{"id":34512,"date":"2023-11-24T06:17:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T11:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34512"},"modified":"2023-11-24T06:17:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T11:17:17","slug":"chrome-and-hot-leather-1971-starring-william-smith-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34512","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Chrome and Hot Leather&#8221; (1971) starring William Smith \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z112423zview_chromehotleather.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Chrome and Hot Leather <\/strong><\/em>(1971)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Lee Frost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: <strong>Michael Haynes <\/strong>&amp; <strong>David Neibel<\/strong> and <strong>Don Tait\u00a0<\/strong>from a story by <strong>Michael Haynes <\/strong>&amp; <strong>David Neibel<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>William Smith, Tony Young, Michael Haynes, Peter Brown, Michael Stearns, Larry Bishop, Kathrine Baumann, Wes Bishop, Herb Jeffries, Bobby Pickett, Cheryl Ladd <\/strong>(aka <strong>Cherie Moor<\/strong>), <strong>Robert Ridgely, Erik Estrada, Dan Haggerty\u00a0<\/strong> and <strong>Marvin Gaye<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>A terrifying look at Motor Cycle Savagery &#8211; from the same studio that made &#8220;Born Losers&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a US Special Forces sergeant learns that his fianc\u00e9 was killed by the member of a motorcycle gang, he recruits three of his service buddies to track down the murderer.\u00a0 Four Viet Nam vets against an entire motorcycle gang?\u00a0 Yeah, that sounds about right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William Smith and Peter Brown co-starred in the television series <em>Laredo<\/em> before working on this film.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chrome and Hot Leather<\/em> features some interesting cast member trivia&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cheryl Ladd made her feature film debut billed as Cherie Moor.<\/li>\n<li>Marvin Gaye, best known as a multi-Grammy award-winning singer, made his feature film debut as well.<\/li>\n<li>Bobby Pickett, best known as the writer\/singer of the classic <em>The Monster Mash\u00a0<\/em>appears.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Herb Jeffries, a popular jazz singer and actor in films made for African-American audiences in the 1930s\/1940s, shows up.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erik Estrada can be seen in an uncredited role in only his second feature film.<\/li>\n<li>Dan Haggerty also has an uncredited role.\u00a0 He plays a bearded member of the biker gang.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Chrome and Hot Leather <\/strong><\/em>(1971) was made to cash in on the biker craze of the era.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a low-budget drive-in film.\u00a0 William Smith was built for biker films.\u00a0 If he was a bit younger, he&#8217;d have been an action movie star of the 80s.\u00a0 Still playing Conan&#8217;s dad is quite a notch on your resume.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z112423zview_chromehotleather2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrome and Hot Leather (1971) Director: Lee Frost Screenplay by: Michael Haynes &amp; 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