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A quintet of teenagers neglected by their parents (for various reasons), the Choppers (Arch Hall jr, Robert Paget,
Mickey Hoyle, Roye Baker, Chuck Barnes), have made it their job to strip
cars they find in the desert which are temporarily left by their owners
for all they've got, then sell the spareparts to Moose (Bruno VeSota), a
crooked garage owner. To do so, they disguise their mobile unit as a
poultry truck, while their leader, Cruiser (Arch Hall jr) is on the
lookout driving a hot rod and contacts them via two-way radio ... this way
they manage to always be long gone before anyone can catch up with them.
Heck they are so good, at one point they even strip the car of Tom Hart
(Tom Brown), a cop who is after them.
Eventually though, Hart and fellow cop Fleming (William Shaw) come up
with two clues, one leading to the poultry truck, one to the hot rod, they
just fail to see where the clues are leading ... until of all people Liz
(Marianne Gaba), Tom's secretary who seemed rather useless during most of
the film, comes up with the decisive clue, an ID on Cruiser, the owner of
the hot rod.
In the end though, our cops abandon a car of their own in the desert as
a bait for the Choppers - which eventually ends in a carchase and a
shootout in Moose's garage before the Choppers, at least those still
alive, give themselves up ...
Arch Hall sr, screenwriter and father of the star of this film, plays a
reporter in this one, while his son is given the opportunity to sing a
song.
Arch Hall jr's debut film is probably also his most ordinary one: It's
neither as good nor as bad as later films nor as over-the-top. In all, The
Choppers is a typical hot rod film made for the drive-in circuit,
neither cheaper nor worse than most other contemporary genre entries, with
Hall turning in a routine performance, not as good nor as bad nor as
over-the-top as in his later films. That's not to say it's a bad or dull
film, essentially it's a solid hour-plus of entertainment, nothing great,
that's for sure, but not too shoddy either.
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