Dir: Bill Brame
Romko (Chris STANLEY Robinson), an immigrant who escaped from Eastern Europe, spends his time drawing people. With pencil and pad he sketches everything from an attractive young woman feeding the birds in the park to the local biker gang terrorizing citizens. Its the later illustrations that draw the attention of Keeg (NEBRASKA's Bruce Dern) to Romko.Keeg is the leader of the biker gang and through sheer force of will and intimidation has muzzled all witnesses to his gang's lawlessness. Somehow Romko's pencil drawings of Keeg and crew upsets that balance of 'shut up or I'll break your face' and Keeg sets out to put Romko right.
Laying in wait at Romko's apartment building, the gang attacks him in the hallway and Keeg slices the illustrator's stomach with a switchblade. unconscious from the attack, Romko is further ensnared in Keeg's web of deception. Also living in the appartment complex is Lea (F TROOP's Melody Patterson) who is under Keeg's thumb and agrees to tend to Romko's wounds and seduce him so that she can keep tabs on him for Keeg. But she soon starts to fall for the upstanding Romko.
In addition to not wanting the law to find out about the gang's lawlessness of running red lights, wasting beer by splashing it around, smoking pot and dropping acid, Keeg is also a female flesh peddler. He provides broken in product to his slave trader older brother (Casey Kasem looking fabulous sitting poolside while waring a frilly long sleeve shirt in his only scene).
There isn't much in the way of biker action (the opening shows the gang stopping for donuts and coffee) and most of the film takes place on either the apartment set or on the biker pad set and there isn't much of a script. Despite the weakness of the script, there are gems rolling off the tongue of Keeg that remind one of how powerful Bruce Dern's rebellious / stick it to the man soliloquy's can be when he has a half way decent character to portray.
** out of ****
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