The Choppers (1961)

Director:

Leigh Jason

Guionista:

Arch Hall Sr. (writer)

Release Date:

30 noviembre 1961 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A gang of teenage delinquents terrorize a small community by stealing cars and stripping them for parts, then selling the parts to a crooked junkyard owner. The police and an insurance company investigator set out to break up the gang. |

Plot Keywords:

Gang | Juvenile Delinquent | Independent Film

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Buzz out Mister, we love them chickens!

Cast

Arch Hall Jr.	...	Jack 'Cruiser' Bryan
Marianne Gaba	...	Liz
Robert Paget	...	Torch Lester (as Robert Padget)
Tom Brown	...	Tom Hart
Burr Middleton	...	Tony 'The Snooper' Panilli (as Mickey Hoyle)
Rex Holman	...	Flip Johnson (as Roye Baker)
Chuck Barnes	...	Ben Shore
William Shaw	...	Police Lt. Frank Fleming (as Bill Shaw)
Bruno VeSota	...	Moose McGill
Britt Wood	...	Cowboy Boggs
Dee Gee Green	...	Gypsy
Richard Cowl	...	Mr. Lester (as Richard S. Cowl)
Pat Hawley	...	Officer Jenks

Duración:

USA:66 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sonido:

Mono

Company:

Rushmore Productions

Trivialidades:

Film debut of Arch Hall Jr.

Goofs:

Continuity: The Choppers hook up a tow line to a car they find abandoned on the side of the road, a light-colored 1959 Buick two-door convertible, and tow it to a side road in order to strip it. However, when they come to the end of the road and unhook the car, it has turned into a dark-colored late-1940s four-door sedan. The same Buick again turns up near the end of the picture as the last car they try to strip.

Quotes:

Mr. Lester: [drunkenly, into microphone] I wanna tell the whole world something. Those cops, they ain't gonna take my boy Torch. There ain't enough cops in the whole world to take my boy Torch. You hear me? They ain't gonna take my boy Torch!
Jim Bradford: [taking away microphone] Ladies and gentlemen, when you pick up your morning newspaper and read about some youngster getting into trouble and wonder why... I think you've heard one good answer.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Wild Guitar (1962)

Soundtrack:

Monkey in My Hatband

Buzz out Mister, we love them chickens!

The Choppers is a fun hour filled B movie of youth gone wrong genre. Led by Cruiser (Arch Hall Jr), it's fun seeing how the gang operates. Man, dig that huge cell phone! Plus, see Arch in his hot rod tapping to the beat of his own song playing on the radio! Another shameless plug from Arch Hall Sr. who reminds me of the poor man's Walt Disney. Bruno VeSota, one of my favorite B actors, is great as Moose: the stubbly junkyard owner who smokes a stogie, is involved in shady deals, and takes a nap now and then. And what's up with Cowboy and his ballad "Entertain your lawyers"? For more laughs, watch Gypsy's face during the chase scene (she's got a great scream!). There's even a corny moral thrown in thanks to Torch's drunk Pop. The stereotypical 50s/60s B movie drunk is always a hoot to watch.

With a lot of slang and teen lingo and Conga Joe (hee hee ha!), it's fun to look back at deviance of yesteryear in this not wholly serious, yet entertaining flick.