Trailer Tuesday: Born Losers 1967

[Video Link] "These are the Born Losers. The sickest sicko gang that ever terrorized a town, while the law stood helpless." It stars Tom "Billy Jack" Laughlin.

Wikipedia has a good article about the movie:

Born Losers is a 1967 action film and the first of the Billy Jack movies. The film introduced Tom Laughlin as the half-Indian Green BeretVietnam veteran Billy Jack. Since 1954 Laughlin had been trying to produce his Billy Jack script about discrimination toward American Indians. In 1967 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 two teenage girls in Monterey, California.

Born Losers

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That ridiculous scream-to-sob at 1:31 needs to turn into a meme, and it’d be a better one than the wilhelm.
http://www.somelovemusic.com/ Tuff Luke

This movie is amazing. Oddly enough, Elizabeth James only had one other, smaller, role before disappearing into the Ether. It was as a dispatcher in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.

You need to see this movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xE-68P4ao
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JVBSSPZF23WYP5MNWIPGJGQN7U Andrew

the movie made me sick in 1967 and the trailer is still sick. The Billy Jack guy was one of the worst actors in history. They made a semi-major motion picture starring him and it was worse than this one.

The movie was so bad, the acting so wooden, that it was kinda camp (a good old 70′s word).
yupgiboy

Before all you kids get ultra hip and clamor to make fun of this movie, know that these films (there were four of them) were independents done in a DIY spirit by writer/producer/director/actor Tom Laughlin. You know, the same kind of off Hollywood films you all would clamor to support today.
- http://www.facebook.com/brianrazencain Brian Cain
  
  Allow me to break this to you gently, a movie can be both independent and full of DIY spirit and still be an atrocity.
  
  Mr. Laughlin you can have a seat right over there next to Mr. Wood
Teller

Billy Jack, the spiritual ass kicker.
yupgiboy

But they weren’t atrocities, Brian. They were highly successful independent films that were cultural landmarks of the time. Sorry to have to break that to you.
- http://www.facebook.com/brianrazencain Brian Cain
  
  “cultural landmines of the time.”
  
  FTFY
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=521240745 Ryan Griffin

Seen it. Good biker camp. Death Race 2000 was way better though :P
Chris Tucker

There’s less self-righteous preaching in Jesus Camp than there is in any Billy Jack movie.
lewis_stoole

two thumbs up! way up! (my thumbs, not siskel and eberts)
http://profiles.google.com/redwolfoz * Red Wolf

Thanks to this film I’ve always known those hideous white, thick-framed sunglasses as “Born Losers Sunglasses”, a reference that sod all people seem to know
hassan-i-sabbah

Liked the denim jacket with the stitched “m” on the breast pocket.
”Mangler” perhaps?
http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

I especially like how the trailer seems to tell you 80% of the story.