The Cycle Savages (1969)

Interesting facts

The Cycle Savages is a 1969 American outlaw biker exploitation film written and directed by Bill Brame, and stars Bruce Dern and Melody Patterson. The film follows a biker and his crew who go after an artist who sketched his nude girlfriend. It premiered in Charlotte, North Carolina on August 22, 1969. Casey Kasem served as one of the film's producers.

Production

Gary Littlejohn recalled, "They asked me to go in there, and Bruce Dern was supposed to take my hand and squash it in a vice. I only took the job because I wanted to work with Bruce. I was working on something else at the time. I did a little riding in it and got some bikes and riders for it, that was about it."

Bruce Dern recalled he was paid $1,750 a week for three weeks while Scott Brady, who filmed for one day, was paid $30,000. Dern wrote:

I played a real bad biker, and Chris Robinson played an artist and the love/romantic star of the movie. Melody Patterson was the good-looking girl star, and you just knew the filmmakers were going to have a scene where I was going to have my way with her after I took care of the artist. I had to blind him and cut his hands all up so he could never paint again. Typical Bruce Dem storyline in the sixties.

Dern later wrote that while "I never worked on a movie I didn’t want to do. I did a couple of grim movies. The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant, that was a grim movie. The Cycle Savages was a grim movie. No money, no budget, no role, no script."

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