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- The Young Savages is the kind of pulse-pounding "social message" film that inevitably dates badly -- but it also has a power and conviction that make it hard to ignore. Even at its most melodramatic and blatantly manipulative (and it is both, in spades), it manages to press more buttons than most viewers will want to admit.
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Review. Being in a gang is the name of the game. John Frankenheimer directs this intense story of three teenage killers in New York City's Spanish Harlem and the idealistic DA (Burt Lancaster)given the job to prosecute them. Young gang members trying to protect their turf see no use in cooperating with the law.
- (2.9K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- John Frankenheimer
- 1961-05-24
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).
Review by Craig Butler. The Young Savages is the kind of pulse-pounding "social message" film that inevitably dates badly -- but it also has a power and conviction that make it hard to ignore. Even at its most melodramatic and blatantly manipulative (and it is both, in spades), it manages to press more buttons than most viewers will want to admit.
Due to its edgy subject matter, The Young Savages had limited appeal for broad audiences but it performed well in urban areas and most reviews were positive. Variety called it "a kind of non-musical east side variation on "West Side Story." It is a sociological cussword puzzle, a twisted riddle aimed at detection of the true motivation for ...
- John Frankenheimer, Carter Dehaven Jr.
- Burt Lancaster
A district attorney investigates three white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid.
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 ...