Fascinating early staring role for Jack Nicholson, as he plays a young gas station attendant who discovers the wild side of life. Joining the Hells Angels, young Jack soon learns a few lessons in life, drugs, death, and sex from the unruly Angels, and the movie races towards an inexorable conclusion that has danger written all over it.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - English
Distributor Notes: When he loses his job, gas station attendant Poet (Academy Award-winner Jack Nicholson) falls in with a rough band of Hells Angels who terrorize Northern California in a hellraising frenzy of parties and gang fights. Choppers, drugs, sex, murder and mayhem ensue as Poet and gang leader Buddy (Adam Roarke) head down a dark road to danger. From acclaimed cult director Richard Rush (The Stunt Man) with cinematography by the legendary Lßszl= Kovßcs (Easy Rider, Paper Moon) and music by Stu Phillips (Battlestar Gallactica, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls).
Source: Image Entertainment, Inc.
Sorry, this product does not have this type of information.
Review 1:
"[T]his is certainly an artifact of an age, photographed by Leslie Kovacs, who became one of Hollywood's best cinematographers."
Source: USA Today
p.4E 01/02/2004
Review 2:
"..[With] sprightly cinematography..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.61 02/01/2001