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Summary: 5 Stars????
Review: A few interesting scenes, but the campy psychedelic effects overwhelm this movie.
Rating: 
Summary: Art, Classic,Super Sixties, Too Cutting Edge for Its' Time!
Review: Beautiful Babe+Story+ Love+ Emotion+ Action+ Great Cinematography Back in 1960. Come on It has the Total Package. Certainly would have been an award winner if censors hadn't butchered it beyond recognition, thus crippling continuity. Fortunately I saw it in a first run unsensored un cut format-High Impact. Every bit Rebel Without A Cause/James Dean or Brando Era Stuff. Reviewers of the Day were to weak to buck mainstream uptight conservative Morays, and afraid of the Market/Studios Power on the whole. The movie was Very Reflective of the young people in the sixties and even those today, who are pushed like a peg in a hole in the main. Both influenced and expected to conform to majority ideals and opinions of their Elders as sheep. The Movie Well Exhibits Free Will, Free Expression and There Is Life being Lived. The Story, Portrayal, Acting and Filmwork were superb for a modest budgeted project. The action is good as any, and Ridership very good. Note the riding of onto the grass is far harder and more slippery as any rider can attest. As for wet roads that's a given. Not computer animation. Too Real; For Its Day I Found It Was Just Superb!
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Summary: Art, Classic,Super Sixties, Too Cutting Edge for Its' Time!
Review: Beautiful Hot Babe+Story+ Love+ Emotion+ Action+ Great Cinematography Back in 1968. Oh Baby!Come on It has the Total Package.The First Run I Saw at a theater, X rated It was Great,English-Euro Version is the Bomb! But soon after That Censorship Got Its Maleavolent Head-Up cutting time off the USA Film. It Certainly should have been an award winner if censors hadn't butchered/Edited it mercilessly, crippling continuity. Fortunately I saw it in a first run unsensored un cut format-High Impact. Every bit Rebel Without A Cause/James Dean or Brando Era Stuff. Reviewers of the Day were to weak to buck mainstream uptight conservative Morays, and afraid of the Market/Studios Power on the whole. The movie was Very Reflective of the young people in the sixties and even those today, who are pushed like a peg in a hole in the main. Both influenced and expected to conform to majority ideals and opinions of their Elders as sheep. The Movie Well Exhibits Free Will, Free Expression and There Is Life being Lived. The Story, Portrayal, Acting and Filmwork were superb for a modest budgeted project. The action is good as any, and Ridership very good. Note the riding of onto the grass is far harder and more slippery as any rider can attest. As for wet roads that's a given. Not computer animation. Too Real; For Its Day I Found It Was Just Superb!
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Summary: For Real Motorcyclists
Review: Forget the love story. If you're a real biker you'll love the flick for the asthetics of motorcycles and the feeling of riding in the wind. It features a very nice Norton and a Harley. This movie will be appreciated by those who lived in the 60's and rode bikes. I highly reccomend this video to all us older bikers!
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Summary: Russ Meyer does Belle De Jour
Review: Girl on a motorcycle is a 1960s time capsule piece about a forlorn wife who leaves her life behind to flee to her lover. The film is essentially a well-done exploitation film in that sets out to exploit Marriane Faithful and her motorcycle while punctuating the action and nudity with philosophical snippets of dialogue. Sort of like if Goddard directed "Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill". However, the visuals are what's important in this film and they don't disapoint, especially if you are a fan of 60s films, such as "The Trip" or "Psych-Out".
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Summary: UNDERated Even By Cult Standards**!
Review: In the 60s "Girl On A Motorcycle" was payed little attention,did poorly at the box office, and by 1960s standereds was written off as a "phoney" an unsucessful attempt by Ronald Duncan and Jack Cardiff at making a movie with a "mind-boggling anti-sanity" feel. And if THATS the case and this REALLY was an "embarrassing attempt" then they certainly played it off well, didn't they? Disregard all the negitive reviews, Im sure that if this kind of movie was released in today's pathetic film industry of arsty-fartsy posers...it would have been a classic right away and still carry the label of being a cult at the same time.Girl on A Motorcycle has the 1960s written all over it! Its not brilliant like A Clockwork Orange or Mick Jagger's movie "Performance" (Nobody asked but Mick was also Marianne Faithful's love intreast at the time)
When released in 1968 Warner Brothers carried it under the title "Naked Under Leather" and was also severely editied to maintain an "R" rating~WHICH IS THE MAIN REASON WHY THE MOVIE PROBLEY GOT TRASHED not because it was bad, but because it was so ridiculously cut. Thankfully now you can buy the European verison which shows the whole un-cut thing.
Marianne Faithful (who complety surprised me with her A+ acting skills) stars as a newlywed housewife who wakes up in the middle of the night after an erotic fantasy of her and her ex lover Alain. She realizes Alain's the one she really loves. She puts on her quite small fitting fur-lined leather jump suit (and only wearing the jumpsuit) she takes off in her motorcycle for a long ride though Europe'c country side. Basically on her way, she experiences fantasies about her husband and her "lover".
I did put off watching this movie for quite some-time..it just didnt seem as if would be worth while, but even by its little-know status is still very underrated, im glad i finally got around to it;) If your a fan of the 60s such as (Psych-Out,Valley of the Dolls,Head,Faster Pussycat Kill Kill,Barbarella,Head, or even Mr.Powers (thats AUSTIN Powers) himself...you would enjoy this;)
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Summary: A good Oldtime Movie
Review: It was a good movie..but a few things were overlooked ie: snow on the mufflers of the Norton after Marriane Faithfull had just ridden it up the mountain, and the speed she was riding on snow and ice... but on the whole a good clean bike movie and worth viewing again and again!
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Summary: The World's Greatest Psychedelic Driver's Ed Film
Review: Rather than suffer her 19th Nervous Breakdown disgruntled housewife Marianne Faithfull (pre-Tom Waits soundalike period) hits the European road gleefully bouncing her robust Brit bottom on her motorbike soon to be coupled with intense Eurohunk Alain Delon.
Our leather-clad goddess wistfully reflects and reminisces about her last year on earth with eye-zapping psychedelic effects. This film would actually play very well in a double-feature with the simirlarly wild film "Performance".
Note to Marianne: while grinding down the Autobahn on a motorbike at 95 miles an hour it's okay to flap your thighs and bounce your butt but by all means KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN!
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Summary: Rated X? You've got to be kidding...
Review: This film has some good Harley riding by the girl in question, interesting scenery & cinematography and a nice, arty premise, but the psychedelics are annoying and by no means buy the DVD for the nudity. I can't believe this had to be "extensively cut" to get an R-rating. Seems to me that it would need a few seconds of trims at MOST and in fact there's nothing I saw here that I haven't seen in other R-rated movies. There isn't a lot of nudity in it and the vast majority is obscured by the psychedelic effects. The resulting footage is mostly no more explicit than a James Bond title sequence. The PG-rated Logan's Run shows off Jenny Agutter just about as much (without being so annoying). I can't help but wonder if this DVD doesn't really contain the cut version, although it doesn't look cut up... I've seen plenty of R-rated "exploitation flicks" that were way more revealing.
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Summary: Rated X? You've got to be kidding...
Review: This film has some good Harley riding by the girl in question, interesting scenery & cinematography and a nice, arty premise, but the psychedelics are annoying and by no means buy the DVD for the nudity. I can't believe this had to be "extensively cut" to get an R-rating. Seems to me that it would need a few seconds of trims at MOST and in fact there's nothing I saw here that I haven't seen in other R-rated movies. There isn't a lot of nudity in it and the vast majority is obscured by the psychedelic effects. The resulting footage is mostly no more explicit than a James Bond title sequence. The PG-rated Logan's Run shows off Jenny Agutter just about as much (without being so annoying). I can't help but wonder if this DVD doesn't really contain the cut version, although it doesn't look cut up... I've seen plenty of R-rated "exploitation flicks" that were way more revealing.
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