The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us.
OUTLAW MOTORCYCLES (1966)
Run Time: 35:00
A Film By: Titus Moede (credited as Titus Moody)
Key Cast: Gordon Barclay, Denise Lynn, Titus Moede
FILM MAKERS
Surprisingly little information is available regarding the underground/alternative cinema maverick, despite the fact that he was actively involved in the film industry for over three decades. Born Titus Moede in 1938, he would later often use the surname Titus Moody, allegedly taken from a recurring character on Fred Allen’s radio program.
He got his start in the industry with a series of bit parts in lower-tier teenage-themed pictures, beginning in 1958 with The Party Crashers. This quickly segued into a handful of TV credits, which included parts on The Twilight Zone and Combat. The mid-1960s would find him very active in low-budget indie fringe cinema, most notably as a stock performer in the notorious efforts of director Ray Dennis Steckler. He would dabble a bit behind the camera, as well, eventually taking on a number of eccentric personal vanity projects like Outlaw Motorcycles and The Last Of The American Hoboes.
By 1970, Moede had mostly resigned himself to work on sexploitation and hard-X features, including his notorious cult feature The Dirtiest Game in the World (1970). He passed on in Los Angeles from cancer on Feb. 6, 2001, at age 62.
SUMMARY
In 1965 actor and hopeful first time director Titus Moede, befriended ‘Preacher’ of the Coffin Cheaters while looking for a project. He soon realized that this was exactly what he had been looking for.
As an actor, Titus appeared in over 30 films, including as a biker named ‘Twitchy’ in Hell’s Chosen Few (1968).
We’ve included an intro and outro to the film Outlaw Motorcycles, which Titus filmed in 1993. In it we learn a bit more about Moede the bike rider and builder. He boasts that the film includes “the largest assembly of outlaw gangs ever filmed and documented”. The film is a true lost gem of cult cinema, and motorcycle movies history. Enjoy!
*Titus Moede Trivia: Who was the first person to create the first chrome chopper? Watch to the end to find out!
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WATCH THE FULL FILM at CINE MECCANICA!
Read more about Moede, The Last Of the American Hoboes, and Outlaw Motorcycles HERE.
Buy ‘The Last Of The American Hobo’ on DVD.
First off … great catch CM !
Second … ahh … that brief moment in the 60’s when hippie / 1%’er / hobbyist and dilettante road together in relative peace and fun . . Yuppie Bikers and Suburban Urban Hairy Hipster Wanna Be’s having yet to of crawled out of the muck and mire . .
Third … methinks Mr M’s claim to fame is a crock of effluence . First off enlarging the photo .. the bike isn’t
chromed ( frame is black etc ) Also …. making claim to ANY first when it comes to custom motorcycles is a fools paradise . Even worse to making claim that this that or the other person created rock .. jazz … blues etc .
Finally … a bit of irony for y’all …. whilst y’alls sending us to Cine Mechanica’s ‘ YouSteal website to watch the full film … they’re sending us back here to watch it … hmmmmmmm…………….
So errr …. who’s got their wires crossed on this moment of digital insanity ?
In closing though … again … great find CM …. keep em coming !!!
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Take a wild guess who’s behind the the infamous night called Cine Meccanica….which has found, reviewed and screened for over a decade…the good bad and the bizarre of motorized cinema. It even might just have been the precursor to the original and international, The Motorcycle Film Festival, and the Vintagent Film Archive.
It’s true, it’s me! 😉
You can read my full bio here:
https://via-meccanica.com/
Hee hee … so ok … Que questo …why the mix up between the sites on where to watcha da cine ?
Seriously CM … one should not place contradictory recommendations … ‘specially when the one ( the YouSteal one ) isa … wronga
Ecoo … Va bene … basta ( is it too obvious I’ve been re-reading ” Fast Company ” ? the Ducati memoir … not the business magazine garbage .. damn … get around the Italian language or NY/NJ accents for more than an hour … and I’m knee deep back into my past …. oh well … ole habits die hard … very hard indeed )
FYI … for a view into the involvement of the hippie crew in choppedom back in the 60’s … read Peter Coyote’s autobiographies … ” Rain Mans Cure ” and ” Sleeping Where I Fall ”
Fact is … someone would do well to interview Mr Coyote to garner some fist hand insights into chopper culture back in the day
HINT HINT !
now pardon me while I pop on the classic Persols … suns a shining and ….. 😎
And a so …. you maka da saddle ! Molto bene . You maka a sompthin . Atsa the good thing . Very nice a saddle and a seats indeed ( love the Type 35’s seat )
Nice a stie too . Clean and a simple … easy to navigate
One a producto sugestione if I may ?
Make a da bad ass Squirrel … complete with sunglasses , M/C boots and a da leather jacket . Hell …. I’d a buy dat without a the secundo thought
Just a suggestion
Ciao … and donna be surprised if a ya hears from for a saddle commission … assuming I finally get back in the saddle … and build a da new bike .
GS …aka … Vicenzo’s Ghost … aka .. Kafka on the high plains
I use Cine Meccanica as a place to host rare and hard to find trailers and clips that I cut from the original films (when a trailer is not available). This is so they have a home online to view for as long as our endeavors last. As opposed to relying on other YouTube accounts longevity. Of course we always link directly to filmmaker owned accounts for the bulk of films posted.
I also on occasion use it for full length rare films that aren’t available to purchase online or on dvd. For these, I use C.M account to not risk The vintagent account good standing.
In this particular case, there’s so many boobies in the film that YouTube fr Raked out and restricted it for the tender eyes of the youths. Because of this, a direct embedding of the full film would have a broken link and tell you to watch it on YouTube only anyway. So a link button was an aesthetic and practical decision.
Each film presents its own set of research and presentation challenges. All well worth the effort to collect them in a central archive home 😉
Ahhhh YouSteal ( as a musician I despise YouSteal almost a much as Spotify )
You can spread all the lies you want … push potentially deadly snake oil cures left and right … insight violence to your hearts content …
But god forbid a bit of T&A etc should show .
Yeah … once again … the ethics of the internet in full bloom … e.g. … there are none … and what little pretends to be there are purely subjective … subjected to the almighty dollar that is
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