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The Born Losers is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tom Laughlin released in USA on 12 july 1967 with Jeremy Slate
The Born Losers (1967)
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Add to a movie listBorn Losers is a 1968 action film and the first of the Billy Jack movies. The film introduced Tom Laughlin as the half-Indian Green Beret Vietnam veteran Billy Jack. Since 1954 Laughlin had been trying to produce his Billy Jack script about discrimination toward American Indians. In 1968 he decided to introduce the Billy Jack character in a quickly written script designed to capitalize on the then-popular trend in motorcycle gang movies. The story was based on a real incident from 1964 where members of the Hells Angels were arrested for raping five teenage girls in Monterey, California.
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Billy Jack is introduced as an enigmatic, half-Indian Vietnam War veteran who shuns society, taking refuge in the peaceful solitude of the California Central Coast mountains. His troubles begin when he descends from this unspoiled setting and drives into a small beach town named Big Rock (Morro Bay). A minor traffic accident in which a motorist hits a motorcyclist results in a savage beating by members of the Born Losers Motorcycle Club. The horrified bystanders (including Laughlin's wife, Delores Taylor, and their two children in cameo roles) are too afraid to help or be involved in any way. Billy Jack jumps into the fray and rescues the man by himself. At this point the police arrive and arrest Billy for using a rifle to stop the fight. (The irony here is that, unknown to Billy, the motorist is the one who starts the fight by inexplicably insulting one of the bikers.Actors
Jeremy Slate
(Daniel 'Danny' Carmody)
Tom Laughlin
(Billy Jack)
Jack Starrett
(Deputy Fred)
Jane Russell
(Mrs. Shorn)
Stuart Lancaster
Tom Laughlin
(1960)
(1967)
(1971)
(1974)
(1975)
(1977)
(1986)Comments
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