Heavenly Blues (Peter Fonda) is the leader of the motorcycle gang Angels from San Pedro, California. He and his best friend Joe 'Loser' Kerns (Bruce Dern) lead the gang on a search for Loser's stolen bike. Mike 'Monkey' (Nancy Sinatra) is Blues' lady. Gaysh (Diane Ladd) is Loser's wife.

This Roger Corman flick dives into the counter culture war. It is the presumed inspiration for Peter Fonda to write Easy Rider. The Nazi paraphernalia may be off-putting but rather fitting. It has a simplicity to the plot, the characters, and the style of the movie. It's too bad that Sinatra is a better actor. It's interesting that the other three leads are so much better. I also don't like the bongo music which is more of a hippie thing. It would have been great if Corman had an epic song for the epic funeral party. Overall, this is a fascinating piece of biker movie genre.

This film is a wonderful example of how writer/director/producer Roger Corman had a knack out of making cheap films that made lots of money. Oddly, of all his MANY credits, apparently only one of his films lost money--and, even more oddly, it was one of his best films! Here with "Wild Angels" you have essentially a crap film with some actors who later became famous--and it made a fortune. Corman must have laughed himself silly with this one!!

Bruce Dern, Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra was all members of the Angels--a sort of biker 'club'. For 1966, they were a pretty scary and tough bunch--though compared to some of the biker films that followed (such as "Satan's Sadists"), they are a relatively mellow group. Sure, they have gang fights, rapes, drug use and altercations with the cops, but otherwise they are all relatively clean-cut thugs with swastikas bedecking practically everything! Early in the film, the gang is having a friendly rumble with a Hispanic gang. After a bit of eye-gouging and the like, the cops show and try to catch the fun-loving guys. One of them (Dern) is eventually caught--and in the process he's very badly hurt. The gang of braniacs decide to break in to the hospital and rescuing them. In the process, the critically injured Dern dies--I guess unplugging him from all the equipment was a bad idea after all! This leads to a lovely funeral sendoff at which time the gang runs amok--destroying a church. In a case of HEAVY padding, this sequence seems to go on and on and on--mostly to stretch the film to full-length and to shock the viewers. It literally makes up almost half the film with the various sacrilegious activities that occur there (including a rape--which, fortunately, is implied and not shown in any detail) and at the grave site. I think the padding is so bad that I frankly found most of this pretty boring!

All in all, it's a film in search of a plot--which, sadly, it seems to lack. A gang fights, a leader dies, they fight some more...end of story....and Corman laughing all the way to the bank since a lot of kids went to see this bilge with one-dimensional characters. Now I am not anti-biker film--I just want to see a good one, which this is not.

In Venice, California, the leader of Hell's Angels Heavenly Blues (Peter Fonda) tells his friend Joe 'Loser' Kearns (Bruce Dern) that he had located his stolen motorcycle in Mecca. While trying to retrieve the bike, Loser is shot on the back by a police patrol end goes to the hospital. After the surgery, Blues and the Hell's Angels take Loser from the hospital and he dies. The troublemakers prepare his funeral at Sequoia Groves with a wild party.

"The Wild Angels" is among the worst movies I have ever seen. This trash directed by Roger Corman is a dated mess with terrible performances, unlikable characters completely lost and a pointless screenplay. The bikers request the service of the preacher to destroy the church? Blues interrupts the preacher's speech to say shallow words but when the Hell's Angels are ready to bury Loser, he says no words to his best friend. The story has the only objective of shocking the audience with rapes, sacrilege and stupid and senseless violence. My vote is one (awful).

Title (Brazil): "Os Anjos Selvagens" ("The Wild Angels")