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Plot. Two Italian-American greasers, Danny diPace and Anthony "Batman" Aposto (Neil Nephew), and the Irish-American Arthur Reardon are members of a street gang named the Thunderbirds in New York City in East Harlem. They have an ongoing turf war with a Puerto Rican gang called the Horsemen.
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican boy. The film is loosely based on the 1959 Salvador Agron \"Capeman killings\" in New York City and features Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill and Shelley Winters.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- John Frankenheimer
- 1961-05-24
A crime drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill and Shelley Winters. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers and other crew members who worked on the movie.
After a Puerto Rican teen is murdered by three white adolescents, the case comes to Assistant District Attorney Hank Bell (Burt Lancaster). Realizing that he used to date the mother (Shelley...
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- Burt Lancaster
- John Frankenheimer
- Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Synopsis. In New York's Spanish Harlem, a 15-year-old Puerto Rican boy is stabbed to death by three hoodlums from an Italian street gang. When the three teenagers are apprehended, Dan Cole, the politically ambitious district attorney, announces that he will demand the death penalty, but his prosecutor, Assistant D. A. Hank Bell (himself the ...
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Feb 28, 2020 · Topics. John Frankenheimer, Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas, 1960s, Film Noir Full Movies, Film Noir, Drama, Crime, Classics, Mystery, Thrillers, Black & White, FN01R. The Young Savages is a 1961 American crime drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt Lancaster.