Released in 1970, "Angel Unchained" features Don Stroud as an Arizona biker who decides he's had enough of the biker lifestyle. He roams off and ends up at a hippie commune where he hooks up with a young Tyne Daly.
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.
Angel Unchained has the ingredients of your basic AIP picture- bikers, 'cowboys' (rednecks), hippies, and lots of action. Unfortunately, it isn't entirely synthesized.
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.
The title of this biker flick seems to suggest that the character of Angel (Stroud) will at some point cut loose and split open some heads, but that never really happens. It refers more to the fact that he breaks free of the commitment he once had to a bike gang (or club, as it is referred to here.
Obviously "biker gang" and "hippie commune" are terms of pure fantasy ... the fantasy of enjoyment that the workaday world had about '60s subculture.
Don Stroud stars as Angel, an outlaw biker who decides to leave his gang behind, and live in a hippie commune. The premise of this film isn't really credible, since bikers had a completely different value system than hippies.
Jack said the rednecks are on "Go-Carts". I own the movie and watch it every few years or so.
Angel unchained is a movie about a biker (named angel) who leaves his gang to get his head together, he ends up in a hippie commune that is being harassed by the locals. when things get ugly Agel is asked to recruit his old gang to help fend of harassing rednecks.
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