This is what an exploitation movie should be. It is filled with allusions to and actual on-screen rape, biker beatings, mean-spirited treatment of those female and infirm, gory revenge, teenage nudity, lots of hot babes in swimsuits, and Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin). Yes, this film introduces Billy Jack, the spiritual Charles Bronson, who defends a town against a plague of rapist bikers. The strange but tasty Elizabeth James, who also wrote the crazy script, plays a buxom free spirit on two wheels who tangles with the bikers and comes off second best. Billy forms a close friendship with her and becomes instrumental in her life by breaking heads and defending her lost honor. The screenplay is no masterpiece and there are dozens of plot holes, but this fine piece of savage 70's exploitation succeeds by sheer balls. The bikers, led by the irrepressible Jeremy Slate, are a totally psychopathic bunch with obvious homosexual bents. In fact, the homo-eroticism of George Miller's bikers in "Mad Max" was surely inspired by this highly influential gem. Not to be missed!
Review of The Born Losers
