Nam's Angels
Nam's Angels is a So Bad It's Awesome 1970 trash/exploitation B action flick directed by Jack Starret, better known as The Losers. It's about a gang of bikers called "The Devil's Advocates", who are recruited by the US military to undertake a rescue operation of a CIA agent imprisoned by the Viet Cong in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The idea for the film, if you'll believe it, was derived from the fact that the real Hell's Angels biker gang actually did offer its services as guerilla fighters in the war to President Johnson, only for the offer to be declined.
It is a predecessor to Rambo, and could charitably be described as Rambo with motorcycles but the for the fact that it preceded it by fourteen years.
The movie makes a brief appearance in Pulp Fiction as the motorcycle movie Fabienne watches, but isn't sure of the name of.
Not to be confused with the 1989 film Nam Angels.
- All Bikers Are Hells Angels [context?]
- B-Movie [context?]
- Badass Biker: Well duh. [context?]
- Cool Bike: Yamahas, to be precise.
- Cool Versus Awesome: Hell's Angels versus the Viet Cong.
- Exploitation Film [context?]
- Rated "M" for Manly [context?]
- Rule of Cool: Did I mention the bikers have machine guns mounted on the fronts of their bikes?
- So Bad It's Good [context?]
- Vietnam War [context?]
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