2. The Pink Angels (1971)
A comedy about a gay motorcycle gang on their way to a "Ladies Cotillion" in Los Angeles and the hijinks they get into along the way. Capitalizing on the biker craze started by Easy Rider, The Pink Angels, despite its truly bizarre premise, the quintessential American road movie. From a food fight, to run ins with the law, an encounter with a rival gang, a fabulous picnic brunch featuring candleabra and place settings, a visit with some well worn hookers, to a night on the town dressed as women, The Pink Angels has pretty much all the action/sex/violence/crossdressing angles covered on this odyssey to LA. In the middle of their high society style picnic, another gang of bikers arrives led by "you've seen him a hundred times on tv" character actor Michael Pataki. Best known as the Klingon who starts a barfight with Scotty in The Trouble with Tribbles, Pataki delivers his usual bombastic anger fueled brand of acting. He's accompanied by 70's tv star Dan "Grizzly Adams" Haggerty! Initially suspicious of the Pink Angels, those suspicions are soon distracted by the arrival of a flock of truck stop prostitutes. After the thrill of participating in a drunken outdoors interracial sex romp, GHrizzley Adams awakens to find that the Pink Angels have done up his hair with bows and his face with makeup. Needless to say he and his cadre of manly men are not amused. Later after the Pink Angels have switched to drag, becoming the most unconvincing collection of transvestites in the history of ever, we are treated to the unforgettable sight of Grizzly Adams picking one of them up and towing "her" on the back of his hog.
Great Quotes "Jesus Christ! You're all F####ts! "You really do have broads! You don't mind if we use them for a while?" "I'll kill those bananas!!!" "I'd love to get my hands on some of those long haired freaks" "...this is one all American red-blooded f####t you can't scare!" This movie features a plot twist that I will not spoil for you but, I have yet to find anyone who was able to see it coming.