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Absolutely Fantastic

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The highlight of director Anthony M. Lanza's biker flick "The Glory Stompers" is lenser Mario Tossi's sensational cinematography. Tossi's use of wide angle lens gives this tame outlaw motorcycle melodrama lots of atmosphere and grit. Best known for the original "Carrie" and "The Stunt Man," Tossi has an eye for detail and depth. The opening images of this low-budget, exploitation epic are absolutely riveting! Quite simply, this is probably the best-looking biker movie that I've ever seen. If you ride, you will love the up-close and personal attention that he gives the bikers and their bikes. Moreover, the landscape imagery is terrific. When the villains cross a desert, it makes "The Glory Stompers" look like "Lawrence of Arabia." The story resembles a latter day western. The action is largely confined to biker rallies, places along the road, and fisticuffs in random places in the desert. "The Glory Stompers" is a road movie, and the bikes and the babes look good. Obviously, since it was a studio release in the late 1960s, the violence couldn't have been more any more graphic than it was. Glory Stompers' chief Darryl (Jody McCrea of "Young Guns of Texas") is beaten up and left for dead by a rival biker gang, The Black Souls, headed by Chico (Dennis Hopper of "Rebel Without A Cause"), who abducts Darryl's blonde babe Chris (Chris Noel of "Soldier in the Rain") so he can take her to Mexico and sell her into white slavery. Predictably, our resilient hero recovers from the beating and sets out in pursuit of Chino and company. Once Chino has taken Chris, he finds his leadership questioned by one of his burly minions, Magoo (Robert Tessier of "The Longest Yard"), who wants the girl for himself. Tessier makes a great second-string heavy, and this was before he shaved off his unruly mop of hair. Mind you, with a full head of hair, Tessier just doesn't look as intimidating. Magoo proves to be more than a handful for the scrawny Chino to handle. Worse than the hostile Magoo is Chino's own jealous girlfriend, Jo Ann (Sandra Bettin of "Angels from Hell"), who is rather dexterous with a knife. Chino discovers to his chagrin just how dexterous she is during the final quarter of this atmospheric biker yarn. As Darryl sets out to rescue Chris, he finds help from an unexpected quarter, an older chapter member of another Glory Stomper group, Smiley (Jock Mahoney of "Tarzan Goes to India"), shows up. Smiley spends more time advising our protagonist than taking licks for him in close-quarters combat. This American International Pictures release is a low-budget, but entertaining saga that doesn't wear out its welcome. Jody McCrea-yes, Joel's son-is too clean-cut to be believed, but his girl is trying to wean him off the biker thing. He is reluctant to give up his bike because he prefers the free-wheeling style of his biker pals. They set their own hours, do their own thing, and have freedom galore. This sounds a lot like Peter Fonda in another AIP release "The Wild Angels." Dennis Hopper makes a solid antagonist, and he appeared in this drive-in feature before he elevated biker flicks to the level of art with "Easy Rider." As motorcycle mayhem goes, "The Glory Stompers" doesn't have a whole lot of stomp, but it is a gorgeous film to gaze at with a good cast.

This movie started in the middle of the night when nothing else was on so I decided to give it a chance. Glory Stompers is not the greatest movie but for some reason I couldn't change the channel!! Two years later the movie came on again and here I sit, watching it again!! This movie just draws you in.. ..

I've always held Dennis Hopper in high regard as an actor but he must have literally been starving to take part in this picture. As Chino, the leader of the Black Souls biker gang, Hopper consistently goes over the top to the point of embarrassment, as demonstrated when he reacts to his brother Paul's (Jim Reader) death in the latter part of the story. It's actually quite hilarious if you get to see it.And knock me over with a feather, but I couldn't get over the idea of Casey Kasem as the mouth behind The Mouth, another Black Soul with maniacal tendencies. He mostly tag-teams with a character called Bones who isn't identified on the credits list, so at least that actor's name doesn't suffer the indignity of being identified with this flick. Actually, it got a little difficult to pinpoint the movie's genre at one point when the outlaw bikers rode into a love fest including hippies and flower children with a body painting in progress.Then knock me over double when one of my childhood fave's rides into view, good old Range Rider/Wild Bill Hickok himself, Jock Mahoney as a former Glory Stomper. The picture utilizes him to at least offer a semblance of normalcy to the proceedings when he advises Stomper Darryl (Jody McCrae) to leave the group and become a 'citizen'. But gee, if girlfriend Chris (Chris Noel) couldn't convince him, I don't know how Smiley would have. Just not in the cards.What makes the picture even more surreal if you watch for them, are the numerous continuity lapses between scenes when Darryl's facial bruises go away and reappear again, the same with Magoo's (Robert Tessier) right eye and the discoloration on Chris's forehead that's evident when she reunites with Darryl but is gone as soon as they kiss. At least the tear on her shirt remained intact for the entire picture, someone was paying attention to that one.Well I guess if you go for this stuff there's a lot here to keep one entertained. I can watch just about anything once, so at least now I can say I saw a Dennis Hopper motorcycle gang flick. A heck of a way to go though with a knife to the neck by a girlfriend's erratic knife throw. That was almost as gross as Clean Cut brother Paul spit-cleaning Chris's bloody lip. Eeeuuwwwww!

Glory Stompers, The (1968)** 1/2 (out of 4) AIP biker film has Black Souls member Chino (Dennis Hopper) beating the pulp out of a Glory Stomper (Jody McCrea) and stealing his girlfriend (Chris Noel). They think the Glory Stomper is dead but he eventually comes seeking revenge. As far as biker flicks goes this one here certainly isn't at the top of the group but it's a decent entry. There are enough plot holes here that you might find yourself laughing when you're not suppose to. One such moment happens early on after they beat up McCrea. For whatever reason they think he's dead but they never check a for a pulse or anything else. This here is why he's able to come after them as they didn't finish the job or even check to see if they did. Another such moment is when Hopper tells everyone that they'll never find the biker's body because they hid it yet all they did was put him and his bike under a tree where everyone could see it. It's that type of goofiness that gives this film its charm as well as other scenes including one where there's a mass orgy of body painting. There's some silly sex scenes thrown in but everyone keeps their clothes on and just rolls around in the dirt. Hopper is at his very best here playing a real nut who is constantly coming up with silly things to say and always threatening someone. McCrea doesn't have his father's acting ability but he's fun enough in the role. I didn't care too much for Noel as I found here way too bland for the character even though she is playing the goodie type. Robert Tessier, with hair, has a pretty good role as the muscle-bound thug and most will remember him from his bald roles in HARD TIMES and THE LONGEST YARD. Casey Kasem and Lindsay Crosby (Bing's daughter) also appear. The movie moves along quickly enough and there's enough charm to make it worth viewing if you're a fan of the genre. There's certainly nothing terrific or ground breaking here but Hopper is a lot of fun and makes it worth checking out.