Rebel Highway — Season 1, Episode 8: Jailbreakers
Drama, Crime • 76 min • 1 season, 10 episodes • ★ 8.0/10
Episode synopsis
15-year-old high school cheerleader Angel falls in love with Tony, a leather-clad, dope-smoking biker. When Tony robs two jewelry stores, Angel’s local reputation is soiled, and her parents move the family to Bakersfield for a new beginning. But Tony soon makes a desperate escape from jail and goes hunting for his girlfriend.
About Rebel Highway
Rebel Highway is a 1994 revival of American International Pictures, created and produced by Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff, and Debra Hill for the Showtime network. The concept was a ten-week series of 1950s "drive-in classic" B-movies remade "with a '90s edge". Each episode shares a title with a late 1950s-early 1960s-era AIP film. However, they are not remakes; each installment is a different story from that which they are titled. The impetus for the series, according to Arkoff was, 'what it would be like if you made Rebel Without a Cause today. It would be more lurid, sexier, and much more dangerous, and you definitely would have had Natalie Wood's top off'.