Awesome Beat JD flick, every line a camp classic. There's actually a Roger Corman-produced sequel called "Velocity" from 1999 filmed with a Nicholson lookalike. A lot of it is flashbacks of "The Wild Ride" but still an interesting film just the same, as an older Johnny Varron tries to redeem himself.

@haf816r

2 жыл бұрын

Can't wait to check it out!

@duran007fan5

2 жыл бұрын

I have velocity on DVD.

@philonetic321

Жыл бұрын

For anyone looking; The DVD is from 2004 so it's best to search for Velocity 2004 instead of 1999.

03:38 - Back when registration was tied around the steering column.

Back when bongo players had work...dig that cat

That was one Corn Ball Flick Baby

Love his 57 Ford. Also the real over- the - shoulder driving scenes. No phony rear projection

@johnbockelie3899

2 жыл бұрын

The end , they finally ran out of film.

3 time Academy Award winner, humble ,cool beginnings choppers and Hot Rods.

"We're splitting, it's a nowhere scene." Far out quote.

Hopefully this classic movie back in the day save some guy's life.

@mikekaup5252

10 ай бұрын

Most likely killed a few. Kids never get the picture. Got it Daddy O?

Harvey Berman (the producer/Director) became an acting teacher in Contra Costa College in Concord, Ca. He was my acting teacher when I attended his classes in 1979 - 1981. He mentioned directing this film and working with Jack and Roger Corman. He never did say why he did not continue directing films. I wish pressed him more on why.

@Mercmad

10 ай бұрын

He probably watched this and thought...damn this ,I'll take up teaching what not to do..

@karlfonner7589

10 ай бұрын

DVC? I went there at that time also

Goodness look how young he was! Thanks for posting

@justjeph6927

3 жыл бұрын

Its like he was born like that. He prolly came out of his mama and said, hey doc, could you get your hands off my ass?? I'd like to get outta here

@justjeph6927

3 жыл бұрын

That was swingin, man!

@kenneth69

10 ай бұрын

And skinny. Good lord he's skinny.

This HAS to be one of Nicholson's earliest roles. Maybe even the first one?

@Cimmerian415

10 ай бұрын

Maybe little Shop of Horrors?

LOVE the congo strut at the beginning yeah babi

Johnny: "I want you to take that trophy and hold it between your knees!!"

I dug it, cats. Like a mortality play for the ages.

@-oiiio-3993

11 ай бұрын

_Mortality_ play? Was the pun intentional?

The soundtrack is, like, cool daddy-o. Seems like Jack has had that deep crease in his forehead since he was born. I like how these kids talk like hardened inner city punks but look like harmless suburban teenagers.

@justjeph6927

3 жыл бұрын

Like we tried to. Lol

@leonstefan6183

10 ай бұрын

Those bongo drums in the chase sene music had my toes tapping andmy finger snapping. Wish they could have squeezed in a couple of kids with a houla-hoop.

@thomaspeters5889

10 ай бұрын

In response, a modern 20 something with face tattoos is no one to be afraid of but you'd better be careful with these '60 era kids because they were actually dangerous.

@jimthigpen333

27 күн бұрын

That’s the way it was maaaan. Candy cigarets and non alcoholic apple beer maaaan.

Dig them crazy bongos Daddy o..

Jack has always been the cool one. Great film.

Jack was driftin’ on the dirt track before driftin’ was even a thing! All those other cats were real squaresville man.

@-oiiio-3993

11 ай бұрын

Board track racers of the 1920s did it, and with no brakes.

Lovin' the dig-a-delic vibes man This flick ant for squares daddy-o

The Pride of Manasquan, NJ HS!

Dirt track, no fenders, no roll bars, no " F's " given and a cheap plastic face shield. Brutal.

Big Johnny don't dig talkin' to The Man, Daddy-O. 😎☕🚬

That Was Wild Man!

Jack Nicholson always plays a great anti-hero!

No generation without it's Rebels.

Jack was so handsome.

excellent

"Crazy Jack" in one of his tamer roles.

All those hep cats are now in their 80s and beyond.

@handsomeman-pm9vy

10 ай бұрын

Move over you're blocking the action. Nothing could beat a boss 1967 Mustang.

@-oiiio-3993

10 ай бұрын

@@handsomeman-pm9vy In 1960? There was no Mustang until mid - 1964 and the Boss 302 did not exist in 1967. It was developed in 1968 for the 1969 SCCA racing season, also used in 1970. Your time machine needs adjustment.

@handsomeman-pm9vy

10 ай бұрын

@@-oiiio-3993 "Boss" was early 1960s slang for super or great.

@-oiiio-3993

10 ай бұрын

@@handsomeman-pm9vy Mid to late 1960s (I was there), and the film was still made in 1960.

"It was just a truck... You can't go shallow". Who comes up with these lines ? Doesn't hold up against "Five Easy Pieces" "OK, I'll make it as easy for you as I can. I'd like an omelette, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce, and a cup of coffee"

🏁🏎...🏎🏎Roger Corman is never a Bore..Man🎼🎵🎶

I’m sure all Jack wanted to forget this turkey. Not one of his finer performances.

@MikeGreenwood51

10 ай бұрын

I don't think so at all. He was looking for his big break and if The Wild One (1953) and James Dean were the hottest movies in the USA in the fifties then Nicholson the rebelious fifties subversive would want to ride that sixties surfboard as far as he could take it. All the way to the beach or back. But he continues to the bigger breakers and rolls in to Easy Rider (1969).

@lesterhutchins1621

10 ай бұрын

This was just being cool

@UberLummox

9 ай бұрын

You're a real drag, man. I bet you're fun at parties.

That was one bad flick, man.

these are sure some wild hellions !!

Get the hell off my lawn! Damn kids.

Two Words come to mind: HEEEERRRREEE'S JOHNNY!.. 😂

I wish I had a pair of bongos

@jimthigpen333

27 күн бұрын

Go out and play chicken with a moving van on a two lane road and earn a set maaaaan. 😂

Like those cats wouldn't be my scene man you dig lol

@jeph33

11 ай бұрын

Oh I dig, I do, man! Like, is this NorCal?😎

@-oiiio-3993

11 ай бұрын

_Crazy._

@jomamma1750

10 ай бұрын

You always were a square....

@michaelgonzales7668

10 ай бұрын

I like that you sound like you were there and were part of the action.

@jessejames7757

10 ай бұрын

Don't be a square daddyO

Not sure why but I've watched this movie dozens of times over the years.

@michaelreyes8182

10 ай бұрын

really?...well you're easy to please. Ol Jack watches this and laughs. Corny and senseless!

@GLDENGLOVES

10 ай бұрын

20 mins is about all I could take

OK, that one just made me have to become a PizzaFlix subscriber

I can dig scoring this movie man, don't mean to be square Dad, but, I'm on the couch watching TV. Never saw this one and it's a fun one, Jack was great, the cool slang, pretty snazzy tunes too.!

Reminds me of racing through the I 90 tunnel west of Lake Washington going east. That was in Seattle back un the early 60's. My freind had a 34 Plymouth coupe with a 57 Olds J series trupower engine. We would open the headers, lower the door windows and race at was about 2 in the morning Whst a great sound. I had a 64 GTO and raced it in the tunnel also. Street racing is stupid but fun.

Crazy Man Crazy

As they would have said back then, the plot was no-where's-ville, man.

@mgmurphy1

9 ай бұрын

To say nothing of the dialogue, man.

A very young & skinny Jack.

Johnny’s good with the old “church key”!

JACK NICHOLSON = 86

Nicholson's 57 Ford, from the factory came with high performance 390. The star of the movie

@mikekaup5252

10 ай бұрын

No, it came with a 312 Y block stroker. Tripower was an option. My aunt bought one new. She has Smitty glass pack dual exhaust.

@UberLummox

9 ай бұрын

Yup 312 or 292, daddio. No 390 until about mid-'60s. Could however get a Paxton supercharger in '57, but that was mighty rare. Moral of the story - don't talk about stuff you don't know about, man. It ain't cool, daddio. 😁

Not usually into these kinds of movies, but this is a good one. When I was about two my (half)sister was riding on the back of the driver's seat in a convertible obviously, and the lot of them were doing stupid speeds on narrow roads. The driver hit a bridge abutment sending everyone over and down the steep incline to the river below. No one survived. Utterly stupid.

Wow

Dragsville baby, young cat got clipped.

Interesting character played by a very interesting actor. Amazing that you can watch these old movies while taking a diarrhea shit in the comfort of your own home

@-oiiio-3993

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing?

@barry393

10 ай бұрын

But in the theater, you could change seats.

@JamesWalters007

10 ай бұрын

@@barry393 🤮... 😂

Nice '57 Ford Convert....and probably a "312" T-Bird Special motor to boot.

I can dig it man

Early Jaack. For young Hopper I recommend Night Tide. Enjoy!😎

Dig the swingin' scene with those hep daddy-o's and far-out chicks!

Jack drives a convertable in this and Chinatown and The Two Jakes . Are there any more ?

Back when teenagers were in their 30's. Nowadays, anyone over 10 years-old are toddlers, including those on Social Security, who play computer games and watch cartoons.

Far out Man

@handsomeman-pm9vy

10 ай бұрын

That expression came 10 years later.

I never saw it before, because I never saw Nicholson this young before. "Early" Nicholson, to me, was "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" and "The Shining." But seeing him in this, at this early age, it is clear as day to me: Young Tom Cruise, as we knew him in his younger days...was Cruise imitating Young Jack Nicholson.

Jack must have been about 20 when he made this.

Geeze I always figured that crease in Jack's forehead was acquired through old age - I guess not !

This is the longest 59 minute movie I've ever seen....could it go any slower I wonder.

@JamesWalters007

10 ай бұрын

😆

Like wow man,cheese it it's the fuzz..

🐕💚🍕 dogs like pizza 🤠 I saw the JAG begin to swerve and then he went off of DEAD MAN'S CURVE 🤠 DOGS LIKE PIZZA 🐕💚🍕

If anyone knows where the location is in this film would appreciate knowing. It looks a bit more like Central to Northern California Coast than Southern. Also can't find out the musicians who did the 50's "cool" jazz soundtrack. Any ideas ? For the time, that ain't a half bad soundtrack. Got to dig those bongos for cars racing, man.

@PChonga

3 жыл бұрын

Much of the location footage was shot in Contra Costa County. The Contra Costa Speedway in Pacheco (near Martinez) and the Pioneer Inn in Clayton CA. Neither exist today.

@brucekugler5164

3 жыл бұрын

@@PChonga Hey, Charles, I really appreciate that. I used to live in Pinole and El Sobrante, and some of the hills and terrain reminded me of Contra Costa County. It makes sense and sure appreciate you responding to my question. Than you ! How did you find this out ?

@brucekugler5164

3 жыл бұрын

@@PChonga Yea, Charles, I just looked up Pioneer Inn and to see where Clayton is. It's interesting to get some history built up in one's life, to see how things have changed, and what has remained over the years. No great insight, but money is the biggest difference thinking about my little home town on the N.J. seaboard. My dad bought our house in 1953 ? for about 20 grand. It was a middle class town, but plenty of working people. Our little ranch house, very conservative sold for over a half million bucks, and unless you are making a lot of money, it's impossible to buy back there anymore. It's like that in many places, and small towns and ma and pop business' are no more. People shop and work outside of towns.

@mrabrasive51

2 жыл бұрын

I lived in Concord just a few miles from Clayton..I was only 3 when this came out.

@karlfonner7589

10 ай бұрын

As a Contra Costan, I appreciate this information

Nicholson's first, I believe,was "TheTerror" with Boris Karloff

Ohhh daddy Oooooh like wow

@johnbockelie3899

2 жыл бұрын

Are half of these teenagers over 20 ?. These kids would be in their 80's or 90's by now.

@handsomeman-pm9vy

10 ай бұрын

"It's the host with the most."

Ascot ??

This was an attempt to cash in on the beatnik And the Hot Rod things.Notice the cool jazz background instead of Rock and Roll...

Little House of Horrors and this wonder....cars are cooler than the celluloid

Oh, man! Talk about teen angst, daddy-o. 😂

@mgmurphy1

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, this was set in the midst of the teen-angst, James dean era. Later in the decade, Jack and the crew discovered psychedelics, grew their hair out and got all "groovy" on us. Hence Easy Rider and a whole new era of youthful rebellion ensued. Of course, Vietnam played a big role. Looking back, movies like this one (and the beach pictures) denote how innocent we were, coming out of the 1950s. Vietnam changed all that; yet Jack remained viable and, through the movies he made, left for posterity an interesting and valuable record of what life was (is) like in America throughout the last 6-plus decades. Lame as it is, The Wild Ride is part of that record.

The movie even quotes 'the Wild One' as if to say- we are signifying youth/rebellion, but we have a '50s morality ending. worn out bongos and 'far out' too. Bring on the surf movies.

@dcraexon134

10 ай бұрын

the fx of leaded cups gasoline paint and piping was evident

Wow, a very young and svelte Jack Nicholson in his spoiled brat/rebel without a cause phase. The guy couldn't twist up the beer can and they had to use "church keys" to open the cans. What a hoot. But there is no doubt that Nicholson went on to be one very fine actor.

@igni8554

5 жыл бұрын

Spoiled yeah maybe, alpha male though - definitely.

@Jptoutant

5 жыл бұрын

@@igni8554 eew

@-oiiio-3993

11 ай бұрын

Those cans were steel and much thicker than today's aluminum cans. Pull tabs had not yet been devised.

@SBluesBrotherhood

10 ай бұрын

Depends on who you ask, but the pull tab beer can wasn't available until around 1960 or so. So "church keys" were 100% necessary back then!!!

I guess you would have to be from this Era to really like this type of film, I only liked the cars.

See what you were missing Kool Kool baby

Dave’s not here.

It was different in street racing. But too bad about Dave

Those where some hairy beavers.

Low quality production but Jack Nicholson was showing his potential at age 23. When was the phrase "f* you" invented? It sure could have been applied several times in this movie.

Did I make a record....funny, but not right

Dead man's curve.

@handsomeman-pm9vy

10 ай бұрын

What? You have insulted me and I demand satisfaction. We race cars tonight at Dead man's curve.

Johnny is the ginchiest

All the “Cats” & “Chicks”

@handsomeman-pm9vy

10 ай бұрын

All the "Cats and Chicks" can get their kicks at the hop. Danny and the Juniors -- 1958

It's like these cats are all hepped up on goof balls.

God. Ch

I didn't realize Americans had personal ID's back then or even now.

@Mercmad

10 ай бұрын

They sleep walked into it...pretty much the same as now.

@mikekaup5252

10 ай бұрын

Personal ID cards are available .

Look studs, You and your chicks don't dig this action you're out. Like infinity baby.

Hope Johnny didn’t stay in the Overlook Hotel…😆😆

I wonder if they knew he was famous way back then.

@MikeGreenwood51

10 ай бұрын

He was not 'famous way back then'.

@tpe54

10 ай бұрын

@@MikeGreenwood51 LOL!

@woodskier

10 ай бұрын

the establishment corporation determines who is famous.

@Mercmad

10 ай бұрын

@@woodskier Thats why he embraces cultural Marxism

Beatniks are out to make it rich.

@johnsilva9139

10 ай бұрын

Must be the season of the witch!

you would believe that this could kill anyone's acting career....but no.

@moonshinefuel

10 ай бұрын

no kidding, wth this was screwed up in so many ways

@woodydavis8287

10 ай бұрын

This was part of the dead teenager genre. No seat belts, no air bags, no door bars, drum brakes all the way around, Single master cylinder. A thousand ways to die. Where were you in 1960?

Even Jack couldn't carry this movie. Hipster nonsensical BS, they were so hip they couldn't even understand each other.

@Bikedueder

10 ай бұрын

I will say though, I am big fan of Jack's and the last 15 minutes were way better than the beginning.

Back in the good old days before they ratified the constitution.

Calls the Cop a "Stud." Sort of like the Hippies, a few years later-trying to get 4F-instead of being sent to The 'Nam- by making passes at the Brass at the induction centers.

@JamesWalters007

10 ай бұрын

😆

It's too bad these types of movies influenced so many young people to be idiots.

@justjeph6927

3 жыл бұрын

If you gotta blame, can you start with the parents please??

@spartaeus

3 жыл бұрын

@@justjeph6927 Yes, exactly! The dumb ass parents who let their children be influenced and conditioned by having a television in their house.

@justjeph6927

3 жыл бұрын

@@spartaeus I'm a product of that..left alone to watch for hours. I wised up tho, and discovered books...

@spartaeus

3 жыл бұрын

@@justjeph6927 I was too. I remember many boring days in new york city, in a little apartment , with nothing to do but watch television. Took me years to figure out that real people don't, or shouldnt act or behave like people on tv. Years of trial and lots of errors.

@plutoplatters

3 жыл бұрын

AND... it continues ON !!

Script written by adults who think they've got the "hip lingo". A tad embarrassing!

Almost watchable but didn't make the grade.

😳🤳 👙

If you like this watch "quadrophenia" and "made in Britain" coz they are much better than this film,much respect to Jack though.