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THE PINK ANGELS (1971)
Run Time: 1:21:00
Producer: Plateau Productions
Director: Larry G. Brown
Author: Margaret McPherson
Key Forged: John Alderman, Tom Basham, Henry Olek
FILM MAKERS
The Pink Angels is an oddball exploitation movie written by a lady (with no different credit to her identify), and is the one movie within the American Biker Flick style (1966-1972) to deal with a non binary motorbike gang. A campy romp full of 1 liners on sexuality, combined with a darkish undercurrent that hits heavy on the anti-establishment, anti-Vietnam politics of the time, culminating in a stunning ultimate scene. see abstract for particulars.
SUMMARY
The Pink Angels frolic up the California shoreline, on their approach to a “girls Cotillion (drag queen contest) in L.A. In the meantime, fast cuts bounce to a anonymous, maniacal navy common who’s hell-bent on finding and capturing all “lengthy hairs” on a prime secret map. Focusing on biker gangs particularly, ‘The Common’ very like Uncle Victor in Harold and Maude, is made to appear silly. Caught in a brutal, bloody previous which the hippy technology has moved past.
Within the ultimate scenes, the Pink Angels dressed totally in drag, meet a rival gang who don’t acknowledge “the broads” as their sworn enemies, and as a substitute, ask them out. They load the women onto the backs of their bikes and head to a celebration, however the navy is ready, and everybody’s hauled in for questioning. The Common probes the “gals” for incriminating filth on the bikers, however the Pink Angels refuse to unhealthy mouth the gang regardless that they’re sworn rivals. In an act of biker comradery, They voluntarily reveal that they don’t seem to be ladies in any respect…however bikers themselves…”cross dressing, biker faggots!”
One ultimate bounce minimize reveals a stunning finish. The Pink Angels hanging from a tree. Lynched not for being bikers, however for cross dressing. An finish even too brutal for The Common to inflict on the bikers he was mercilessly looking, whereas God Bless America performs and the credit roll.
Followers of homosexual cinema of the twentieth century will acknowledge this finish as all too acquainted. scenes of queer characters assembly tragic and violent ends was used for many years following the Hays code to depict homosexual characters as deviant, thus making their violent dying an ethical warning. Watch ‘The Celluloid Closet‘ for a fantastic primer on this topic.
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