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The Young Savages: Directed by John Frankenheimer. With Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan. A district attorney investigates three white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- John Frankenheimer
- 1961-05-24
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 product of a slum environment), decides to remain impartial ...
- John Frankenheimer, Carter Dehaven Jr.
- Burt Lancaster
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Jun 22, 2023 · An illustration of an open book. Books. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. ... The Young Savages (1961)
The one person who openly disagrees with Hank on prosecuting on first degree murder is his privileged wife, Karin Bell, who feels such charges especially against a fifteen year old are inhumane. Knowing the neighborhood and its people well, Hank investigates on his own, which places his and his family's life in danger as both sides try to use ...
Rated: 2/5 • Jun 14, 2005. 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 ...
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- Burt Lancaster
- John Frankenheimer
- Drama, Mystery & Thriller
The Young Savages is what used to be called a "thinking man's picture" about a potentially lurid subject: urban juvenile delinquency. A blind Puerto Rican boy is knifed to death in Spanish Harlem, and three teenage gang members are accused of the crime.
The movie has the racial backgrounds of victim and killer reversed which made the film a bit disingenuous to the movie going public back then in 1961, just two years after that terrible event. The killer Salvador Agron was Hispanic and his two teenage victims, Anthony Krezsinski and Robert Young, were white.
