Watch The Born Losers (1967) Free Online

Release Date: 1967

Cast: Stuart Lancaster, William Wellman Jr., Elizabeth James, Susan Foster, Jeremy Slate, Robert Tessier, Jeff Cooper, Jane Russell, Tom Laughlin, Paul Prokop, Anne Bellamy, Paul Bruce ...MORE

Cast: Stuart Lancaster, William Wellman Jr., Elizabeth James, Susan Foster, Jeremy Slate, Robert Tessier, Jeff Cooper, Jane Russell, Tom Laughlin, Paul Prokop, Anne Bellamy, Paul Bruce, William A. Wellman, Jack Starrett ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Biker Film, Outlaw biker film, Indie, Action, Action/Adventure, Action Thrillers

This article is about the film. You may be looking for the song Born Losers. 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 Beret Vietnam 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... MORE

This article is about the film. You may be looking for the song Born Losers. 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 Beret Vietnam 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. The movie was filmed on location in California at Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Rancho Palos Verdes, UCLA, Big Sur, and other coastal areas. According to Laughlin's DVD audio commentary, filming was completed in just 3 weeks on an operating budget of $160,000. To cut costs, a stunt scene of a biker crashing into a pond was taken from American International's 1966 comedy The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. The movie was not released until 1968 (according to the book "The Bible On Film: A Checklist, 1897-1980" by Richard LESS