DIRECTED by JACK STARRETT SCREENPLAY by ALAN CAILLOU Cast WILLIAM SMITH as LINK ADAM ROARKE as DUKE BERNIE HAMILTON as CAPT. JACKSON HOUSTON SAVAGE as DIRTY DENNY GENE CORNELIUS as SPEED PAUL KOSLO as LIMPY JOHN GARWOOD as SGT. WINSTON ARLA KORITA as KIM SUE LILLIAN MARGAREJO as SURIYA PARALUMAN as MAMA-SAN PAUL MUCKLES as KOWALSKI RONNIE ROSS as LT. HAYWORTH ARMANDO LUCERO as SCREW VIC DIAZ as CHARLIE PAQUITO SALCIDO as TAC HOUN HERMAN ROBLES as INSPECTOR and JACK STARRETT in an uncredited appearance as CHET DAVIS

WILLIAM SMITH as LINK

Speed

Dirty Denny

Link

Duke

Limpy

Capt. Jackson Bernie Hamilton is the perenniel good captain.   He was  good Capt. Davis in Hammer and  good Capt. Dobie in the 70's series Starsky & Hutch

Link's Brother Major Matt

Sgt. Winston John Garwood was William Smith's costar in the WWII movie, Taste of Hell

This combination war epic and biker flick tells us the secret of the U.S. loss in Viet Nam -- not enough outlaw bikers.  C.I.A. operative Chet Davis is a prisoner being kept over the border in Cambodia where U.S. soldiers are not permitted to go.  Matt hires his brother Link and his "scooter trash" to retrieve Davis.  Link, Duke and Dirty Denny are Viet vets.  Duke has really returned to find his lost love.  Dirty Denny is owed money as a partner in a bar/whore house.  Our heroes deck out some "broads' bikes" (Yamahas) with armor, fill saddlebags with grenades and bravely take on the heavily armed compound where Davis is a prisoner.  In the end, the three surviving bikers are captured.  They escape with Davis, but are all killed, along with good Captain Jackson in the end while the less than honorable Davis survives.

The Losers Lose

Duke & his girl are killed by her Viet Cong brother  before the main fight starts.

Dirty Denny is killed in the raid on the compound.

Young Limpy is killed during the escape.

Capt. Jackson is killed by friendly fire trying to save the bikers.

Speed ends up in a creek shot dead running down Chet Davis after Link is shot.

Matt closes the dead Link's eyes after he is shot down.

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