Okay, Tom Stern annoyed me in his overreaching/unconvincing biker turns, ANGELS FROM HELL and HELL ANGELS '69 (where he very wisely took a back seat to the real Hells Angels), yet I'm surfing on eMoviePoster.com tonight and stumble across a really cool-looking locandina for a 1971 grindhouse action flick called CLAY PIGEON.
Imagine my horror while studying said locandina when I connected the real interesting hippy-looking bare chested shooter with Tom Stern. There's no doubt who this guy is. Stern was a ham. Stern was very over-the-top in a time when acting over-the-top was a badge of honor in cinema. That I presume he and Telly Savalas would abosolutely O.T.T. each other right off the screen in CLAY PIGEON, is just something too much fun to contemplate, no matter how bad the film actually is.
Of course, this is NOT available in the U.S. But the poster? It's fun.
And the movie concept? Ex-soldier gone hippie who the FBI hires as an undercover narc. I like that, and not just because I've written a character like this (at least ex'Nam-soldier as cop gone very undercover hippie). This film sounds right up my alley and would probably make a great triple feature with DEATH OF A SNOWMAN and THE HEROIN BUSTERS.
So despite my wince factor at Tom Stern's involvement, I do hope this surfaces one day. Yeah, and I wouldn't mind an official copy of ANGELS FROM HELL too. Not for Stern, but for Dirty "Dirt" Denny, a real Bakerfield biker at the time the film was shot. "Dirt" was in a lot of the bikesploitation films and always made a fun impression. Probably because he was the earliest donner of a nose piercing I'd come across, (be it a nail through his septum, or a ring). And because he was just so '60s biker cool.
If I remember I may bit on the CLAY PIGEON locandina. Knowing me, I'll forget but I have a feeling this film might surface on dvd pretty soon. I hope so...I need some early '70s soldiering-hippie action.
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