A rather tiresome anti-establishment film is an extremely dull, uneventful and juvenile look how a group of hippies harassed by a bunch of idiotic locales stand up to them with the help of biker dude Don Stroud. There's no proper description of the clownish absurdities that occur once a bunch of biker dudes entering the scene as if they were producing an extremely bad circus musical in the middle of the woods occurs. Stroud and his biker gang (led by Luke Askew and Larry Bishop) are determined to teach the peace loving hippies how to fight so they can stop being bullied, and it seems that they have the approval of local sheriff Aldo Ray.

Outside of the location photography, the only thing memorable is an early appearance by Tyne Daly who remind me of a young Liza Minnelli in "The Sterile Cuckoo". I didn't find it there's much of a story, and while some of the background music is pretty, it's basically just trashy and moronic, no more dangerous than a beach party movie which American International also produced.

Angel (surfer Don Stroud, "The Amityville Horror") is a biker who joins a commune of hippies near a small town. When the town rednecks attack them, Angel calls up some of his bad biker buddies to exact revenge.

This is more or less exactly what you would expect from a movie that combines hippies with bikers. They simply do not get along well, despite both of them being anti-establishment and pro-drug. (We saw a similar yet different encounter in "Easy Rider".)

Was this a good film? Maybe. I mean, I am not going to go out and tell people to watch it. But as far as some good old-fashioned American International Pictures fun goes, this is another AIP film that you can just relax to. No thinking involved.

Disaffected biker Angel (well played with brooding intensity by Don Stroud) decides to quit the motorcycle club he's a member of. Angel decides to join a hippie commune. Complications ensue when the local rednecks start putting serious heat on the hippies for being different.

Director Lee Madden relates the engrossing story at a brisk pace, maintains a generally serious tone throughout, and stages the exciting rough'n'ready action set pieces with flair and skill (a lively rumble between two biker gangs set in an amusement park rates as a definite stirring highlight). Jeffrey Irving Fiskan's thoughtful script offers strong themes about finding yourself, mainstream society's gross intolerance of anyone who defies the status quo, and how sometimes certain circumstances necessitate fighting fire with fire. The sound acting by the capable cast holds this picture together: Luke Askew as peaceful commune leader Jonathan Tremaine, Larry Bishop as loyal biker buddy Pilot, a pre-"Cagney & Lacey" Tyne Daly as the sweet Marilee, Bill McKinney as the belligerent Shotgun, and T. Max Graham as amiable goofball Magician. Aldo Ray has an amusing small role as a laidback sheriff. Irving Lippman's sunny cinematography and the melodic score by Randy Sparks are both up to par, too. A satisfying little flick.