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The Choppers (1961)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. Director:Leigh JasonWriter:Arch Hall Sr. |
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Title: The Choppers (1961)
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Arch Hall Jr. | ... |
Jack 'Cruiser' Bryan
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Torch Lester
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Burr Middleton | ... |
Snooper
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Rex Holman | ... |
Flip Johnson
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Chuck Barnes | ... |
Ben Shore
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Tom Brown | ... |
Tom Hart
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Marianne Gaba | ... |
Liz
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William Shaw | ... |
Police Lt. Frank Fleming
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Bruno VeSota | ... |
Moose McGill
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Britt Wood | ... |
Cowboy Boggs
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Dee Gee Green | ... |
Gypsy
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Richard Cowl | ... |
Torch's Father
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Patrick Hawley | ... |
Officer Jenks
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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.
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30 November 1961 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Burbank City Hall - 275 E. Olive Ave, Burbank, California, USACompany Credits
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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.
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Music and Lyrics by Arch Hall Jr.
Sung by Arch Hall Jr.
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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. See more »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.
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"Monkey in My Hatband"Music and Lyrics by Arch Hall Jr.
Sung by Arch Hall Jr.
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As bad as this should be, it's kind of fun, and you could actually find yourself watching it a second and third time. Arch Hall Jr. was 16 when this was shot, and even gets a writing credit.
What makes it work, kind of, is that the gang of car-stripping JD's are NOT stupid and embarrassing, but halfway interesting and believable. And it's got Bruno VeSota at his scintillating, stogie-smelling, sausage-fingered best. Continuity? Fageddaboudit. But it's got a simple little story to tell and does it well.
And it does feature the inimitable "Monkeys In My Hatband," which you'll play again and again with your jaw dropped, wishing that YOUR dad had put YOU in a movie when YOU were sixteen and let you play that absolutely dumbass song you made up on the crappy $39 guitar you got for your thirteenth birthday and drove everybody crazy with.
"The Choppers" IS available, but you'll have to hunt for it. Definitely worth tracking down if you're huge on beatniks, juvies, and playing chicken.