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The Young Savages (1961) Released six months before "West Side Story," this elegant story of New York gang violence in the ghettos of uptown Manhattan is as powerful, and as beautiful. And the title makes clear that the movie is pointing to a new social problem, the immigrant gangs (Italian and Puerto Rican in this case).
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 ...
Jan 3, 2024 · The 2014 film “Selma” is based on the famous Alabama marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. These protest marches were directed by civil rights leader James Bevel and led by Martin Luther ...
Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/17/23 Full Review Ken R The Young Savages – Drama On The Streets In 1961, Young director John Frankenheimer (The Train) was making a big impression ...
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The Young Savages is a 1961 crime drama film directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, and written by Edward Anhalt from a novel by Evan Hunter. The supporting cast includes Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters, and Edward Andrews, and The Young Savages was the first film featuring Telly Savalas, who plays a police detective ...
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. John Frankenheimer. Evan Hunter. J.P. Miller. Edward Anhalt. A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
The Young Savages is a kind of non-musical east side variation on West Side Story. It is a socio- logical cussword puzzle, a twisted riddle aimed at detection of the true motivation for juvenile ...
