The Young Savages
The Young Savages is a 1961 American crime drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt Lancaster, It was Frankenheimer's second film, the first of five with Burt Lancaster.
Plot
Three teenagers from the Italian section of New York City's East Harlem, Danny diPace, Anthony Aposto and Arthur Reardon, are members of a street gang named the Thunderbirds. They have an ongoing turf war with a Puerto Rican gang, based in another section of East Harlem, called the Horsemen. As the movie begins, the three Thunderbirds unleash a knife attack on Roberto Escalante, a blind member of the Horsemen, stabbing him to death.
More details
| author | Edward Anhalt |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | John Frankenheimer |
| editor | Eda Warren |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | act arrest assistant district attorney attack claim death penalty district attorney drown east harlem gang member handicap kill meet mentally handicapped murder one by one past relationship puerto rican question serve social class stab street gang subway train switchblade switchblade knives turf war want |
| musicBy | David Amram |
| producer | Harold Hecht |
| publisher | United Artists |
| theme | race and ethnicity |