Sunday, June 21, 2026

Tonight's Stinker: The Cycle Savages(1969)

Tonight's Stinker The Cycle Savages(1969) https://youtu.be/dRX4E7iYFMU?si=xMm6y-3kosEPys8y A group of bikers rides up to a to a drive by burger stand & order donuts & beer & make mayhem, while a clean cut guy sit & draws pictures of them.... Later at a bar, Bruce Dern, the gangs short fused leader, confronts the artist about what he's drawing..... The artist walks out, but the bartender tells Dern he has pictures of the whole gang... So the bikers meet the artist at his apartment, beat him up, take his sketches, then get the prostitute upstairs to look after him while they search his apartment.... They find the sketches, & steal a Marine sword while they're at it..... When the artist finds out, he goes to get it back, & makes quick work of the two bikers there.... The rest of the bikers are out getting a stolen bike back, then go looking for girls.... They find one, & for the next thirty minutes, the film cuts back & fourth between the artist in bed with the prostitute while the bikers get rough with the girl they found.... But Dern's constantly angry character is still fuming about the artist & how to wreck his hands.... There's also supposed to be a subplot about the bikers working for human traffickers the never gets fleshed out, & this sex ed book the artist is illustrating, & numerous other things that keep getting mentioned, but not explained.... None of this is as exciting as I described, as it mostly borrows from every biker film before it, while avoiding anything resembling a plot.....

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