Exhumed Films presents THE BORN LOSERS + BILLY JACK - 16mm double feature at PhilaMOCA

THE BORN LOSERS (1967) was the most successful independent film of its time, introducing the world to the iconic half-Indigenous Green Beret Vietnam vet Billy Jack! A group of Hell's Angels terrorize the young bikini clad girls in a Northern California town. Their parents are helpless, the townsfolk live in fear, the local police are powerless. The only hope is a justice-driven loner, Billy Jack, played by writer/director Tom Laughlin. An adults-only exploitation film that preceded the lone vigilante films of the 1970s like DIRTY HARRY and DEATH WISH, THE BORN LOSERS gave birth to a (very skilled) everyman hero who connected with the youth of the day and led to three sequels, the next being...

BILLY JACK (1971) defends a free school for runaway teenagers that is consistently under attack by aggressive hippie-hating locals. Dispensing justice via karate, Billy Jack is a hero of mythic proportions. "One of the most electrifying entertainments to inhabit any theater this year," said the New York Daily Mirror.

Doors 6:00 PM / Movies 6:30 PM / $15 admission
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