Biker movies are normally about dudes–the bikes they ride, the women they rape. Fortunately, some of these films have female protagonists, allowing the viewer to delve into their psyches and discover the wants and needs of the chopper chick. (Don’t worry, there are still enough bare-ass titties to send a biker to hog heaven.)
• The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)–Songstress Marianne Faithfull shows off her acting chops in a movie that’s not typical of the biker film genre, but rather of the psychedelic, swinging ’60s. Faithfull leaves her husband, taking his motorbike on a scenic voyage across continental Europe. As she rides, she has trippy fantasies of debauchery and plenty of drippy voiceovers.
• Angel Unchained (1970)–As far as entirely inappropriate violence and assault on women goes, you won’t find it here. Tyne Daly is a hippie who hooks up with an ex-biker (Don Stroud), and when the local hicks begin rustlin’ up the hippies’ love nest, Stroud calls in his old buds to help. Awww! Bikers and hippies, together at last!
• C.C. and Company (1970)–“Broadway Joe” Namath is C.C. Ryder (you might remember Wayne Cochran’s band, the C.C. Riders), a renegade biker who meets Ann-Margret at a motocross tournament. She’s a high-fashion New York photographer, and he’s a hood who steals groceries and bikes. As Joe and Ann-Margret ride off in search of they-don’t-know-what, the viewer is left with the quandary: Which came first? The movie or the band?
• Barb Wire (1996)–In 2040, during the Second American Civil War, Pamela Anderson takes breaks from running a bar to be a bike-ridin’ bounty hunter. But that’s irrelevant: You’ll watch this comic book-inspired movie to see Pam Anderson’s big-ass titties. (It’s okay. Even we homos watch it for that reason!) You won’t come away unsatisfied–and true to her British Columbian roots, Pamela even demands Canadian dollars for her bounty. WILL GARDNER