Today in motorcycle history, June 5, 1968

                                

  Angels from Hell is released by American International Pictures (AIP) on June 5, 1968.

 

  Directed by Bruce Kessler with a screenplay written by Jerome Wish.  It was the first film produced by Joe Solomon's Fanfare Films, a firm Solomon had created with the profits from three previous biker films.  The film was shot in beautiful Bakersfield, California with music by the legendary Peanut Butter Conspiracy*.

 

  A former motorcycle club president, Mike (Tom Stern), returns home from Vietnam to resume his life and form a new motorcycle club.  Using all his gathered experience as a war hero he tries to unite all the existing neighborhood clubs and put together a brand new, super-duper outlaw bike club.  

 

  Mike soon faces trouble when one of his club brothers murders a young woman at a "drug party" and is shot by the police.  The trouble intensifies when an all-out cop against biker war breaks out.

 

  The cast included Tom Stern (married/divorced to/from Samantha Eggar) as Mike, Ted Markland (Angels from Hell, Another 48 Hours) as Smiley,  Jack Starrett (Blazing Saddles, Born Losers, Hells Angels on Wheels) as Bingham and Arlene Martel (Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Hogan's Heroes, The Monkees) as Ginger, the biker sex-kitten.  Choppers, chicks, cops and drugs.

 

*Peanut Butter Conspiracy also recorded songs for movies including: Run Angel Run, Jud, Cherry Harry and Raquel, Hell Ride, 2000 Years Later and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.