Angels Hard as They Come
Angels Hard as They Come is a 1971 film from the USA, directed by Joe Viola, running 85 minutes. reelscum files it under biker.
- Year
- 1971 · 1970s films
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Director
- Joe Viola
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (51/100)
Defined in the glossary: Biker
Jonathan Demme's first script, produced by Corman. Rashomon on bikes.
Jonathan Demme's first produced screenplay, for Roger Corman, and essentially Rashomon on motorcycles. A biker gang and a group of hippies clash at a ghost town, a girl ends up dead, and the film replays the events from conflicting perspectives, which is more ambition than the cycle usually showed.
Demme and Joe Viola bring a countercultural intelligence to the formula, and you can see a real filmmaker learning the trade inside the exploitation machine. It is smarter than the average biker picture, if still very much one.
An early credit for a future great, and a cut above its stablemates.
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