Tom

By going for the DVD of Hi-Riders (1978) this was but on as an extra. There's not that much action going on and it contains a lot of blah blah but still it's worth watching only to see how America was back then just after the Vietnam war. This flick is all about racism that is written here as Jim (Greydon Clark) loses his best friend, a black American, in the war. He want to go to the black ghetto's to tell the father that his son died but he isn't welcome in the ghetto.

From here on we do see how racism worked and how corrupt the cops were always going for the white people and beating up the black ones. The acting isn't all that good and it really looks outdated but it's worth watching as I said before due Aldo Ray being in it as the corrupt sergeant.

It was completely shot in the Watts era in Los Angeles. Also that is worth seeing. Guess everyone knows about the Watts riots in 1965. Another thing I was rather surprised of was the amount of gratuitous nudity and that coming from white and black people. And a lot is full frontal, of course it's early seventies so that means full bushes! For those common with sexploitations could recognise Bambi Allen as Bobbi very active in the sixties and seventies. She to be seen in a lot of biker movies and maybe you remember her with her trademark, voluptuous silicone juggs and pigtails. Sadly she dies shortly after this flick aged 34 due cancer caused by the silicons.

It also shows what free love meant to be. Jim for example had a lot of lovers. And the skinny dipping pool party is so seventies. Only for blaxploitation lovers with a message. But as a freebie it was great to see this.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 0/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

One of the worst collections of tired cliches I've seen assembled into a feature film. Every scene is entirely predictable, and squeezed hard to wring some sort of meaning or intensity out of it. Which is kind of a lost cause, since most of the flat, one dimensional "acting" is about what you'd expect from a local car dealer TV commercial.

With that in mind, it's not without its (unintentional) charms. There are enough "so bad it's good" moments to make this stinking old pile of leftover glop worth watching strictly for laughs. And the shockingly bad theme song is so ridiculously inappropriate and racist that it's hard to believe that anyone ever thought that it was a good idea.

One star as a serious movie, but six stars as an unintentional comedy. I'll split the difference and give it four stars out of ten.

The movie shows it age, but the whole movie does show the tension. You look at today and you see that it is all still there, but covered up better. White man who has a black buddy in 'Nam who gets killed. He goes to the ghetto to inform the father and runs into the brother's gang. Like I stated before, the movie shows its age, but i do think it helps the younger generation realize the way it was....and still is.

Entertaining movie about a Vietnam veteran who gets into trouble with the African American brother of a friend of his who was killed in Vietnam. When racist cops get involved, the situation escalates...

Clark will not go down in history as a great director or actor, but at least he had the guts to address some racial issues in a low budget blaxploitation movie. He doesn't take the easy way out.

Not only the white people are racists this time. In The Bad Bunch it's a human trademark.

I've read a some negative reviews about this one. Bad acting, directing and disturbing stereotypes. Come on, it's still a B-movie. Clark is no Scorcese. But he did make a damn entertaining movie, which is more than I can say for the majority of blaxploitation movies from that era...

One of your more unusual black action films in that the protagonist is a white man (the title was originally "n*gger lover", but no theaters would book it) -- the director, Greydon Clark! Never has the director of the film taken so much abuse! He plays a guy who returns home from Vietnam and tries to befriend the family of his friend from the war (who was black), only to meet scorn and the vengeance of the gang headed by his dead friend's brother. Aldo Ray appears as a racist cop. Clark does all right in the role, but it's hard to believe that he could be juggling 2 women as fine as these actresses. There is good exploitation value in the pool party scene, which also humorously juxtaposes the black gang and a bunch of stoned hippies.