Woodyanders Former stock car racer turned police officer Rod Tillman (a solid and likable performance by Steve Alaimo) goes undercover to infiltrate the biker gang the Satan's Angels, who have been terrorizing South Florida and are planning to hold up a bank. Writer/director William Grefe treats the amiably silly story with endearingly misguided seriousness and adds a few inspired inane touches that provide several major belly laughs (Tillman just happens to also be a singer, so he does a gloriously goofy number in a club and the head biker is strangely articulate for a one percenter). Moreover, the bikers are a colorful and entertaining bunch: Willie Pastrano as volatile brute banjo, John Vella as cunning and well-spoken leader Jeeter, foxy brunette Bobbie Byers as sexy motorcycle mama Linda, and Jeff Gillen as grunting crude slob Fats, who has been rendered mute after he got hit in the head with a surfboard. The Bird Watchers Band put in a neat appearance at a club backing Tillman when he belts out his number. (The groovy theme song is a swinging hoot, too.) Moreover, the climactic bank robbery and subsequent car chase and shoot out with the cops is so ineptly handled that it's unintentionally hilarious, with Banjo's ill-advised escape attempt on a police motorcycle proving to be the definite gut-busting highlight. Good dippy fun.

lemon_magic "Wild Rebels" was probably a fun second film at a drive in movie triple feature 40 years ago. It hasn't aged very well, but it was never meant to age well; it was obviously intended to be disposable, forgettable fun from its inception. Taken on that level, it's a good example of the biker flick genre.Several elements help distinguish it from the dozens of similar films being churned out at the same time. The 'hero', 'Rod Tillman' (Steve Alaimo) comes off as somewhat of an unimpressive 'Everyman' - he's not especially brave, tough, talented, or handsome (although he does win a fight with a tough biker gang member halfway into the film, and the girl gang member chooses to help him over her fellow gang member at the end of the film). The soundtrack is quite well done, featuring a nice 'Ventures' style bass/drum riff that keeps things moving and saxophones and brass charts that pep things up quite a bit. And although the script is pretty shallow, all the actors inhabit their cardboard characters convincingly and with a fair amount of energy.There are plenty of careless technical gaffes: terrible 'day-for-night' scenes that occur in broad daylight, squealing tires in a swamp, fire sirens mistakenly stuck on the soundtrack instead of police sirens, a bank sign made of duct tape on a ceiling tile, a Luger that sounds like a Winchester 30-06, shotgun blasts that cut down people 100 yards away, a detective killing a biker on a 3rd floor landing from the ground with a revolver with a 2 inch barrel.There are a whole bunch of goofy story elements : Linda (the girl gang member) disables a bank guard with a drug-filled syringe, the final shootout takes place inside a lighthouse (!), police roadblocks don't actually block roads, the police apparently never heard of ducking, and the police detectives apparently never heard of planting bugs or having their undercover guy wearing a wire.But the plot chugs along, the cameraman knows what he is doing, the pacing in most scenes is pretty good, and there are some nice, zippy one liners and dialog exchanges here and there that keep the energy level up. (My favorite: "Man, you're messing with private stock! (ie, Linda)" So no, don't seek this one out or anything, but if a copy of the MST version should fall in your hands, you should have some good, shallow fun watching it. Vastly superior to "Five the Hard Way" or "The Hellcats" or even 'Girl In Gold Boots' (three other MST covered counter culture movies).

Lok0989 No that its sick. It's not sick. It made me want to puke because I spent 2 dollars on it. Its boring, Retarded, and annoying. I didn't see the MST3K version, which sucks because I bet the MST3K version was funny. It's sad that people waste money on these kinds of movies. I'm surprised its not on the "100 Worst Movies of All Time List".TromaDude's Rating- 0 outta ***** stars

icehole4 Probably the biggest thing about Wild Rebels that hurts it the most is the hero. He's got LOSER written all over him, but that doesn't stop him from "getting the girl." Probably one of the world's worst race drivers imaginable, he decides to stop racing after he crashes his car. Well, his new job is racing still, as a bunch of biker types pick him to drive their getaway car as they commit crimes. There's nothing really to endear you to Rod, even the situation he's thrown into is pretty stupid. In the end, at the lighthouse scene, you'll wish that Rod gets killed with all the bikers. Get this: He's shot twice, once in the arm and once in the leg, and still manages to crawl up the stairs a little. If only Jeeter had better aim... Avoid this one unless you're watching the MST3K version.