|
Biker Film
This list is for films where at least one biker appears as a significant plot element. A bike in a film does not qualify for this list. Before 1960 * '' The Uncontrollable Motorcycle'' (1909) * '' Alkali Ike's Motorcycle'' (1912) * '' A Motorcycle Adventure'' (1912) * ''Mabel at the Wheel'' (1914), early Charlie Chaplin film * '' A Motorcycle Elopement'' (1915) * '' Sherlock Jr.'' (1924), Buster Keaton film with world-famous motorcycle scene * '' No Limit'' (1935), starring George Formby * '' Step On It'' (1936) * '' Call the Mesquiteers'' (1938), directed by John English, starring Robert Livingston * '' They Caught the Ferry'' (1948) * '' Once a Jolly Swagman'' (1949) * '' Full Speed Ahead'' (1951) * '' The Pace That Thrills'' (1952)balls * ''Code Two'' (1953) * ''The Wild One'' (1953) * '' An American in Rome'' (1954) * '' The Black Rider'' (1954) * '' Teenage Devil Dolls'' (1955) * ''Engaged to Death'' (1957) * ''Motorcycle Gang'' (1957) * '' Dragstrip Riot'' (1958) * '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motorcycle
A motorcycle (motorbike, bike, or trike (if three-wheeled)) is a two or three-wheeled motor vehicle steered by a handlebar. Motorcycle design varies greatly to suit a range of different purposes: long-distance travel, commuting, cruising, sport (including racing), and off-road riding. Motorcycling is riding a motorcycle and being involved in other related social activity such as joining a motorcycle club and attending motorcycle rallies. The 1885 Daimler Reitwagen made by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Germany was the first internal combustion, petroleum-fueled motorcycle. In 1894, Hildebrand & Wolfmüller became the first series production motorcycle. Globally, motorcycles are comparably popular to cars as a method of transport. In 2021, approximately 58.6 million new motorcycles were sold around the world, fewer than the 66.7 million cars sold over the same period. In 2014, the three top motorcycle producers globally by volume were Honda (28%), Yamaha (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Full Speed Ahead (1951 Film)
Full Speed Ahead may refer to: Films * ''Full Speed Ahead'' (1936 film), a 1936 British film directed by Lawrence Huntington * ''Full Speed Ahead'' (1940 film), a 1940 British film directed by John Hunt * ''Full Speed Ahead'' (1951 film), a 1951 Mexican comedy film Music * ''Full Speed Ahead'' (D.R.I. album), 1995 * ''Full Speed Ahead'', a 1990 album by Larry Mercey * ''Full Speed Ahead'' (Pain album), 1999 * ''Full Speed Ahead'' (Táta Vega album), 1976 * ''Full Speed Ahead'', a 2001 album by Autoramas Other * The nautical term ''Full speed ahead'' * The oft quoted command '' Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead'', attributed to Rear Admiral David G. Farragut {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Some People (film)
''Some People'' is a 1962 film directed by Clive Donner. It stars Kenneth More and Ray Brooks and is centred on the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme. Premise An aircraft engineer, who also acts as a voluntary choirmaster and youth worker (played by Kenneth More) tries to help a group of teenagers in Bristol, by encouraging positive social development after they lose their motorcycle licences. They are all in dead-end jobs with no home life and on the fringes of petty crime, but are musically talented. Production The film was shot entirely on location in Bristol with Anneke Wills recalling that the crew arrived in Bristol three weeks before shooting to get the feel of Bristol with the boys learning the local accent, riding motorbikes and visiting local dance halls with much of the script being ad-libbed. Local filming locations were used including the W.D. & H.O. Wills cigarette factory, Royal York Crescent, Clifton Suspension Bridge, the Theatre Royal, the Palace Hotel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivy League Killers
''Hedera'', commonly called ivy (plural ivies), is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan and Taiwan. Description On level ground they remain creeping, not exceeding 5–20 cm height, but on suitable surfaces for climbing, including trees, natural rock outcrops or man-made structures such as quarry rock faces or built masonry and wooden structures, they can climb to at least 30 m above the ground. Ivies have two leaf types, with palmately lobed juvenile leaves on creeping and climbing stems and unlobed cordate adult leaves on fertile flowering stems exposed to full sun, usually high in the crowns of trees or the tops of rock faces, from 2 m or more above ground. The juvenile and adult shoots also differ, the former being slender, flexible and scrambling or climbing with small a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hot Angel
''The Hot Angel'' is a 1958 American drama film directed by Joe Parker and written by Stanley Kallis. The film stars Jackie Loughery, Ed Kemmer, Mason Alan Dinehart, Emory Parnell, Lyle Talbot and Boyd Santell. It was released in December 1958 by Paramount Pictures. Plot Mandy Wilson runs a small air strip near the Grand Canyon. She and brother Joe are glad to see pilot Chuck Lawson, who hasn't been here in five years. Their brother Tom heroically saved Chuck's life during the Korean War. Joe has fallen in with a motorcycle gang, so Chuck is asked by Mandy to help straighten him out. Chuck is hired by uranium miner Van Richards to maintain surveillance from the air and find out who's been stealing valuable mineral deposits. He meets the bikers in Joe's gang, particularly the leaders, Judd and Mick Pfeiffer, and demonstrates his own skill on a bike while also giving flying lessons to Joe. When the thieves realize Chuck's on to them, his plane is rigged to crash. Chuck manages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragstrip Riot
A dragstrip is a facility for conducting automobile and motorcycle acceleration events such as drag racing. Although a quarter mile (1320 feet, 402 m) is the best known measure for a drag track, many tracks are eighth mile (201 m) tracks, and the premiere classes will run 1,000 foot (304.8 m) races. The race is begun from a standing start which allows three factors to affect the outcome of the race: reaction time, power/weight ratio, and traction. Features A dragstrip is a straight, purpose-built racetrack, typically an eighth, ten feet longer than three-sixteenths, or a quarter of a mile long (660/1,000/1320 feet, 201/304.8/402 m), with an additional ''shutdown area'' to allow vehicles room to stop after crossing the finish line. Common features also include a 'water box' where vehicles and motorcycles start their burnouts for tire clean-up and also to heat up their tires to improve traction. There is a set of lights known as a 'Christma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motorcycle Gang (film)
''Motorcycle Gang'' is a 1957 film which is a semi-remake of '' Dragstrip Girl''. It was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with ''Sorority Girl''. Cast *Anne Neyland as Terry Lindsay *Steve Terrell as Randy * John Ashley as Nick Rogers *Carl Switzer as Speed *Raymond Hatton as Uncle Ed * Russ Bender as Lt. Joe Watson * Jean Moorhead as Marilyn *Scott Peters as Hank *Eddie Kafafian as Jack *Shirley Falls as Darlene *Aki Aleong as Cyrus Q. Wong *Wayne Taylor as Phil Production The film was announced in March 1957. Lance Fuller was going to star. Filming was held up when star John Ashley was drafted into the army. It was shot during two weeks when he was on leave after basic training.Mark McGee, ''Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures'', McFarland, 1996 p133 The cast also included former Our Gang star Carl Switzer. Reception The ''Los Angeles Times'' called it "commendably free of unhealthy sensationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Engaged To Death
''Engaged to Death'' (Italian: ''I fidanzati della morte'') is a 1957 Italian sports drama film directed by Romolo Marcellini and starring Rik Battaglia, Sylva Koscina and Margit Nünke.Rondolino p.183 The veteran German star Hans Albers appears in a supporting role. The film portrays the lives of top motorcycle racing competitors. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carlo Egidi. It was shot in Eastmancolor. Cast * Rik Battaglia as Carlo * Sylva Koscina as Lucia * Margit Nünke as Giovanna * Gustavo Rojo as Pietro * Hans Albers as Lorenzo * Carlo Ninchi as Parisi * Saro Urzì as Tulio * Anna Maini * Marida Vanni * Giovanni Piva * Marco Guglielmi * Edoardo Toniolo * Piero Pastore * Giorgio Pucci * Valeria Fabrizi * Renato Navarrini * Spartaco Ricci * Geoffrey Duke as Biker * Libero Liberati as Biker * Bill Lomas Bill Lomas (8 March 1928 – 14 August 2007) was an English Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He was a two-time World Champion and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teenage Devil Dolls
''Teenage Devil Dolls'' (released in theaters as ''One Way Ticket to Hell'') is a 1955 American black and white teen crime drama film produced, written and directed by Bamlet L. Price, Jr. The film was made in a quasi-documentary style that has no dialogue, just sound effects and music by Robert Drasnin. The movie is narrated by Kurt Martell, as Police Lieutenant David Jason, but the part of the Lieutenant is portrayed by actor Robert A. Sherry in the film. Price borrowed $4000 from his then-wife Anne Francis to make the film. Plot Pert, pretty high-schooler Cassandra Leigh opts for the easy life of a pot-smoking biker to avoid the demands of her neurotic mother. When Cassandra's grades slip, destroying her college plans, she marries a love-smitten swain. But soon the bored young bride looks up her old thrill-seeking buddies, and splits from home. Soon Cassandra is peddling dope on the streets to finance her growing list of addictions. A young Mexican eventually makes her his pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Rider (film)
''The Black Rider'' is a 1954 British crime thriller film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, and Leslie Dwyer. It was produced as a low budget second feature for release by Butcher's Film Service. It was shot at the Walton Studios near London. The film's sets were designed by the art director John Stoll. Premise In a small seaside town in Southern England Jerry Marsh, a young reporter and amateur motorcyclist, investigates sightings of a hooded black figure on a motorbike. It turns out that a gang of smugglers use a haunted castle as their base, deterring curious locals by pretending to be ghosts. Cast * Jimmy Hanley as Jerry Marsh * Rona Anderson as Mary Plack * Leslie Dwyer as Robert Plack * Lionel Jeffries as Martin Bremner * Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Marsh * Michael Golden as Rakoff * Valerie Hanson as Karen * Vincent Ball as Ted Lintott * Edwin Richfield as Geoff Morgan * Kenneth Connor as George Amble * Robert Rietti as Mario * James Ragla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An American In Rome
''An American in Rome'' (originally ''Un americano a Roma'') is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. The film consists in a satire of Americanization, and it was referred as "a milestone in the evolution of Italian self-identification". It starred Alberto Sordi, with a young Ursula Andress in a minor role. Overview Sordi reprises the character of Nando Mericoni he played a few months before in an episode of comedy film ''Un giorno in pretura''. The character eventually returned in Sergio Corbucci's '' Di che segno sei?'' (1975). Due to the continuous references of ''Nando'' to Kansas City, Alberto Sordi received in 1955 its honorary citizenship. ''Nando'' would really refer to the state of Kansas and not to the city (he spoke about the life in ''the'' Kansas City and referred to him as a sort of highway policeman of ''the'' K.C.). Plot summary Italy in the Fifties. The image of grandeur and opulence, brought by the arrival of American troops in 1944, still has its e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery (United Kingdom), National Lottery to encourage film production, distribution, and education. It is sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and partially funded under the British Film Institute Act 1949. Purpose It was established in 1933 to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society, to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of British and world cinema and to establish, care for and develop collections reflecting the moving image history and heritage of the United Kingdom. BFI act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
