Review: Chrome and Hot Leather
Tony Young plays one of four green berets (with Peter Brown and Marvin Gaye playing two of the others) who take a break from training recruits for the Vietnam War to take on biker gang The Wizards, one of whom (stunt guy Michael Haynes) directly caused the death of Young’s fiancé (played by a young Cheryl Ladd) and her friend. William Smith plays the mean leader of The Wizards, who is pissed at the reckless Haynes for bringing unnecessary trouble to the gang. Look out for brief appearances by Robert Ridgely, Erik Estrada, and Dan Haggerty (as ‘Bearded Man’). Flawed 1971 AIP film from director Lee Frost ( “The Thing With Two Heads” , “The Black Gestapo” ) lacks a decent leading man and exploitation goodies but still gets the job done by biker movie standards. If this is your type of thing, there’s no reason you won’t enjoy this one. Lead actor Tony Young was apparently a TV western guy which makes more sense than being in something like this. He’s lost at sea here. Even stuntm...