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If Larry Bishop didn’t exist, Quentin Tarantino would have had to invent him. Mr. Bishop, the director and star of “Hell Ride,” which makes its premiere Friday, was a notorious hell-raiser in 1960s Hollywood. The son of the Rat Packer Joey Bishop, he appeared in dozens of motorcycle exploitation movies such as “The Savage Seven” (1968), then bumped into Mr. Tarantino almost seven years ago. Mr. Tarantino told Mr. Bishop he would produce a directorial project for him if Mr. Bishop would embrace his destiny to make the greatest motorcycle movie of all time. Mr. Bishop agreed, and so with Sergio Leone’s Westerns as their guiding star, they embarked on the long process of making “Hell Ride.”
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