The Sidehackers

Movie poster.

The Sidehackers was a 1969 action film about mere revenge but using those days hype: motorcycles. In fact, the movie title it's a synonym of "sidecar", you know, the bike add-on extra sit which a passenger rides and tilts to one side or another when going around curves. The credits thank the "Southern California Sidehack Association"; sidehacking is also known as sidecarcross or "sidecar motocross racing"...

Directed by	Gus Trikonis
Produced by	Ross Hagen
Written by	Larry Billman (Story) Tony Huston
Starring	Ross Hagen Diane McBain
Music by	Mike Curb Guy Hemric Jerry Styner
Cinematography	Jon Hall
Editing by	Pat Somerset
Distributed by	Crown Productions
Release date(s)	May 1969
Running time	82 min
Country	United States
Language	English

Cool wallpaper.

The film centers around Rommel, a mechanic/sidehack-style racer, who turns down the offer of J.C., a hot-tempered entertainer, to join his act after J.C. witnesses a sidehack race for the first time. During this time, J.C.'s abused girlfriend, Paisley, falls for Rommel and attempts to seduce him...

Bad motherfucker.

 He rejects her advances and sends her away crying. Later, when J.C. and his crew return to their hotel, they find Paisley drunk and her clothes tattered, claiming that Rommel raped her. Angered, J.C. and his gang beat Rommel unconscious and kill his fiancee, Rita. Rommel then spends the rest of the movie plotting his revenge against J.C., who goes into hiding from the police...

This is the scene that leads to the main plot.

The film's end is nihilistic in nature. After both Rommel and J.C.'s men have killed each other (while two of Rommel's men escaped on a sidehack bike), the two men brawl. When Rommel manages to gain the upper hand, he elects to walk away when the police are about to arrive, but J.C. picks up a gun and shoots Rommel from behind. The last images of the film are a flashback of Rommel and his fiancee rolling about in a grassy field, superimposed over a shot of Rommel's dead body.

Nothing better than a fist fight, no weapons allowed.

Searching through the web I wasn't able of finding any trailer for this interesting biker hype movie, but I offer you in humble exchange the whole movie in 9 parts. Some guy took the time and placed it on youtube. Now, of course the image & sound quality is nothing like the DVD but at least is something. Anyways the DVD released by Mill Creek Entertainment on the "Savage Cinema" 12 movie pack does not have the greatest of the greatest transfers, and that means it won't look good on today's standards LCD/LED TVs.

So, here's the Youtube "uncut" movie version:

See you some time soon with more B movies!