickles on display in the lobby.
They also recommended holding a motorcycle model contest, asking motorcycle dealers to be the judges and giving passes and other promo prizes to the winners.
Taglines for motorcycle gang include
What happens when organized motorcycle gangs are forced into a legal race competition?
A wild girl's sicklist forces a showdown in a thrilling motorcycle race.

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Wild and wicked, living with no tomorrow.
See actual motorcycle chicken race. See world champion stunt riders. See deadly follow the leader race.
Cycle stunts and thrills never shown before on any screen.
First time on the screen, motorcycle duel with death to the loser.
Who died?
Box office magazine wrote that motorcycle gang combined with sorority girl should draw a better-than-average interest from the teenage crowd.

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albeit there is little interest for anyone outside this age category.
But the review is not a positive one. Lou Rousseff screenplay was "short on plot and what there is concentrates too heavily on the motorcycle action."
And that quote, there's no denying that Edward Elkahn managed to drain every possible bit out of the potential excitement of the races.
Their review did credit the performances of Chorelle, Ashley and Neelan saying, "can do better than the merely competent work you're in displayed."

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The Los Angeles Times called motorcycle gang "commentively free of unhealthy sensationalism and the fairly well-integrated scenario tells its unpretentious little moral simply enough."
But also call it "nothing to telegraph home about."
The Los Angeles Mirror seemed to call out the film's remarkable resemblance to drag strip girl, released earlier that same year.
Quote, "we have not heard the last of the drag strip set. They have gathered together for another hastily organized session in motorcycle gang.

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After describing the plot, reviewer Margaret Hartford said, "sound familiar? It gets even more recognizable when John Ashley challenges Steve, Chorelle, on probation after hit and run accident, to a dangerous stunt on a railroad track.
The paper also promoted an autograph party at the Paramount Theatre in LA that night featuring the stars from both motorcycle gang and sorority girl."

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The true voice, a religious publication on a Omaha, Nebraska, rated the film X for a week. And reviewer William Maureen warned readers that motorcycle gang had four examples of juvenile behavior and was an insult to the intelligence and responsibility of many young people who are lured to the box office.
The Niles Michigan Daily Star called motorcycle gang, "a cheap carbon copy of the wild one."

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And wrote there was little to be said in favor of either film on the double bill. Quote, "both low budget pictures aimed at the teenage market. I so live just south of Niles Michigan."
Bob Murphy in the Minneapolis star wrote about how American international pictures was changing the film industry. They had just started to produce both films on a double bill rather than just one low budget feature to be slatted after another company's film.

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At first, their films aimed at the teenage market were only scheduled at small independent theaters, but their grosses were such that they caught the attention of the larger operators and AIP was able to book their films into deluxe houses.
He also mentioned the AIP technique of selling films before they were made by thinking of titles laying out an ad campaign using that to sell the movie all before a single frame of film had been shot.

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This successful technique was then picked up by other producers. Murphy said AIP's films had titles that drew box office dollars away from better movies that did not have such lured names.
He called upcoming titles, including Blood of Dracula, the Amazing Colossal Man, and yes, motorcycle gang hair raising.
The Philadelphia evening inquire under the headline Stole Car after seeing wild film reported that motorcycle gang was the instigating factor in a juvenile crime reporting that on May 12, two young boys left the double feature.

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Stolen automobile and injured a woman who subsequently lost most of her leg. The inquire along with the Philadelphia evening bulletin only disclosed at the end of the article that the two boys stole the key to the car four days before they saw the film.
Shameful journalism. Thomas Sharp, vice president of the Lancaster motorcycle club, wrote to the Buffalo Courier Express in January of 1958, saying that he had recently seen a showing of motorcycle gang.

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And thought the movie was quote, definitely a third rate film designed merely to provide a precarious thrill via the modern day symbol of all that is evil, the black leather jacket.
It depicted the motorcycle list as just another juvenile food. Sharp said that he was not protesting the showing of the film, but he wanted to set the record straight about who really rides cycles, inviting the general public to take part in his club's gala, benefiting the national polio drive, saying,

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the price of the dance tickets is less than the admission to see motorcycle gang and that attendees would get the true picture of motorcycle clubs and their activities.
Motorcycle gang was one of the 10 AIP titles remade for Showtime's Rebel Highway Television series released in 1994. The 1994 version was produced by Lou Arcoff and was directed by John Millius.
Laurie McQuillan and Ken Anderson were the screenplay and Jill McRainey, Jake Busy and Carla Guigino starred.

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So Cheryl as seems to be the norm for this period in time, the critics were not too receptive to motorcycle gang. How is your reception?
Well, for some I mentioned, the critics were probably people who read the newspapers and at that time apparently there was some sort of upsurge in juvenile crime.

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And as older people always want to do, they need to find something to blame that isn't themselves. So they look to the modern entertainment and say,
ah, there's the cause. And I think a lot of these AIP movies got a bad rap for that because they depicted juvenile crime even though in another episode that we did, we mentioned that AIP always sticks on moral in there somewhere.

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There's really no way that crime ends up paying in these movies. The bad guys always get what's coming to them. But somehow that nuance was lost on a lot of critics who just would look at the titles, like one of the letter writers that we saw, we just look at the titles and see, wow, this is about bad people.
The black leather jacket was a symbol of all that's evil. And I think that's kind of what happened here.

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Well, a title like bad guy gets his wouldn't bring people in the theaters and that's what these movies are designed to do. They were supposed to be money makers get kids into theaters and see these films and titles like motorcycle gang and dragship girl might just have that effect.
I think bad guy gets is would not work on teenagers. So yeah, they definitely needed to make it sound a little more juicy than it really is.

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But I think anyone who actually watches the movie should be able to see that there's not some immoral message coming out here.
As for me, I really had a kick watching at least the beginning part of the movie. The racing is really silly. They're all in front of screens for the close-up shots.
But the stunt work people are really riding the bikes the stunt people they're actually doing some pretty cool moves, but when Terry first meets Randy and they have their bit of banter, darlin and speed and Maryland or bantering.

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It's really funny. I think the writing is pretty crisp and sharp here, at least until it starts to get a little bogged down in the plot. The characters themselves are pretty enjoyable though.
Even speed? I'm not sure I get speed.
If you had not told me that speed was alpha from the little rascals, I would never have guessed. I didn't know what his real name was.

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When I was writing these notes, I kind of was tempted to write jughead every time I saw him. Even though he seemed to have two girls fighting over him, he just seemed to be the oddball character in the group.
And yet he was he was the main character. He was Randy's best friend. He was the object of desire between two women who obviously could have done better.
He's not funny. I'll tell you that. But when Maryland reacts to him, that's funny.

(42:56):
Yeah, Maryland probably has the best lines in this movie. I like her. I know that they made her pine over Randy and that was never going to work out, but she should have an off at college making something of herself becoming a writer.
Back when we talked about drag strip girl, I mentioned because I read somewhere that motorcycle gain was pretty much a rewrite of that. And while it's close and the main idea is similar, it's very, very different.

(43:20):
But I read was that Steve Tarell and John Ashley kind of traded places in motorcycle gang. And that's not the case at all.
No, Steve Tarell is a bad guy here. Yeah, he was the good guy in drag strip girl, but John Ashley isn't even worse guy.
Here he's a murderer, but Steve Tarell's character is also worse than he was in drag strip girl. Yeah, yeah.
But then he's the hero. And Carl Spitzer here takes over for Frank Gorshin in drag strip girl. He's not as enjoyable to watch.

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No, definitely not. Frank Gorshin was before his most famous role here in Carl Spitzer is definitely after his most memorable role.
I think he was killed shortly after this movie was made too.
Yeah, he only made one more film after motorcycle gang. We got Raymond Hatton again who was in a lot of these 50s era movies.
Yeah, I can think of four of itself to top of my head that we have already done.

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Russ Bender as Lieutenant Joe Watson. We've seen him a few times.
He seemed really lukewarm in this movie. He didn't even seem like a real actor.
He seemed like someone had hired a cop of zero acting ability to read the lines.
Either he just wasn't into it or something else was going on in his life, but his performance is very weak here.
We have Eddie Caffafian who he's seen before. He had a small part in Shake Roll and Rock and a couple of others.

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A key Aliang who played Cyrus. We will not see any more AIP, but he's been everywhere. He's still working today.
He does a lot of one off television appearances.
He was good this movie. I liked his character. I wish we'd seen more of him because he wasn't just the guy complaining that nobody was in the movie.
The guy complaining that nobody ever buys his food. He was a real character. He was part of the racing community. I liked that.

(44:58):
I don't think they just made a mysterious type.
He has the only non-white character in the entire movie or actor they could have, but he's just seemed like one of the guys.
Well, better than most of them, honestly.
He was one of my favorite characters, the other being Birdie.
I don't know. She's just eating all the time.
It's such a dumb gag, but she seems to be really into it. She's doing it with much conviction.

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They make all those jokes that are expensive. She's not really overweight.
She's a little plump, but not much more than Anne Neeland.
We also have Edmund Cobb, who we just saw in a recent episode, Girls in Prison, as one of the prison guards.
So that's episode. He has a lot more to do here.
And of course, Paul Blaisdell has Don De Atville, man, who we in this not just just called Paul Blaisdell,

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because he's got a very recognizable face.
And he's obviously famous for doing much more than bit parts.
He made the monster in it conquer the world.
And she creatures.
Many, many more.
The main story in this movie, I'm glad it was as short as it was, but I think it could have even been shorter.
There wasn't as much motorcycle riding as we thought there was after we watched it the first time.

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I thought a good chunk of the movie was spent watching them race, but that's not true.
We're working here with another Lou Rousseff script. And he would script a lot of movies for AIP into the early 60s.
He co-wrote Beach Party.
He also did the one we did last week, which was Girls in Prison.
It was the entire same crew. It was the same director, the same writer, and the same producer.
Right. And at least in these early films, you can kind of see a style Lou Rousseff has.

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Another one that he wrote that were con directed was Shake Rellen Rock.
And there was the character in there that's certainly Halloween played, who talked only in slang.
And we couldn't interpret it by you saying half the time.
And at least here, they had speed. He was making up his own slang, but he's had to explain it because he was the only one who understood it.
What is the point of making up words when you have to explain what they mean?

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It takes a lot longer to say small, you know, sharp doll. And it does say you're a sharp doll.
Just a really goofy affect.
Yeah, I wonder if any of these are actual real words that Lou Rousseff picked up or if he's trying to invent something.
I think he was trying to play it being hip without having any concept of what being hip would actually entail.

(47:14):
So he's making it up. Yeah, that's what I think.
And he has to explain it because he knows he doesn't write for the layman.
Do you mean by that anyone who isn't Lou Rousseff?
Yes.
Unfortunately, there wasn't anybody who explained sterling Halloween speech in Shake Rellen Rock.
What did we do? Do we either just let it flow over us or did we just sit there and ponder until something made sense?
I think we interpreted the best of our ability with a disclaimer.

(47:38):
Yeah, but that's not the only time we've ever had to sit there and think on some slang before we understood what they were trying to say.
I'm thinking of the monkey hustle, also very slangy.
Good point.
I'm wondering if it was a general decision or it just worked out that way to pronounce the word as motorcycle.
I don't know.
Honestly, I don't recall hearing a lot of people say that all the time.

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They might make a joke of the car or sickle cats, but is that how they always pronounce it every single time?
Well, they call them sickles in the wild angels, at least in the trailer.
I don't know if they ever refer to them and the movie itself.
I don't remember that or just called them their bikes.
Yeah.
What do you think of Ann Neeland in this?
I thought she was fine.
I was comparing her to face pain and drag strip girl because of all the other parallels and I like face pain better.

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Really, I think I like Ann Neeland better. She seems a lot more driven.
She's more concerned about herself and everyone tries to get her on their side, but she's on her own side.
Yeah, she's kind of a bad girl.
She doesn't do anything bad though.
She's not even letting these guys go.
No, but she wants to.
Every time these guys go in for a kiss, she's like, no.
They don't even get to kiss her.

(48:47):
No, she likes Mandy well enough, but Nick is the one who's really revving her engine.
It's not for romantic reasons, though.
It's his attitude.
Right, I'm saying she wants to be the bad girl the way he's the bad boy.
But what does that mean for her?
It doesn't mean sleeping with them.
I'm not saying that at all.
I'm just saying she wants to be the tough, techno crap.
Break the law if needed.
Yeah, she's rebellious type.

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It's just when anyone refers to bad girls in movies, it means they are loose.
They sleep around.
So for her being bad means something totally different.
But the guys wanted to be bad in that first way.
She's not having it.
I don't know.
I kind of thought she was a little too gong-ho sometimes.
But the fact that she was really driven for her own self, looking at her own future,

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and how she wanted to live her life her way, I liked that a lot better.
Face Spain's character seemed a lot more wishy-washy.
Well, she was.
She was more of an aw-shocks kind of girl.
All right, lucky to have these two guys fighting over me.
And Neelan was kind of like, well, I am enjoying this.
Well, she enjoyed it too much because she had liked Mandy, but she wanted Mandy to be somebody he wasn't.
Oh, yeah.

(49:51):
So she orchestrated this whole situation to make Randy into the guy that she wanted.
That is really bad.
That's where she's the bad girl.
She's kind of careless with other people's feelings.
So yeah, she's a bad girl.
I get it now.
So, Sheryl, are you ready to rate motorcycle gang using our AIP scale where A is awesome,
IA is intermediate, and P is pathetic?

(50:13):
I liked motorcycle gang.
I liked it better than drag strip girl.
One thing we didn't bring up was John Ashley.
But we have seen in a bunch of movies.
We've seen him in the beach party movies.
He was in the Savage Sisters.
And he's back here in these racing movies.
And I liked them in the Savage Sisters.
And Attack of the Eye Creatures.
Well, the Eye Creatures.
But I don't think I've ever disliked him more than I do in this movie.

(50:35):
He's really annoying, but apart from John Ashley being in this movie, I enjoyed it.
I really enjoyed the banter between the young people, the motorcycle racing.
Didn't really seem to figure into it.
He's more of the rivalry happening, the love triangle.
So that part kept me interested.
The fact that the racing actually was kind of kept to a minimum helped.
I think I want to give this an A.

(50:57):
I think it's just lively enough to keep your interest.
And I think it could have been shorter, but it's not so long that you're starting to look at your watch
and wondering when will this be over.
It wraps up pretty neatly.
What grade would you give it?
Well, I too enjoyed this movie.
I don't think I liked it as well as drag strip girl.
I don't remember what rating I gave that movie though.
I'm going to guess an A, but I don't know.
I do notice that I'm less judgmental of the films as we go through this podcast than I was at the beginning.

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But I did think this was a lot of fun.
The things I didn't like I already talked about.
I didn't think the character's speed was all that Lou Rusoff must have thought he was.
And I do agree that you need some sort of comic relief to offset the tension.
But I think that Maryland's one-liners did a much better job.
Oh, yeah.
Because she was so snarky.
And I thought she brought out the best in Terry rather than the two guys.

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Yeah, I think some of Terry's best lines were brought on by Maryland's actions.
Your mother doesn't like me.
That's what the planet itself is pretty straightforward.
There's no surprises here.
I didn't expect Randy to die when he wrote off the bridge.
But I thought he'd be injured.
He had like nothing wrong with him.
It looked like he landed on his head.
I said he went to the hospital, but yeah, no scars.

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No mark.
Nope.
You should have at least had broken a finger or something.
But in a sling.
Because that was quite a tumble.
And again, we have no idea how much time passed.
But there are still in the same racing window.
We'll see him again and run away daughters.
And we've got a lot of John Ashley to go, I think.
Oh, hopefully it's more of the savage sisters, John Ashley.
It's mostly Beach Party, John Ashley.

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And we have Raymond Hatton here.
And probably one of the least memorable parts we'll see him in.
Right.
He doesn't have much to do here.
He's not really a standout character.
He plays the same character basically in every movie, but his part just doesn't have anything
to do.
So I'm going to give this movie an A. I think it's more than deserving of a watch.
And I think it's a lot of fun.

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