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1* CastTheExpert: Creator/RogerCorman actually used several members of the real Hell's Angels as extras.
2* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/GeorgeChakiris and Creator/PeterFonda were originally cast as Heavenly Blues and Loser, respectively. However, Chakiris could not ride a motorcycle, so he was replaced by Fonda, and Creator/BruceDern took Fonda's original role as Loser.
3* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
4** Greece: ''Hell Angels of Asphalt''
5** Italy: ''The Savages''
6** Romania: ''The Angels of Death''
7** Spain: ''The Angels of Hell''
8* InspirationForTheWork: Creator/RogerCorman became interested in making a film about the Hells Angels after seeing a photo in the January 1966 of ''Magazine/{{Life}}'' magazine for a biker funeral.
9* RealLifeRelative: Loser and his wife Gaysh are played by then husband and wife in real life Creator/BruceDern and Creator/DianeLadd.
10* UncreditedRole: Creator/PeterBogdanovich did uncredited rewrites to the screenplay.
11* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Charles B. Griffith's first draft of the screenplay was a near-silent movie which contrasted the bikers with the story of a police motorcycle cop. Corman did not like it and ordered rewrites, eventually giving it to Peter Bogdanovich to rewrite. Bogdanovich later estimated that he rewrote 80% of the script.

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