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, is credited as story consultant.

Plot

A former motorcycle club leader, Mike (Tom Stern), returns home a

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from

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to resume his life, and reunite with his former motorcycle club. Finding they have left their former

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home base, Mike meets them in

, now riding under the leadership of a new president, Big George. Working with his former gang, Mike takes over the club from George, and moves into their biker farmhouse, owned by Ginger ( Arlene Martel). Running up against opposition from Sheriff Bingham ( Jack Starrett), who had an arrangement with George to "keep the peace," Mike sets out to use all his experience as a hero from the war to unite all the existing motorcycle clubs in California to create a brand new, "super outlaw" club. Skirmishes with the sheriff's department deputies break out, and the conflicts culminate when Speed ( Stephen Oliver), one of Mike's gang members, is stopped on fake possession charges, and murdered when he tries to escape. The trouble intensifies when an all-out cop-against-biker war breaks out.

Cast

*Tom Stern as Mike * Ted Markland as Smiley * Jack Starrett as Bingham * Arlene Martel as Ginger *Paul Bertoya as Nutty Norman * Jimmy Murphy as Tiny Tim *Sandra Bettin (credited as Saundra Gayle) *Bob Harris as Baney *Luana Talltree as Angry Annie *Susanne Walters as Saundra Gayle *Rod Wilmoth as Police Officer * Stephen Oliver as Speed *Pepper Martin as Dennis *Jay York as George *Ginger Snapp as Buff *Lori Hay as Go Go Dancer *Lee Stanley as Reynolds *Doug Hume as Crowley *Jim Reynolds as Durkens *Steven Rogers as Dude *Susan Holloway as Jennifer *Judith Garwood as Louise *Tony Rush as Hippie Child *Maureen Heard as Hippie Girl *Barry Feinstein as The Prophet *Dodie Warren as Hippie Girl's Mother *Wally Berns as Hippie Girl's Father *Cynthia McAdams as Pearl * Bud Ekins as The Scrambler *The Madcaps Of Bakersfield

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* 1968 films 1968 action films 1960s action drama films American action drama films 1960s English-language films Outlaw biker films Films scored by Stu Phillips Films directed by Bruce Kessler American International Pictures films 1960s American films English-language action drama films Films set in California Films shot in California Films about veterans {{action-film-stub

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