Pink Angels is a 1971 American outlaw biker comedy film directed by Larry G. Brown, starring John Alderman, Tom Basham, Robert Biheller, Bruce Kimball, Henry Olek and Maurice Warfield.
The film is notable for its brutal ending, an abrupt and violent scene showing the Pink Angels in the aftermath of their own lynching – their punishment for cross-dressing – as 'God Bless America' plays in the background.
The film's conclusion takes the form of a jump-cut to a scene where the Pink Angels are shown hanging from a tree, having been lynched – not for being a biker gang but for cross-dressing.
(Excessively brutal, violent ends were often typical for LGBTQ+ characters in the decades following the implementation of the Hays Code, both as a way to depict LGBTQ+ lifestyles as 'deviant' and to serve as a 'moral' warning to the public.)
Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that while the humour "gets campy", the satire is "quite gentle and goodnatured, so much so that the enlightened tone of their film compensates for any number of technical awkwardnesses, especially in the pacing of various scenes."