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The Savage Seven
1968 film by Richard Rush From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Savage Seven is a 1968 outlaw biker exploitation film directed by Richard Rush, who had directed the previous year's Hells Angels on Wheels. Rush agreed to direct The Savage Seven in exchange for the opportunity to make the psychedelic film Psych-Out.[2]
Penny Marshall appears in one of her earliest screen roles.[3]
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Plot
Kisum, the leader of a motorcycle gang, is in love with waitress Marcia Little Hawk. Her brother Johnnie Little Hawk, the leader of a group of Indians, is upset about the romance. The bikers and Indians join forces but a scheme by crooked businessmen causes them to become adversaries.
Cast
- Robert Walker Jr. as Johnnie
- Joanna Frank as Marcia
- John Garwood as Stud
- Larry Bishop as Joint
- Adam Roarke as Kisum
- Max Julien as Grey Wolf
- Richard Anders as Bull
- Duane Eddy as Eddie
- Billy "Green" Bush as Seely
- Gary Kent as Lansford
- Penny Marshall as Tina
Reception
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."[4]
Several critics consider the film to be a biker film adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic Seven Samurai.[5][6]
Soundtrack
The film's soundtrack album was released 1968 on Atco Records as 33-245 (mono) and SD-33-245 (stereo).[7]
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