The Dirt Gang is a 1972 American action drama film directed by Jerry Jameson and starring Paul Carr, Michael Forest, Michael Pataki, Lee de Broux, Nanci Beck, Jon Shank, Nancy Harris, T.J. Escott, and Jessica Stuart.
Like all good Revenge Tragedies it has forebodings, prophecies and portents of doom throughout as the characters head towards their inevitable destinies.
The movie starts with a gas station robbery going wrong which Monk blames on Biff - a young biker who was supposed to be with them as their lucky charm.
They fool him in to leaving his car and callously knock him down with a bike before running over and killing him (as depicted in the film poster).
Monk is looking at his poster of Zeno, who had taken part in a bike duel with him causing him to lose an eye, and talking about his obsession with finding him for a rematch.
Monk leads the Dirt Gang towards Mexico and freedom from police pursuit but they come across a film company shooting a Western.
They go in to the food tent and start eating and laughing while the film company continue to make their movie.
Mary, Zeno's girlfriend is called to the tent by Beth and humiliated to much laughter from the gang.
From this moment on his obsession takes over and he is like a man possessed in his desperation to Death Duel with Zeno.
He was their ruler and they were his willing subjects unable to see that he is leading them down a destructive path through his obsession with Zeno.
Monk, on the other hand, is like Captain Ahab who sees Zeno as his Moby Dick who caused him to lose an eye.
The next scene reveals Zeno's Achilles Heel as Snake tries to molest Mary in the trailer.
Zeno rescues her and they flee in to the desert in a Dune Buggy only to be recaptured after a high speed chase.
When Monk points the shotgun down at Zeno Mary does not flinch but stares defiantly up silently warning him not to pull the trigger.
While the rest of the film crew are forced to 'party' with the bikers he allows Mary to sit with Zeno which saves her from being involved in the orgy which follows.
When Monk discovers that Zeno is missing he sees Mary sitting by herself and realises what has happened.
On the spur of the moment his obsession overrides all else and he allows Snake to start to molest her in front of Zeno.
Mary fights back but Snake pulls out a knife and starts to cut away at her clothes.
The only things to be heard are the night crickets and Mary's screams as she defiantly fights back.
It is also a marked contrast to the earlier scene in the trailer where Snake tries to molest her and Mary reacts like a rabbit frozen in headlights.
The film crew and Dirt Gang have all been irrevocably changed and broken by events.
The next morning Monk and Zeno face each other at opposite ends of the street like gunfighters on bikes.
The Death Duel begins and the two bikers try to defeat each other as they constantly race towards to each other like knights in a medieval joust.
Monk's obsession drives him on and he is determined to kill his opponent and gain revenge for the loss of his eye.
Ahab went to his doom having harpooned Moby Dick and then becoming accidentally entangled with it and dragged to his death.
Biff, Stormy and the rest of the Dirt Gang stare on at their dead leader with disbelief and grief as the camera slowly pulls away.
Their carefree days as a biker gang are over as Monk was the King, now fallen on the field of battle, who held them together.