Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels in this film For what this film is, it's great. No better 'genre' film exists. One of the reasons is that Sonny Barger himself, founder and still President of the Hell's Angels, is in the film's opening scene, kicking over his bike and proceeding to run over a flower bed in a city park! That's how bad these guys are! Barger is in the film throughout, and the producers probably had to pay Sonny and his 'club members' a pretty penny in order to use them and their official 'colors' (the H.A. logo, etc). Sonny also "starred" in "Hells Angel's '69", about an Angel's attempt to rip-off a Vegas casino, and appeared in almost any film where the "Angel's" name and logo were needed. Barger is still alive and runs and owns 'Sonny Barger Harley-Davidson' in Oakland, Ca, where the Hell's Angeles were born. He's probably been in in prison for 35 of the last 40 years. Barger is the nice fellow who got the'club' into drugs, gun-running and other nefarious money-making schemes, though for the most part ALL the Angels were true scum of the earth. Notice there are no apparent people of color in the movie, though Barger himself is Hispanic. "HA" has been a white-supremacist group since it began, arguments claiming otherwise notwithstanding. They are still associated with the "Aryan Brotherhood" in California prisons. Using "real" Angels means we get to not only see them in their usual habitat (acting stupid, drunk, stoned and, mostly, violent) but we also get to see their bikes, true relics of another age, some of which are probably in the Smithsonian, or at least Harley museums around the world. I was amazed that none of the bikes appeared to be of the extreme "chopper" variety with extended front forks allowing the rider to hang from the "monkey bars". As much as corporate Harley-Davidson said they officially hated these 'clubs', they took care of Sonny throughout the years. This film was made in San Francisco during the infamous "Summer of Love", 1967. As the other poster mentioned, Nicholson and Roarke also star in "Psych-Out!", with Nicholson as an LSD dealer whom the Feds are hot to catch.