Les démons de la violence

I saw this in a theater when it came out, but I wasn't sitting with the audience, I was running the projectors. Every other biker film had come through there so I had seen them all. I didn't notice it at the time, but the dialog in this one is pretty well written. Jeremy Slate, that B movie bad guy who would show up in a big production once in a while, wrote the screenplay and he did a pretty good job.

The acting is hit or miss, since some of the important roles were played by people who weren't professional actors. A few of them spoke some funny lines which may have been improvs by the players. Those players were famous in their own right since they were Oakland Hell's Angels. The line by Tiny, "You know what? Mark it onna map fo'us" cracked me up and that was the second funny line he had spoken. Earlier in the story, he said of his aunt, "She thinks I'm still matriculatin' at Stanford."

The story and the dialog were quite a cut above what is usually on display in biker flicks. I liked this one better 54 years later when I saw it for the second time.