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Friday, February 21, 2020

WILD REBELS (1967)

Low rent motorcycle gang nonsense starring singer Steve Alaimo as stock car racer Rod Tillman who, having crashed too many cars and run out of money, gets recruited by the cops to infiltrate a rather pathetic gang of cycle driving losers who plan to improve their financial lot by robbing a bank. The gang calls itself, no kidding, Satan's Angels, the membership of which consists of three guys suffering from possible walking brain death and a sleazy chick (Bobbie Byers) who's just in it for the kicks, baby, kicks.

Mayhem ensues when the gang robs the First National Bank in Citrus Grove, California. Tillman signals the cops who follow in frenzied pursuit as the gang takes refuge in an abandoned lighthouse. After much cinematic carnage, the male members have all gone to their eternal reward. Or eternal punishment, depending on your particular spiritual outlook. The sleazy chick, however, having reconsidered her lifestyle choices at the last minute, sides with Tillman and the cops and manages to survive the aforementioned carnage, only to be promptly arrested and carried off to jail. Tillman walks off into the sunset with one of the cops. Kicks, baby, kicks.

Steve Alaimo sings two songs before this is all over. Additional music from The Bird Watchers. Also starring Willie Pastrano as Banjo, John Vella as Jeeter, and Jeff Gillen as Fats. Directed by William Grefe.


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