The Young Savages (1961)

Directors

John Frankenheimer

Cast

Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Shelley Winters, Larry Gates, Telly Savalas

The story

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.

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