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Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.
Eric Boles
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- (as Eric Bolles)
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- TriviaIn the film, Gary Busey's truck is a 1986 Dodge Ram 4x4 with a roll bar and heavy duty front and rear bumpers. It has a steel rear window and steel roll up door windows, with viewing slits in them. The front glass is bullet proof. The tail bed has four small rear-facing mortars, 2 side mortars (one each side) and four machine guns. The front grill area flips down and has 2 more machine guns. All of these weapons are controlled by a joy stick and control panel inside the truck cab.
- GoofsIn the scene with the dead paramedics, the bottom paramedic blinks right before the camera passes by him.
He wasn't pronounced as dead. Clearly he was alive a little bit at that point.
- Quotes
J.B. Deveraux: I'm gonna put this truck right up his ass.
- Alternate versionsGerman version was cut by 22 seconds to remove a few shots of gore, this is done in order to get a "not under 18" rating from the FSK, but nonetheless it still got BPjM indexed anyway. Subsequent German TV airings were similarly shortened for violence reasons. Although despite being removed from the index list back in 2016, only just now in February of 2024 was the uncut version granted a "not under 16" rating.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Zeg 'ns Aaa: Opgeruimd staat netjes (1987)
- SoundtracksEye of the Tiger
Written by Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan
Performed by Survivor
Courtesy of Scotti Brothers Records and Tapes
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* * * Out Of Five
Gary Busey stars as Buck Matthews a reformed ex-con and ex-Vietnam vet who wages war on bikers responsible for the murder of his wife, Busey resorts to the usual manner in dispatching these bikers, often playing grisly practical jokes that involve using wire at neck level, to decapitate his foes. The fight really reaches the boiling point when the bikers snatch Matthews' daughter (Judith Barsi) and therefore even Buck Matthews turns to his fellow Vietnam vet buddy J.B Deveraux (Yaphet Kotto) and together they blitz the biker's stronghold in this more fun than you would expect one man army thriller. If you really need an accurate description, just picture Death Wish 3 with Gary Busey instead of Charles Bronson. However what makes this biker entry so much fun is watching the traps Busey sets up for the bikers, which always have grisly (and hilarious) results.
3/5 Matt Bronson
3/5 Matt Bronson
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- Also known as
- Der Tiger
- Filming locations
- Piru, Ventura County, California, USA(Exterior Shots)
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- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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