The Born Losers
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| Born Losers | |
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Film poster by Reynold Brown |
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| Directed by | T. C. Frank (Laughlin) |
| Produced by | Delores Taylor Don Henderson Tom Laughlin |
| Written by | Elizabeth James |
| Starring | Tom Laughlin Elizabeth James Jeremy Slate |
| Music by | Mike Curb |
| Cinematography | Gregory Sandor |
| Editing by | John Winfield |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 18, 1968 |
| Running time | 113 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $400,000 |
| Box office | $36,000,000 |
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 five teenage girls in Monterey, California.
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Famous quotes containing the words born and/or losers:
“It is the blight man was born for,”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“Nihilism as a symptom that the losers have no more consolation: that they destroy in order to be destroyed, that without morality they no longer have any reason to “resign themselves”Mthat they put themselves on the level of the opposite principle and for their part also want power in that they compel the mighty to be their hangmen. This is the European form of Buddhism, renunciation, once all existence has lost its “meaning.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)