The Angry Breed

1968
M/PG
1h 34m

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In Vietnam, aspiring actor Johnny Taylor is given a prize film script after saving the life of a Hollywood screenwriter. On his return, Johnny has trouble finding a studio that will let him ... Read allIn Vietnam, aspiring actor Johnny Taylor is given a prize film script after saving the life of a Hollywood screenwriter. On his return, Johnny has trouble finding a studio that will let him play the lead until he saves producer Vance Patton's daughter Diane from a cycle-gang atta... Read allIn Vietnam, aspiring actor Johnny Taylor is given a prize film script after saving the life of a Hollywood screenwriter. On his return, Johnny has trouble finding a studio that will let him play the lead until he saves producer Vance Patton's daughter Diane from a cycle-gang attack. The grateful father sends him to agent Mori Thompson, but Thompson wants the script fo... Read all

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Final film of Lori Martin.

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Johnny Taylor: Now, let's see. Today? Lunch with your agent. 1:00 right?
Vance Patton: 1:00, right.
Johnny Taylor: Johnny, isn't he the agent that specializes in the handling a certain kind of male? Johnny, you're not... you're not one of Mori's little... ah...
Johnny Taylor: No, Mori also handles a lot of girls. I'm a girl.
[He laughs]
Vance Patton: [laughs] You know I find it awfully hard not to like you. You're so disrespectful. Aren't you afraid you'll do something that makes me angry, and I'll refuse to put the money up for your show?
Johnny Taylor: Look, Vance. If you didn't like the script, then liked me, would you make the picture? I want the deal. So, if you want me to be respectful, let me have the contract. I'll act respectful.
Vance Patton: Not too respectful. You're way with me. That's an act, isn't it, huh? C'mon, that's how I would handle me. Admit it, that's a tactic.
Johnny Taylor: [laughs] You're asking me to be honest!

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Referenced in Long Strange Trip (2017)

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4/10

James MacArthur breaks bad in a silly biker movie.

James MacArthur (classic actress Helen Hayes's adoptive son) worked hard to shed his squeaky-clean Mouseketeer image from his '50s childhood acting days. In 1961 episode "Death for Sale," of "The Untouchables," he plays a clean-cut, preppy, baby-faced college student who is in reality the mastermind of an opioid-smuggling and -selling conspiracy. In the 1967 counterculture-exploitation flick "The Love-Ins," James turns up as an alternative newspaper journalist who becomes disillusioned by the hippie cult he has helped build around a Timothy Leary-like guru to the hippies (Richard Todd). In this trashy film, substandard even by the low bar of the biker-exploitation flick, James is the alpha male of a gang of neo-Nazi bikers, with a sideline in acting as an extra in Hollywood productions. This film has a lot of potential- duplicitous Hollywood film execs, innocent-blonde-in-peril, the menace of LSD, the heroic Vietnam War vet, and the aforementioned bikers, who look completely over-the-top-campy when dressed in costumes for a Halloween party. Veteran comedian Jan Murray turns up as a particularly despicable sleazebag. Yet despite the presence of quality acting talent- Murray, MacArthur, William Windom, Jan Serling, inter alia- it is boring and silly beyond belief. Fortunately, James would go the same year to his long-term TV role as "Dano" Williams, second in command to Steve McGarrett of the eponymous "Hawaii Five-O," and his restrained actor would serve as a welcome counterpoint to Jack Lord's hammy scowling and grimacing.