Freshly divorced from American-International Pictures, Roger Corman leaps into the filmic mainstream with a fairly large-scale World War One aviation picture. He competes with the big studios but retains his nonconformist attitude: his retelling of the story of the Red Baron fixates on the theme of the death of chivalry in combat. For his star player Corman picks John Phillip Law, whose on-screen persona is a good fit for one of the first warrior aces of the sky.
Von Richthofen and Brown
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1971 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date May 21, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave, Stephen McHattie, Hurd Hatfield
Robert La Tourneaux, Ferdy Mayne, Peter Masterson, Clint Kimbrough, George Armitage.
Cinematography: Michael Reed
Film Editor: Alan Collins
Original Music: Hugo Friedhofer
Written by John William Corrington, Joyce H. Corrington
Produced by Gene Corman, Jimmy T. Murakami
Directed by...
Von Richthofen and Brown
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1971 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date May 21, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave, Stephen McHattie, Hurd Hatfield
Robert La Tourneaux, Ferdy Mayne, Peter Masterson, Clint Kimbrough, George Armitage.
Cinematography: Michael Reed
Film Editor: Alan Collins
Original Music: Hugo Friedhofer
Written by John William Corrington, Joyce H. Corrington
Produced by Gene Corman, Jimmy T. Murakami
Directed by...
- 5/14/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Lee Madden, best known for directing Hell’s Angels ‘69, died of complications from pneumonia on April 9 in Camarillo, a town north of Los Angeles. He was 82. The American International Pictures release Hell’s Angels ‘69, the tale of two brothers who plan on robbing Las Vegas’ Caesar’s Palace, was the Brooklyn-born Madden’s first feature. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it is the only fiction film in which the Oakland Hell’s Angels, including leader Sonny Barger, appeared. Madden’s other features were the bikers vs. rednecks adaptation of The Magnificent Seven, Angel Unchained (1970), starring Tyne Daly and Don Stroud, and which Madden also wrote and produced; The Night God Screamed (1971), starring 1940s Fox star Jeanne Crain as a woman pursued by Christian fanatics; and Night Creature (1978), a horror thriller featuring Donald Pleasence, Nancy Kwan, and a killer leopard. Madden also directed episodes of a handful of television series in the ’70s,...
- 4/15/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Filmmaker Lee Madden, who directed cult movie Hells Angels '69, has died. He was 82.
Madden passed away on Thursday in Camarillo, California after suffering complications from pneumonia.
He shot to fame with his 1969 debut, which starred the real Oakland Hell's Angels and was the only fiction film in which the gang ever participated.
His other directing credits included 1970's Angel Unchained and 1971's The Night God Screamed.
Among Madden's survivors is a son, David.
Madden passed away on Thursday in Camarillo, California after suffering complications from pneumonia.
He shot to fame with his 1969 debut, which starred the real Oakland Hell's Angels and was the only fiction film in which the gang ever participated.
His other directing credits included 1970's Angel Unchained and 1971's The Night God Screamed.
Among Madden's survivors is a son, David.
- 4/15/2009
- WENN
Director Lee Madden has died at age 82. The filmmaker passed away in Camarillo, California on Thursday, April 9 after suffering complications from pneumonia.
Madden was famous for directing cult movie "Hells Angels '69" for American International Pictures. It was his debut film which featured the real Oakland's Hell's Angels and was the only movie the gang ever partook in.
Madden's other film credits include "Angel Unchained," "The Night God Screamed" and "Night Creature." He also directed several episodes of the 1970s TV series "Cade's County" starring Glenn Ford, "Bearcats!" and "The Most Deadly Game" featuring Ralph Bellamy.
Madden's company, Lee Madden Associates, worked as a major supplier of television commercials and industrial films, with his major clients being automobile companies.
Madden was famous for directing cult movie "Hells Angels '69" for American International Pictures. It was his debut film which featured the real Oakland's Hell's Angels and was the only movie the gang ever partook in.
Madden's other film credits include "Angel Unchained," "The Night God Screamed" and "Night Creature." He also directed several episodes of the 1970s TV series "Cade's County" starring Glenn Ford, "Bearcats!" and "The Most Deadly Game" featuring Ralph Bellamy.
Madden's company, Lee Madden Associates, worked as a major supplier of television commercials and industrial films, with his major clients being automobile companies.
- 4/15/2009
- icelebz.com
Lee Madden, who directed the cult film "Hell's Angels '69," died of complications from pneumonia on Thursday in Camarillo, Calif. He was 82.
Madden's first film was the 1969 release "Hell's Angels" for American International Pictures. The film starred the real Oakland Hell's Angels, including Sonny Barger, then the president of the Angels. It was the only fiction film in which the gang ever participated.
The film has been recently redeveloped as a potential remake at Sony.
Among Madden's other feature directing credits were 1970's "Angel Unchained," a biker remake of "The Magnificent Seven" that starred Tyne Daly and Don Stroud that he also wrote and produced; "The Night God Screamed" (1971), starring 1940s icon Jeanne Crain; and "Night Creature" (1978), starring Donald Pleasence.
The Brooklyn native also directed episodes of 1970s TV series including "Cade's County" starring Glenn Ford, "Bearcats!" starring Rod Taylor and "The Most Deadly Game" starring Ralph Bellamy.
His company,...
Madden's first film was the 1969 release "Hell's Angels" for American International Pictures. The film starred the real Oakland Hell's Angels, including Sonny Barger, then the president of the Angels. It was the only fiction film in which the gang ever participated.
The film has been recently redeveloped as a potential remake at Sony.
Among Madden's other feature directing credits were 1970's "Angel Unchained," a biker remake of "The Magnificent Seven" that starred Tyne Daly and Don Stroud that he also wrote and produced; "The Night God Screamed" (1971), starring 1940s icon Jeanne Crain; and "Night Creature" (1978), starring Donald Pleasence.
The Brooklyn native also directed episodes of 1970s TV series including "Cade's County" starring Glenn Ford, "Bearcats!" starring Rod Taylor and "The Most Deadly Game" starring Ralph Bellamy.
His company,...
- 4/14/2009
- by By Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Aaron Hillis
Born in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey, Larry Bishop (son of Rat Pack comic Joey Bishop) began his acting career after high school, working in comedy with friends like Rob Reiner and Richard Dreyfuss. Though he's guest-starred on TV sitcoms like "Laverne & Shirley," "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Barney Miller," Bishop is far better known for being a drive-in theater badass, appearing as an American International Pictures contract player in wild-and-wooly biker flicks like 1968's "The Savage Seven" and 1971's "Chrome and Hot Leather." On an acting hiatus after 1983 (more on that later), Bishop returned to the screen in the mid-'90s with new credits to his name, writing the script for "Underworld" and making his directorial debut, "Mad Dog Time."
Enter exploitation film guru Quentin Tarantino. Understandably a fan of Bishop's Aip years, Tarantino cast him in a bit part for the second volume of "Kill Bill,...
Born in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey, Larry Bishop (son of Rat Pack comic Joey Bishop) began his acting career after high school, working in comedy with friends like Rob Reiner and Richard Dreyfuss. Though he's guest-starred on TV sitcoms like "Laverne & Shirley," "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Barney Miller," Bishop is far better known for being a drive-in theater badass, appearing as an American International Pictures contract player in wild-and-wooly biker flicks like 1968's "The Savage Seven" and 1971's "Chrome and Hot Leather." On an acting hiatus after 1983 (more on that later), Bishop returned to the screen in the mid-'90s with new credits to his name, writing the script for "Underworld" and making his directorial debut, "Mad Dog Time."
Enter exploitation film guru Quentin Tarantino. Understandably a fan of Bishop's Aip years, Tarantino cast him in a bit part for the second volume of "Kill Bill,...
- 8/8/2008
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- The moribund corpse of grindhouse cinema gets jolted back to life courtesy of the Weinstein brothers and Quentin Tarantino, but the biker movie Hell Ride doesn't appear any more theatrically viable than when Planet Terror and Death Proof were jointly released last year.
Executive producer Tarantino tapped former biker-flick bad boy Larry Bishop to write, direct, produce and star in this genre homage, scheduled to roar to life from Dimension Films sometime this year before undoubtedly sputtering out once its fanboy base is quickly exhausted.
The jumbled story line centers on Pistolero (Bishop), leader of the self-styled Victors biker gang that is bent on retaliation for the murder of a fellow member by the rival 666's, fronted by the notorious Billy Wings (Vinnie Jones). With his trusted lieutenant, the Gent (Michael Madsen), riding alongside and the addition of new recruit Comanche (Eric Balfour), the Victors rumble out to exact their revenge.
Along the way, much tough talk is exchanged, naked and nearly nude women are groped and ravished and generous amounts of violence are unleashed. Frequent flashbacks sketchily outline Pistolero's personal history, in which Comanche seems to take an undue interest. All the scheming supposedly is leading to a big payoff that might be vaguely compelling if the stakes were remotely clear.
Bishop, a veteran star of several '60s and '70s biker movies -- including The Savage Seven, Angel Unchained and Chrome and Hot Leather -- summons the requisite bombast to pull off this genre exercise straight-faced.
Perfunctorily exaggerated performances (including a couple of amusing appearances by Dennis Hopper and David Carradine), period-specific zooms, swish pans and other visual tropes as well as a born-to-ride soundtrack help the film evince a degree of vitality.
But even on its own terms, Hell Ride lacks sufficient substance to be of more than quickly passing interest for all but the most devoted fans.
HELL RIDE
Dimension Films
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Larry Bishop
Producers: Michael Steinberg, Shana Stein, Larry Bishop
Executive producers: Quentin Tarantino, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein
Director of photography: Scott Kevan
Production designer: Tim Grimes
Music: Daniele Luppi
Editors: Blake West, William Yeh
Cast:
Pistolero: Larry Bishop
The Gent: Michael Madsen
Comanche: Eric Balfour
Billy Wings: Vinnie Jones
Dennis Hopper: Eddie Zero
Running time -- 83 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- The moribund corpse of grindhouse cinema gets jolted back to life courtesy of the Weinstein brothers and Quentin Tarantino, but the biker movie Hell Ride doesn't appear any more theatrically viable than when Planet Terror and Death Proof were jointly released last year.
Executive producer Tarantino tapped former biker-flick bad boy Larry Bishop to write, direct, produce and star in this genre homage, scheduled to roar to life from Dimension Films sometime this year before undoubtedly sputtering out once its fanboy base is quickly exhausted.
The jumbled story line centers on Pistolero (Bishop), leader of the self-styled Victors biker gang that is bent on retaliation for the murder of a fellow member by the rival 666's, fronted by the notorious Billy Wings (Vinnie Jones). With his trusted lieutenant, the Gent (Michael Madsen), riding alongside and the addition of new recruit Comanche (Eric Balfour), the Victors rumble out to exact their revenge.
Along the way, much tough talk is exchanged, naked and nearly nude women are groped and ravished and generous amounts of violence are unleashed. Frequent flashbacks sketchily outline Pistolero's personal history, in which Comanche seems to take an undue interest. All the scheming supposedly is leading to a big payoff that might be vaguely compelling if the stakes were remotely clear.
Bishop, a veteran star of several '60s and '70s biker movies -- including The Savage Seven, Angel Unchained and Chrome and Hot Leather -- summons the requisite bombast to pull off this genre exercise straight-faced.
Perfunctorily exaggerated performances (including a couple of amusing appearances by Dennis Hopper and David Carradine), period-specific zooms, swish pans and other visual tropes as well as a born-to-ride soundtrack help the film evince a degree of vitality.
But even on its own terms, Hell Ride lacks sufficient substance to be of more than quickly passing interest for all but the most devoted fans.
HELL RIDE
Dimension Films
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Larry Bishop
Producers: Michael Steinberg, Shana Stein, Larry Bishop
Executive producers: Quentin Tarantino, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein
Director of photography: Scott Kevan
Production designer: Tim Grimes
Music: Daniele Luppi
Editors: Blake West, William Yeh
Cast:
Pistolero: Larry Bishop
The Gent: Michael Madsen
Comanche: Eric Balfour
Billy Wings: Vinnie Jones
Dennis Hopper: Eddie Zero
Running time -- 83 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/26/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Following their successful collaboration in Kill Bill-Vol. 2, Quentin Tarantino is set to team again with Larry Bishop, the actor who played the foul-mouthed owner of a strip club in the hit movie. Tarantino and Bishop will produce Hell Ride, a motorcycle movie that Bishop is writing and will direct and star in. Sources say Tarantino might star in the movie as well. Michael Madsen, who also starred in Bill, is attached to star in what is being described as a spaghetti biker film. The story deals with the characters Pistolero (Bishop), the Gent (Madsen) and Comanche (Tarantino) and the deadly unfinished business between them. As befitting the genre, the budget would be low, and the movie would shoot in August or September. It is unclear whether Tarantino would produce under his A Band Apart productions shingle or his Rolling Thunder Pictures. Bishop starred in several biker movies in the late '60s and early '70s, including The Savage Seven, Chrome and Hot Leather and Angel Unchained. He also wrote, directed, co-produced and starred in 1996's Mad Dog Time, whose cast included Diane Lane, Gabriel Byrne and Burt Reynolds. He is repped by the Coppage Co. Tarantino is repped by WMA, while Madsen by Writers and Artists Group International.
- 5/17/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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