moonspinner55 Five teenage boys--four from bad homes and the fifth a rich kid with an absentee mother--are wanted by a police lieutenant on car thief detail for stripping non-working autos left by the side of the road. The kids are fast and efficient at their work, using a poultry truck as a cover for slipping passed the cops, making their capture a headache for the authorities. Amateur juvie outing from low-rent producer Arch Hall and featuring the film debut of his son, Arch Hall, Jr. Not poorly-made exactly, though with spiritless performances and enervated pacing. The camp dialogue and pop songs almost make it tolerable. *1/2 from ****

wbswetnam Here is one of Arch Hall Jr's movies which his dad (Arch Hall Sr) produced and cast him in. Strap yourselves in for some jive-talking, Monkey-In-A-Hatband singing, car chopping fun! Arch Hall Jr plays Cruiser, the hot-rodding leader of a group of teenagers called the "Choppers". The boys cruise around the county in a chicken truck (!!!??) looking for brand-new cars to strip. For some reason this particular stretch of highway is where many drivers of beautiful new cars always seem to run out of gas. Hmmm... Anyway when the boys in the chicken truck find a car, they strip it for parts in a matter of minutes, while Cruiser stands guard at a distance in his hotrod looking for the "fuzz". The boys use enormous walkie-talkies to keep Cruiser apprised of their progress. Afterward they sell the parts to a crooked junkyard dealer. The cops are pretty much clueless about how to stop them until they hit upon the idea of setting up a decoy vehicle (why hadn't they thought of that a long time earlier?).No Arch Hall Jr. flick would be complete without a guitar tune by Arch Hall Jr himself and this one is no different. This one features Arch Hall Jr singing "Monkey In A Hatband" and don't ask me what the song is about because I couldn't get the MIAH part.Finally the moral of this movie is about how bad parenting is to blame for kids going wild and becoming juvenile delinquents.

shepardjessica-1 Not in the league of THE SADIST or WILD GUITAR, this early Arch Hall, Jr. flick is fun, b/w, and low. Love Moose, junkyard mogul (great caricature of him on the sign as well). Whatever these guys were thinking when they made this type of exploitation film is okay with me. The slang dialogue is flowing and plenty of cheeseburgers to go around.A 4 out of 10. Best performance = the guy who plays Moose. This is on DVD with WILD GUITAR so check it out, daddy-o! Lame songs which are perfect, chicks just good-looking enough to seem like they'd be around these guys, and nice locale where they filmed it. Arch Hall, Sr. must have been a strange dude, bankrolling his kid's career this way, but what the hey!

bux And yet another of those oh sooo bad affairs from Hall and son. In this one, a young hot-rod enthusiast becomes involved with car thieves working at a 'chop' shop-hence the title. There IS a neat game you and friends can play with this one: count how many continuity errors you can spot. You'll be high in double digits, IF you make it to the end of this one.(Hint:watch for a police cruiser that changes from a Ford to a Plymouth and back again!)