Angel Unchained

MGM's latest installment of the Midnite Movies gives us a double feature of late sixties biker films. In Angel Unchained, biker Angel gives up his colors to go on his own. On his way to finding himself he runs into A couple hippies hassled by some goobery dune buggy people. Of course he takes the hippies' side because one of them is a young Tyne Daly, and next thing you know, the fight over the lettuce patch begins at the hippie compound to the point where Angel's old bros need to be called in (note: in the pacing of the film he finds them awful fast... were they around the block pretending not to follow him, or what?). High points are the Aldo Ray scene as an older sheriff presiding over a parking lot brawl, and Daly as the love interest- she had that street smart timbre to her voice even back then which lends a credibility in the scene of her botched attack. Flippin the disc, we have Bruce Dern in "Cycle Savages", a much smaller and more soundstagey (read: cheap) film than "Angel Unchained". Dern hams it up to the point where I think that perhaps they told him the plot and he just impovised his lines- it's a fun thing to watch. This film is so bleak it would make Hubert Selby, Jr. drink Clorox. There is A likeable character in this film, and even he comes off as a dolt. A starving artist draws a bunch of biker sketches (hello:dum idea) and they decide to come up with a way to hurt him by having a mongolian cluster and raping a girl with an ice cream cone. (...no, excuse me. She's having an ice cream cone and they take her back and rape her. That would just be sick.) So, anyway, they come up with an idea for hurting him at the same time the bike gang's leader is using the downstair's neighbor as a tail for the artist because her sister is being sent down the road of brain control and depravity by the leader, but she's falling in love with the artist...you see where this is heading. So, "Angel Unchained" is a much better film of the two, but you'll like "Cycle Savages" if you like your soap operas with a good chain whupping time and again (I'd like to see that on "Days of Our Lives". Thanx.

Great Drive-In fodder from 69 and 70. Cycle Savages, Bruce Dern early in his career doing what he does best, playing psychos. A post F-Troop Melody Patterson (Wrangler Jane) and her new artist boyfriend go up against Hollywood's idea of a biker gang. The over acting is at its best, a real must see. The second movie is more of the same with a very young Tyne Daly starring. The people who wrote these scripts really did not have a clue. Just great Drive-In B movie entertainment.

Cycle Savages is a great drive in classic. Bruce Dern is outstanding. The following line from his character Keeg is forever enshrined: "We got to come up with a way to cut off that artists hands." Therefore it's better than nothing since this movie is a must-have for Bruce Dern fans like me.

I liked unchained angel. It was a really good flick. As for cycle savage,I did not like as much.I would buy this dvd ,because unchained angel is really worth it.

This movie was viewed by me as being a fashion statement from the era inwhich it was produced. Having been a biker as far back as 1967, I can reflect on the dress code for the movie as well as the motorcycles used as being accurate. I enjoy watching this movie DVD.

Classic biker movies, I remember as a kid going to the movies to see these & others for 50 cents and watch all day long over & over, don't see days like that no more!

Classic and Corny but good.

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According to the DVD case, Angel Unchained was the first motorcycle film made after Easy Rider. But this isn't anywhere in the league of Easy Rider. There are some comical scenes here - like when the Sherriff and the MC President oversee the fight. I thought the commune plot made the film rather corny. Those hippies seemed rather apathetic when it came to protecting their commune. Only their leader and the girl Angel liked seemed to care. There are some good group highway riding scenes however and some sweet bikes. It's funny to watch how those big bikers - some who were over 6 feet tall - seemed so squished on their bikes which had small displacement engines back then compared to now. The film progresses to some actual songs from just the usual cheesy background music in most biker films. They're not rock but rather folk. Some of the scenes they're used in however make the scene quite corny.Cycle Savages involves a wannabe MC. This is a MC of about 5 who seem to only ride around their neighbourhood. I swear some of the riding scenes were repeats around that same street corner! I found the artist pathetic and a lousy actor. Actually most were lousy actors and actresses. Bruce Dern however carries the movie. Bruce's character is the only one who even looks like a MC member. The others look like "pretty" boys. And what MC member wears a white sweatshirt!? Please. The movie is worth watching for Dern's acting which you can tell was embelished as one of the other reviewers pointed out.If you're a collector of cheesy 60s and 70s biker movies, this one should be added to the collection, if only b/c Angel Unchained was the first motorcycle movie after Easy Rider and for Dern's fun acting in Cycle Savage's.

Real good!

Was not as entertaining as I remembered.(probably I am spoiled by today's films)Cycle Savages had very little to do with bikes.

Nice bikes

What can I say more Bikersploitation films in the same old mould. There is nothing new to see here and should only be purchased to complete a collection or if you have lost the will to live.