The Savage Seven (1968) [Selected for the First Quentin Tarantino Film Festival, 1997]
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- A motorcycle gang, "MC California", drifts into a ramshackle Native American Indian shanty town with the idea of fighting, drinking beer and carousing with some of the Native American females. It's not until commanding and charismatic Kisum (Adam Roarke), the leader of the pack, tries to get a bit too friendly with local Indian waitress Marcia Little Hawk (Joanna Frank), that the Indians, who at first avoided violence, start to get restless. Marcia's hot-headed, blue-eyed brother, Johnnie Little Hawk (Robert Walker, Jr.), is the leader of this tribe, and is upset about the budding romance.
There are a number of confrontations between Johnnie and his Indian friends living in poverty, with Kisum's crew of drunk and rowdy bikers that the rich and greedy, controlling local owner of the bar and convenience store, Fillmore (Mel Berger), attempts to use to his advantage.
Fillmore has been trying for some time to drive the pesky Indians off their land and turn it into a resort and shopping mall that would make him millions. Now with Kisum and his gang running amok and terrifying the Indians in town, Fillmore has a secret plan to pay Kisum to burn the Indians out of their homes, and at the same time, by calling the state police troopers, then have Kisum and his gang arrested for arson and murder. That's the proverbial knocking off two birds with one stone on Fillmore's part!
The bikers and Indians, seeing a common cause, become allied against Fillmore. He goes into overdrive, and has a local Indian woman raped and murdered by his #1 henchman karate black belt Taggert (Charles Bail) and makes it look like one of the bikers did it!
But, things still aren't going the way he wanted. The bikers and Indians are not going for each other throats. So, Fillmore has Taggert & Co. murder Kisum's good friend Bull (Richard Anders) to start a war between the bikers & Indians. After Bull is murdered, he is crucified by Fillmore's men, making it look like the Indians did it in revenge for the raped and murdered Indian woman.
With both the bikers and Indians now at war with each other, Fillmore and his crew just sit back, acting like "innocent bystanders" in all the carnage, and wait for the inevitable results: The two sides wiping each other out with Fillmore and his boys, being non-combatants, picking up all the pieces, and the valuable Indian land! Since both the Bikers and Indians, in killing off each other, won't have any use for it anyway!
That's until a battered and beaten Taggert, who had the truth beat out of him by Kisum, confessed that his boss, Fillmore, is working both ends against the middle. With alliances shifting back and forth, it's now up to Kisum to get the truth out to both his bikers and Johnnie's Indians to unite against their real enemy, Fillmore, before they both end up slaughtering each other!
A 1968 action, crime, drama, thriller, outlaw biker film directed by Richard Rush ("The Stuntman"), produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, Dick Clark, and James H. Nicholson, screenplay by Michael Fisher from a story by Rosalind Ross, and richly photographed by László Kovács. Starring Robert Walker Jr., Joanna Frank, John Garwood, Larry Bishop, Max Julien and Duane Eddy. Penny Marshall and Billy Green Bush appears in one of their earliest screen roles. It's worth seeing for Walker and Rourke's performances, they elevate this film to a much higher level than it would be, with lesser actors.
Rush had directed the previous year's "Hells Angels on Wheels", and agreed to direct this biker flick in exchange for the opportunity to make his psychedelic film "Psych-Out" (1968). Here, he doesn't seem inhibited by the common-ness of the material. Rush builds the characters and has Kovács move the camera (it glides and whirls like a gymnast) in typically startling fashion.
This biker film adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's classic "Seven Samurai" (1954) was one of the many biker films coming out of the AIP studios during the 1960's and 70's, but it's also one of the most entertaining. With style to burn, it delivers on all the action and stunts you'd expect from this genre while also injecting some obvious but effective social commentary on the scrambled values of the era. The powers-that-be pit the bikers and Indians against each other to dissolve their strength and perpetuate their fringe status.
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Richard F. Shepard wrote: "The movie is one continuous uproar of unmuffled motors and head-cracking and emphasized cruelty from one and to another. It is colorful and technically competent but completely cheap in its primitive, uninquiring, kick'-em-in-the-groin sensationalism, too serious to be lusty and too one-note to be interesting."
Selected by Quentin Tarantino for the First Quentin Tarantino Film Festival, which was held in Austin, Texas in 1997. If you like classic drive-in movies, then this will be a whole lot of fun. Whip out some popcorn, and set back to be entertained.
My Dad was the Second Unit Cameraman on this. He also could have worked on Easy Rider but missed out because of prior commitments
Adam Roarke, on the advice of his agent, turned down the greatest bike flick of all - Easy Rider......and he never got over it
What part ? 🐊
@@Gator1699 not sure....I'm thinking the Nicholson part.....I know Rip Torn and Bruce Dern almost played it
@@anthonydileonardo8156 Thank you.
Penny Marshall from Laverne & Shirley fame is also in this movie
Must 've been because they offered him to play Billy. I don't see a Captain America in him. And as a biker actor definitely not as George Hanson.
BRAVO! YOU ARE THE VERY FIRST AND ONLY ONE WHO WRITES A COMPLETE SYNOPSIS+ TO THE PROSPECTIVE VIEWERS. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Yes it was great.
I don't have time to watch it - and now I don't have to
Saw this at the Drive-In outside Jefferson City summer of '70.
I really thought those large empty cardboard boxes would hold the motorcycle riders back, ... but they drove right through them like they were large empty cardboard boxes
When I'm riding I was make a point of going through things rather than around them. It's just my way.
@@a34rwlI heard of a motorcyclist who saw a large cardboard box on the road, so he thought I’ll just ride through it. Problem was it contained a fridge that had fallen of a truck🤕!
I was driving my work truck on the freeway here in Houston and I drove over a large cardboard box that was lying flat on the roadway. My truck caused a large amount of air to get under the flattened box which caused the box to fly up into the air, right in front of an HPD motorcycle cop who was practically tailgating me. I freaked out and looked in my rearview mirror thinking for sure the cop was going down and I would be charged with some sort of felony assault on a cop, but the cop just put up his right forearm and blocked the box like a football player and the box just sailed right over his head. I looked back at him with a wide-eyed, worried W.T.F. look on my face but he just waved it off like nothing had happened, goosed his bike and went around me like I was just in his way.
Such is life in the big city.
Those were not just “ ordinary boxes” dude! They were blockade boxes ! Big difference--
When the 1st song started, i was waiting to hear stevie nicks start singing "just like a one wing dove"
Where do you think she stole it from 😅
Ha. Me too.
3:35 ❤❤❤ I WAS THINKING MORE LIKE EYE OF THE TIGER BUT I'M NOT MUCH OF A STEVIE NICKS OR FLEETWOOD MAC FAN 4:00
Hilarious 😂
You would be waiting forever man because its “Just like a White winged dove.” 😂
I think this movie might have been influential in the making of Billy Jack.
Adam Roarke, who is one of my favorite actors, was also in "Hells Angels on Wheels," and Larry Bishop (Joey Bishop's son) was in several biker flicks. Most notably, "Hell Ride" with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madson.
Thanks for sharing. Welcome.
Adam Roark as Deke in Dirty Mary ,Crazy Larry with Susan George and Peter Fonda is choice
I love ALL the old chopper flicks, have alot of DVD copies, but Hellride SUCKED I'm sorry.
They are all a bunch of crooks, weak when they are on their own.
There was enough action for sure these were the days when biker movies were very popular, raw boned to the core., 🏍
When I caught Roarke in the STAR TREK pilot, I couldn't believe how short he really was
Short? Compared to whom? He was my height, and I'm 6'. He was my acting teacher, so I'm not just blowing smoke.
@@DrDespicable I've been a fan of Roarke { Randy Gerler from Brooklyn NY } for years.....watch the Star Trek episodes he was in....you'll see what I mean
@@DrDespicable At least you got to meet the guy before he passed....that's one up on me
@@DrDespicable
Compared to the "Duke" I suppose... Ciao.
Dude was a dwarf.
Dick Clark: Let's make Italian Western but with biker gang".
I could picture that.
Followed by The Dark and put Casey Kasem in it.
First Tarantino film festival selection isn’t a selling point. (Unless you’re tracking down all the old films he’s ripped off… err “homaged”)
Exactly. Thank you. No one around me understands why I am not a Tarantino fan.
Homaged ? 😂He stole too much from French cinema ! Way too much - I was a fan until Jackie Brown - the rest is plundering 😂
I personally love how his films were influenced. I mean make something better yourself I guess
That's not the right music for the bikers ride in, the original score was Iron Butterfly's "Unconscious Power." I've got the vinyl soundtrack for the movie.
Wow that’s cool, I’ve collected movie soundtracks for years. This one’s probably real hard to find now
🎶 just like the white wing dove 🎶 🎵
I was thinking I’ve heard this song before 😅. Looks like Fleetwood Mac ripped it off.
eye of the tigerrr
It's some of the same crew from HELLS ANGELS ON WHEELS. SONNY BARGER HAD A PART IN IT ASWELL. THAT WAS THE LAST TIME THAT THE HA'S ALLOWED NON MEMBERS TO WEAR THE COLORS. SOME MEMBERS WERE NOT HAPPY WITH THAT
Joanna Frank is gorgeous. Reminds me of Mariska Veres.
Is that the darked haired chick?
The music that starts at 3:04 sounds like the intro to Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks, altho it predates that release by over a decade.
Yeah, real tough bikers. Taking over a bunch of tin shacks where poor Indian women and children live... What next? An old folks home?
my truck says not so tough when bike goes into air
Taught them REAL good 😂
Penny Marshall in this movie😮 plus almost the same cast of bikes from hells angels on wheels
"Maria's theme" was also part of the soundtrack of "Hell Ride" directed and starring Larry Bishop.
Roger that. Thanks for watching.
American outlaws always have perfect pearly whites
I saw this way back....thought it was pretty good compared to the biker movies at the time....
That cannot be the actual opening score. I was hoping to hear the maestro Davie Allan
A loong trip in a short town
Thanks for the visit!
Soundtrack song by Cream…as in CREAM???
One of my favorite Cream songs…. I even had the soundtrack album….alas, lost it in a prairie fire. Along with all my vinyl… GoFundMe? Hahaha
Oh… the Cream song is “Anyone for Tennis?”
@@rickwest-zv3yoThat's sad.
Greetings from Germany.
I t thought Fleetwood Mac was coming on 😅😅😅
I actually enjoyed this movie. Decent plot. Robert Walker, Jr and Adam Roarke were great.
Only Is dick Clark could Produce a silly movie like this😂
Thanks for the visit!
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@@retiredsquad7716 Welcome.
This is TURNING OUT TO BE A BUMMER!!😂
Anyone else recognize 'Ensign Pulver' and Laverne Defozzio? Aka Penny Marshall
Penny Marshall. Peter (Hollywood squares ) Marshalls brother and Rob (Mike meat had Stivik) Reiner’s wife.
Never a dull moment
If you've ever seen a bikie gang doing their thing, then you know there's nothing romantic about them.
Standing ovation 👏
I stuck around for Robert Walker Jr. He's always good, at least as good as his father, if not better. RW Sr died young, tragically, so he never got to fully explore the depth of his talent.
Would someone please tell me who Duane Eddy played?? His character’s name is Eddy-but who’s Eddy??
I think it was the bikecur with the civil war cap
Strange but the opening music sounds later than 1968.
The only Indian who doesn't look Indian, is Robert Walker.
It ain't often you find a turkey this bad.
You haven't seen pschomania, biker movies are notoriously camp and cheesy but pschomania takes it to another paranormal level
Another great one!
Glad you think so! I'm beginning to work on posting public domain movies.
I spy Max Julien
Max was too cool as Goldie in THE MACK!
It’s bad,but it’s not “I can’t watch this sh.. bad.” The worst thing about this movie is the martial arts. It’s better than, THE BORN LOSERS.
R.I.P. Ray White😢
9:33 Penny Marshall ??
Yes
@@sharksport01 Thank you.
Fine family entertainment. Disney's just not what it used to be.
Pityfulll
I'll translate it. ... Pitiful.
What do you mean by that annotation on the Directors Credit?
"the stuntman, in order to make the Psych..."
www.imdb.com/title/tt0063469/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_8
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And that's how palm springs was made.
drive in specials
What happened to Robert Walker 😮He had potential but thought he could be a hippy😮
The ginchiest flick of them all.
That's the mack
That scene where Max Julien (with a bad wig) gives that biker a necklace was a bit…uh… “fancy”.
I thought they were gonna start making out
Nada como 'The Born Losers' 😅😅😅😅😅😅
PENNY
MARSHALL
Penny Marshall?!
Robert walker ended up in "Easyrider"
the following yr but no speaking role
go figure! just some tai-chi moves
at a commune..wasted talent !
Movie Stinks !
Chicago 2023
Why picturing motorcyclists like a bunch of psycopaths ?
Then again It looks like putting on the screen the Dreams of mr. Bored, Who Imagine a life out of the ordinary. The outlaw Life.... Ah, what a good Dream......
Wu Tang represent !
Weak, weak weak.
❤😮😅
Terrible movie - awful. This serves to show how movies only really got good in the 1980s.
"Z" from 1969? "Salo" from 1975? There's a whole cinematic world outside of Hollyweird.
😁
Baloney sticks
I thught bikers were GAY. I'm right too.
😮
Very bad.
So I’ve been reading through the comments… And no one is talking about the obvious racism going on…???…!!… Come on.
Rotfl!!!😂
Robert Walker Jr, who plays the role of Hawk here, also appeared in Easy Rider. He portrays the hippie cult leader in the latter. He later committed suicide.