The Dirt Gang (1972)

Director: Jerry Jameson

Writers: Michael DeForrest, Michael C. Healy

Starring: Paul Carr, Michael Pataki, Lee de Broux, Jon Shank, Nancy Harris, T.J. Escott, Jessica Stuart, Tom Anders, Joe Mosca, Michael Forest, Jo Anne Meredith

More info: IMDb

Tagline: God Help The Fuzz that flashes a badge on the Dirt Gang!

Plot: A film crew shooting in the desert is terrorized by a vicious outlaw motorcycle gang (on dirt bikes, no less).

My rating:

Will I watch it again?  No.

If you like your biker flicks on the cartoonish side then this might be for you.  The movie's not cartoonish but the biker gang leader sure looks the part.  Right from the start these guys show us how mean they are by murdering a cop.  Then they come across this isolated Western film shoot and they take it over and terrorize the few people involved with making the picture.  The performances are what you'd expect in a low budget exploitation picture like this but there was one person who immediately stood out as soon as he opened his mouth and that was Michael Forest, one of the guys making the movie.  And it's no wonder; this guy's been acting for a long time.  He's almost 90 and he's got nearly 300 IMDb credits including playing Apollo in the STAR TREK episode, WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS? (1967) and he'd been at this since '55.  The best part of the movie isn't any actor but the big biker orgy scene in the last act.  There's a ton of great nudity.  What hurts the picture most is how much the movie drags shortly after the bikers end up that the movie shoot until the orgy.  It's an OK movie and it's not so bad that it deserves the current IMDb user rating of 1.7.  It's a middle of the road biker flick from that era.  I've seen a bunch of them from that period and few of them are worth watching more than once, very few.