Masters of Menace
1990 film
Masters of Menace is a 1990 comedy film about a motorcycle gang.
Plot
The Masters of Menace are a motorcycle club. When one of their own dies while testing his top fuel Harley, they decide to cross the country to go bury him. With the coffin in the back of the pick-up truck and the tight-butt lawyer in the front, their craving for beer combined with lack of manners will disturb quite a few people wherever they go, including law enforcement.
Cast
David Rasche as Buddy Wheeler
Catherine Bach as Kitty Wheeler
Tino Insana as Hank "Horny Hank"
Lee Ving as Roy "Roy Boy"
David Bowe as Joe "Sloppy Joe"
Lonnie Parkinson as Frank "Fat Frank"
Carol Ann Susi as Candy Colletti
John Hazelwood as Larry "Lazy Larry"
David L. Lander as "Squirt"
C.E. Grimes as Chester
Chris Oswald as "Wizard"
Mike Petta as Mike
Bill Reid as Bill
Sam Turner as Sam
Lance Kinsey as Wallace Wolfby
Dan Aykroyd as Johnny Lewis
Jim Belushi as "Gypsy"
John Candy as Beer Truck Driver
George Wendt as Dr. Jack Erheart
Teri Copley as Sunny
Ray Baker as Riley Hoover
Malcolm Smith as Dick Schonweiller
George Buck Flower as Sheriff Julip
Robert Costanzo as Pilot
Ron Taylor as Man At Door
Home media
The film was released on VHS in the United States by RCA/Columbia.
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