''The Choppers'' is a 1961 American
crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Leigh Jason
Leigh Jason (July 26, 1904 – February 19, 1979) was an American film director and screenwriter. He was born in New York, New York, and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
He married Ruth Harriet Louise in 1927 at Temple B'nai B'rith, wi ...
and starring
Arch Hall Jr.
Arch Hall Jr. (born December 2, 1943) is an American former actor.
Early career
Born in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, Van Nuys, California, Hall began his career as a teen actor and musician, appearing in a number of early 1960s films ...
Plot
A gang of teenage
greasers 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.
Cast
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Arch Hall Jr.
Arch Hall Jr. (born December 2, 1943) is an American former actor.
Early career
Born in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, Van Nuys, California, Hall began his career as a teen actor and musician, appearing in a number of early 1960s films ...
as Jack 'Cruiser' Bryan
* Robert Paget as Torch Lester (as Robert Padget)
* Burr Middleton as Snooper (as Mickey Hoyle)
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Rex Holman
Rexford George Holman (born 1935) is an American film and television actor.
Holman was born in Oklahoma. He began his screen career in 1959, appearing in the anthology television series '' The Millionaire''. In 1960 he made his film debut in ' ...
as Flip Johnson (as Roye Baker)
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Chuck Barnes as Ben Shore
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Tom Brown as Tom Hart
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Marianne Gaba
Marianne Gaba (November 13, 1939 – May 3, 2016) was an American model, actress, and beauty queen. She was Miss Illinois USA 1957 and ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1959 issue.
Personal life
Gaba was born in ...
as Liz
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William Shaw as Police Lt. Frank Fleming (as Bill Shaw)
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Bruno VeSota as Moose McGill
* Britt Wood as Cowboy Boggs
* Dee Gee Green as Gypsy
* Richard Cowl as Torch's Father (as Richard S. Cowl)
* Patrick Hawley as Officer Jenks (as Pat Hawley)
Soundtrack
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Arch Hall Jr.
Arch Hall Jr. (born December 2, 1943) is an American former actor.
Early career
Born in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, Van Nuys, California, Hall began his career as a teen actor and musician, appearing in a number of early 1960s films ...
- "Monkey in My Hatband" (Music and lyrics by Arch Hall Jr.)
* Arch Hall Jr. - "Konga Joe" (Music and lyrics by Arch Hall Jr.)
* Arch Hall Jr. - "Up the Creek"
See also
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List of American films of 1961
A list of American films released in 1961.
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Top-grossing films (U.S.)
A–B
C–I
J–R
S–Z
See also
* 1961 in the United States
External links
1961 filmsat the Internet Movie Database
*List of 1961 box office number-one fi ...
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List of hood films
This is a list of hood films – films focusing on the culture and life of African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and/or in some cases, Asian Americans living in segregated, low-income urban communities, as well as comparably deprived and crime-ri ...
References
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1961 films
1961 drama films
American black-and-white films
American drama films
Films directed by Leigh Jason
American auto racing films
Teensploitation
1960s English-language films
1960s American films
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