Wild Riders

Motorcycle gang members Pete and Stick rape and murder Pete's girl friend as punishment for sleeping with a black gang member, Kelly. Later, the dimwitted Stick wonders how Pete could kill someone he loved, but Pete believes that she deserved her fate. When the police begin an investigation, the gang leaders decide to head west to California, but inform Pete and Stick that they must strike out on their own. Before the gang disperses, Pete beats up Kelly, winning only with Stick's help. With nowhere else to go, the two friends head to Los Angeles, arriving there broke and hungry. At the Griffith Park Observatory, Pete uses a telescope to spot two beautiful women sunbathing in the Hollywood Hills. The men find the house and pull up outside, where Pete instructs Stick to follow his lead. He approaches Rona, whose husband Will, a classical cellist, is once again on tour. Bored and neglected, Rona finds Pete attractive and so allows him and Stick into the pool area. When her friend Laure disapproves, Rona accuses her of spurious moralizing and insists that "a few laughs" are just what Laure needs. Rona feeds the men and takes Pete into the pool house, where they make love. Inside, meanwhile, Laure shies away from Stick and inadvertently places a frog statue in front of him. Assuming she is mocking him, Stick attacks in fury, beating and raping her. Afterward, she crawls, dazed, to the pool house. Pete is furious with Stick but loyally defends him, accusing Laure of having provoked the attack. Knowing they have ruined their chance of staying at the house peacefully, Pete ties up the women and announces that the men are now the "hosts" and the women the "guests." Disdaining the women's wealth and privilege, the bikers terrorize them by revealing their murderous pasts. Pete leaves to visit a biker bar, where Kelly and another gang member, Stud, are drinking. When Pete asks for help finding a fence for Rona's artwork and jewels, Stud's girl, Gemini, offers the name of a friend whose father Tom owns an antique store. In thanks, Pete promises Laure to Stud. Another gang member spots Pete and, recalling an earlier fight, follows him when Pete leaves the bar. Pete sees him, however, and after a chase through the hills, evades his pursuer. He returns to Rona's, where he gathers Rona's collectibles. Rona spits on Pete, prompting him to stand on her hand. As Rona offers Pete cash instead of the artworks, her friend Perry phones, and Pete forces her to get rid of Perry without raising his suspicions. Pete then goes to Tom's store, where Tom has just beaten his pretty daughter and now scornfully gives Pete only $100 for the stolen goods. Meanwhile, Stick falls asleep and Rona convinces Laure to try to untie their hands. Once free, they struggle to locate the car keys, then drive through the closed garage door to escape. As they pull out of the driveway, Pete returns, and Rona cannot resist trying to run him down. She is unable to complete the task, however, and he drags her out of the stopped car and ties up the women again. Leaving Laure inside, Pete throws Rona on his bike and drives her recklessly through the hills to terrify her. He stops in a field, where she embraces him and makes love to him willingly. Back home, Rona overhears Pete making plans with Tom's daughter to attack her father and give part of the profits to Stud. Just then, Perry visits, and after Rona fails to convince him to leave, Pete attacks him. Pete is losing when Stick jumps in, killing Perry. Pete then returns to Tom's, where he beats the older man to death and takes his money. At home, Rona has told Stick that Pete is framing him for the murders and leaving for Mexico with Stud. Rona convinces Stick to follow Pete to Mexico and take her and Laure with him, but as they are about to drive off, Will suddenly returns from his tour. They run into the house and when Will enters, Stick assaults him. Pete returns, and in response to Stick accusing him of deserting him, Pete punches Stick into submission, shouting "I love you!" Realizing Rona's ploy, Pete announces that she has killed herself, Laure and Will, then forces Will to play the cello. Pete rants to Rona that Will loves the cello more than her, to which she sadly agrees, then states that he could have been a prodigy if he had had Will's money, refusing to listen when Will responds that his parents were poor and killed in the Holocaust. Will plays on, then suddenly drives the cello bow into Pete's eye, killing him. In the ensuing chaos, Will slams the priceless cello over Stick's head and drives him backward into the pool, where he drowns.