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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788607288
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0788607286
Label: Dark Sky Films
Manufacturer: Dark Sky Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dark Sky Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 42127
Studio: Dark Sky Films
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
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Description:
It was a mission no one in their right mind would take: rescue a captured CIA operative from a highly-fortified Red Chinese compound in Cambodia at the height of the Vietnam War. Enter The Devil's Advocates-- a red-knuckled, freewheeling, hellraising biker gang comprised largely of war veterans. Led by Link Thomas (screen legend William Smith) and loosely supervised by U.S. Army Capt. Jackson (the inimitable Bernie Hamilton), the curiously good-hearted gang drink and laugh and love and fight their way through the scenic countryside before retrofitting a slew of Yamaha motorcycles into armor-plated machines of death and destruction. And that's when the real fun begins... but at a high price!
Directed by cinema maverick Jack Starrett (Race with the Devil, Cleopatra Jones) and written by Alan Caillou (Kingdom of the Spiders, Evel Knievel), this wild cross-genre exploitation picture has been beautifully remastered in high definition from the original 35mm negatives.'
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Rating: - Maybe the COOLEST low budget action movie of the 70's!!
I gave this movie four stars because is NOT action-packed! The only action scenes are in the first three minutes and in the last 20 minutes but those two scenes were WILD, FAST, VIOLENT, EXPLOSIVE AND WITH COOL SLOW-MO SHOOTING!!!!
This movie is just like The Dirty Dozen but on stereoids! I mean... these 5 mercenary bikers are like wild animals and the US army release them to attack an entire enemy base with machine guns and rocket launchers that are attached to their bikes.
For a 70's movie this was like "Rambo", but on low budget. If you like movies with a FREAKING COOL EXPLOSIVE conclusion like Scarface then this one is for you.
P.S: I could say that this movie is better than Mad Max because of the action scenes, but Mad Max have a better concept.
Rating: - "Losers" is Great Drive-In Trash From 1970
"The Losers" is an exciting melding of Hell's Angels/Vietnam War/Hippie
Rebel genres. As such, it is a quickly-made, Philippines-shot, outrageous
hunk of violent exploitation. But the well-written script allows for
interesting character-development, and criticism not only of the Vietnam
War but of U.S. Government Establishment figures, shown here as a weasely
C.I.A. super-agent.
The young film viewers of 1970 could decide which "Loser" they liked
best: the brawny but sensitive Cowboy, the romantic NYC Romeo, the
Tie-Dyed Hippie-Stoner Kid, the "ZZ Top" Southern Bubba, or the paunchy,
balding, racist, but brave Pigpen. (Not their actual movie-names).
The Losers knew their daring raid into neutral Cambodia would never earn
them respect in the U.S.A., but they do it anyway. Then why-- for
patriotism, for excitement, for a chance to kill alot of Red soldiers?
Anyway, this is one Red compound where prisoners are given a choice of
cigarettes or a bag of weed to help while away the evening.
"The Losers" has enough shootings, stabbings, explosions, and wild
Yamaha scrambling through the jungle and grass shacks to satisfy the
most jaded action fan. Remember it was "The Losers" that Bruce Willis
was watching in a motel room in "Pulp Fiction," so it's an icon to Mr.
Tarantino. But you are repeatedly shown innocent civilians being killed,
so it is not entirely escapist ... Read More
Rating: - Bikers in Nam
Featuring the man, the myth, the legend, William Smith. Bikers showing the military how to fight Charlie Cong. Smith leads his gang to break into a prison camp in Cambodia including Paul Koslo (THE OMEGA MAN), Adam Roake (HELLS ANGELS ON WHEELS, DIRTY MARY,CRAZY LARRY), ETC. They don't make 'em like this anymore -- probably because most of the drive-ins this thing would have played in have been torn down. This was the Golden Age of biker films. Once it passed we would not see its like again. Forget THE DEERHUNTER, PLATOON, APOCALYPSE NOW -- if you want to know what it was like see this movie!
Rating:  - Made in 1970, that the key for me
The quality of the acting is two stars, the plot well is cycles, bullets, bodies and the CIA. Yep that covers the plot. Look this is an example of cheap low buget fim making of the late sixties and early sevenites. This was cranked out for teenage boys to go to see at drive ins or the cheap theatres in their town to see. Roger Corman started these types of movies and spawned hundreds of copy cat movies. Th only reason to see this is to relive a time of American history or to see what GRIND HOUSE was paying tribute to. These were trash then and now they are kind of funny to watch.
However for me this movie means more. I can tell you exactly where and when I saw this movie and even the seat where I sat. I saw this one in Amarillo, Tx. at the State Theatre. I was in the balcony on the left side on the front row. I went to see this movie becasue the theatre was having a Sneal Preview with it. So for the price one, you got to see two moives and in 1970 that was a big deal. I remember thae audience hoop and hollored through LOSERS. The sneak came up and on the screen was the picture of some Army helicopters flying through some green hills. I though okay another war movie. Then four initals came up on the screen-M.A.S.H and the rest was history. You never a forget your first time to see a classic movie.
Rating: - "Look, you hired scooter trash for this job and that's what you got."
If you frequented the drive-ins in the late 1960s/early 1970s, you may not recognize the name Joe Solomon, but you're probably familiar with some of the films he released through his independent company called Fanfare Film Production, Inc., most notably his extremely popular motorcycle pictures like Hells Angels on Wheels (1967), Angels from Hell (1968), Run, Angel, Run (1969), and this one, titled The Losers (1970) aka Nam's Angels, not to be confused with the 1988 film Nam Angels, which was essentially the same story, but with lesser production values and none of the star power, directed by Cirio H. Santiago. This film, written by Alan Caillou (Village of the Giants, Kingdom of the Spiders) and directed by Jack Starrett (Run, Angel, Run, Cleopatra Jones, Race with the Devil), features legendary B movie actor William Smith (Run, Angel, Run, Any Which Way You Can, Conan the Barbarian). Also appearing is Bernie Hamilton (Hammer), Adam Roarke (Psych-Out, Frogs), Houston Savage, Eugene Cornelius (Run, Angel, Run), Vic Diaz (Black Mama, White Mama, The Big Bird Cage), and Paul Koslo (Vanishing Point, The Omega Man), sporting one of the more ridiculous perms I've seen in awhile.
Smith plays Lincoln `Link' Thomas, leader of a small motorcycle gang known as the Devils Advocates, who have been hired by the American army to ride into Cambodia to rescue a captured CIA operative named Chet Davis (played by the director himself), something the army couldn't do because officially, there was no war in ... Read More
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