The Big Book of Biker Flicks celebrates the movies that saluted bikers and their legendary lifestyles. Packed with behind-the-scenes details, pressbook tidbits, and full-color photos, it has all the hot, steamy fun of an old-fashioned movie without the horn-honking and mosquitoes! Motorcycles and movies are the perfect combination of wild, wicked pleasures.

John Wooley and Mike Price consider the canon of the chopper epic enthusiastically and thoroughly, mixing stills and promotional graphics with dead-on thumbnail plot summaries, not to mention pithily noting particular films' peculiar distinctions. Less revered and studied than blaxploitation and smut, biker movies appeared, often at drive-ins, throughout America in the 1960s and 1970s, inspiring one of the most iconic sixties-culture films, Easy Rider, many of whose actors and plot wrinkles figured earlier in the likes of Hell's Angels on Wheels, The Trip and Angels Hard as They Come, all of which Wooley and Price hail here. Besides production notes, other, less easily accessed biker-movie information Wooley and Price provide include such things as the names of the biker gangs and their leaders in each movie. That Chino (Dennis Hooper) and his gang, the Black Souls, rumbled with Darryl (Jody McCrea) and the Stompers in The Glory Stompers is the kind of niche information American culture collections shouldn't be without. Now they don't have to be.

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