I’ve read Sonny Bargers book several times. If you haven’t seen it, its a pretty campy flick about the late 60s 1%’er motorcycle culture, but worth watching. It was another Roger Corman funded film, and quite honestly set the stage for Easy Rider.
BILLY BIKE EASY RIDER MOVIE
Before Easy Rider, Peter Fonda made a movie a year before Easy Rider was even an Idea called the Wild Angels. The rumor was, is that the Hells Angels stole it to repay a “debt” in their eyes. Guns were involved and a recovery was unsuccessful. Tex Hall was the stuntman on the movie, and the story goes he went after the guys who stole the bikes to recover them. They completed the movie without the bikes. Then, before filming was completed the remaining three bikes were stolen. Turns out, he sold a lot of “original” Captain America’s, and I question his credibility. I love Grizzly Adams, but his stories are all over the place. The backup captain America bike was pretty much destroyed by the ending scene, and what was left of it was given to Dan Haggerty. Two were made for filming, and the other two were backups. 49 though 51 Police Panheads, Bought at auction and customized for the low budget movie Easy Rider by local LA bike builders Ben Hardy and Cliff Vaughs. We know this: There were four bikes made for Easy Rider. Who Stole them? I gotta think that someone out there, knows what happened. Before filming concluded, the remaining 3 bikes were stolen. The Billy bike, while less famous was also made. It produced the arguably most famous and iconic bike of all time, the Captain America chopper. People would say, 'Wow, Terry Southern co-wrote that.Easy Rider was filmed Starting in late February of 1968. Having him with us as a writer on the script put it above periscope depth. Peter Fonda said of Southern's contributions, "He gave us dark humor and a literary panache that Dennis and I did not have. Well, one of them was the producer and other was the director, so there was no way the Writers Guild was going to allow them to take a screenplay credit unless I insisted." Not listening to the WGA, Southern allowed them to have their credits on the film, which was largely improvised. He said that he and Dennis liked the film so much, they wanted to be in on the screenplay credits. After they had seen a couple of screenings of it on the coast, I got a call from Peter.
In an interview with Creative Screenwriting, Southern claimed, "Peter was to be the actor and producer, Dennis the actor and director, and a certain yours truly, the writer. In an interview with The Guardian, Dennis Hopper claimed that Terry Southern wrote nothing in the film besides contributing the title, as he broke his hip in a fall.
BILLY BIKE EASY RIDER FULL
Some of the scenes which were in the original cut, but got deleted are: The original opening showing Wyatt and Billy performing in a Los Angeles stunt show (their real jobs), the two of them being ripped off by the promoter, getting in a biker fight, picking up women at a drive-in, cruising to, and escaping from Mexico to score the cocaine they sell, an elaborate police and helicopter chase that took place at the beginning after the dope deal, with police chasing Wyatt and Billy over mountains, and across the Mexican border, the road trip out of Los Angeles, edited to the full length of Steppenwolf's ''Born to Be Wild'' with billboards along the way offering wry commentary, Wyatt and Billy being pulled over by a cop while driving their motorcycles across highway, two of them encountering the black motorcycle gang, ten additional minutes for the volatile café scene in Louisiana, where George deftly keeps the peace, Wyatt and Billy checking in a hotel before going over to Madam Tinkertoy's, extended and much longer Madam Tinkertoy sequence, extended versions of all of the campfire scenes, including the enigmatic finale in which Wyatt says ''We blew it, Billy.'' All deleted footage is believed to be lost. There are various reports about exact running time of original rough cut of the movie Four hours, four and a half hours, or five hours.
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