The world’s most notorious biker club is the subject of a captivating new A&e docuseries called Secrets of the Hells Angels. Their checkered history over the decades has included its share of criminal activity and acts of violence. Each episode brings insight from five former chapter presidents of the organization Charles “PeeWee” Goldsmith, Thomas Eriksen, Pat Matter, Matt Zanoskar, and George Christie. Viewers will also hear from law enforcement officers, undercover agents, victims, and others. Noel Barger, ex-wife of former influential leader Sonny Barger, also opens up for the first time about his motives and why their relationship crumbled. The premiere explores how retired Atf agent Jay Dobyns risked life and limb going undercover to infiltrate the Hells Angels. Jenna Maguire, a female agent who played his “old lady,” goes on record for the first time. From there topics range from Cleveland Hells Angels division and an assassination plot...
- 4/12/2024
- TV Insider
Ballpark Film Distributors has acquired all UK rights to Nick Mead’s The Last American Outlaw.
The film follows George Christie, the longest-serving Hells Angel president, as he rides across America seeing if it measures up to be the ‘land of the free’ that he imagines.
“We’d got as far as Arizona when George was arrested by the FBI and subsequently held under house arrest for 18 months,” said director Mead. “The cameras kept rolling, even when the Da’s office offered to drop all charges against him if he turned informer against the Hells Angels.”
The film is set to be releaed theatrically in the UK and Ireland in summer 2104, to coincide with Christie’s release from jail.
Ballpark’s Mark Thomas said: “The Last American Outlaw set out to discuss what freedom truly meant for people choosing to live their life on the margins of society. What we ended up with was a fight for the...
The film follows George Christie, the longest-serving Hells Angel president, as he rides across America seeing if it measures up to be the ‘land of the free’ that he imagines.
“We’d got as far as Arizona when George was arrested by the FBI and subsequently held under house arrest for 18 months,” said director Mead. “The cameras kept rolling, even when the Da’s office offered to drop all charges against him if he turned informer against the Hells Angels.”
The film is set to be releaed theatrically in the UK and Ireland in summer 2104, to coincide with Christie’s release from jail.
Ballpark’s Mark Thomas said: “The Last American Outlaw set out to discuss what freedom truly meant for people choosing to live their life on the margins of society. What we ended up with was a fight for the...
- 12/4/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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