The Young Savages
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| Directed by | John Frankenheimer |
| Produced by | Harold Hecht |
| Screenplay by | Edward Anhalt |
| Based on | A Matter of Conviction by Evan Hunter |
| Starring | Burt Lancaster Dina Merrill Shelley Winters Telly Savalas |
| Music by | David Amram |
| Cinematography | Lionel Lindon |
| Editing by | Eda Warren |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | May 24, 1961 |
| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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, foreshadowing his later role as Kojak.
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[edit] Synopsis
A district lawyer investigates the racially charged case of two Italian teenagers (as well as an Irish teen) accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. The film explores several different gang issues, such as race, poverty, and especially that of peer pressure.
[edit] Cast
Burt Lancaster ... Hank Bell
Dina Merrill ... Karin Bell
Edward Andrews ... R. Daniel Cole
Vivian Nathan ... Mrs. Escalante
Shelley Winters ... Mary diPace
Larry Gates ... Randolph
Telly Savalas ... Detective Gunderson
Pilar Seurat ... Louisa Escalante
Jody Fair ... Angela Rugiello
Roberta Shore ... Jenny Bell
Milton Selzer ... Dr. Walsh
Robert Burton ... Judge
David J. Stewart ... Barton
Stanley Kristien ... Danny diPace
John Davis Chandler ... Arthur Reardon
Neil Nephew ... Anthony 'Batman' Aposto
[edit] Plot
Danny Di Pace, Arthur Reardon and Anthony "Batman" Aposto are members of a street gang named the Thunderbirds in New York City in East Harlem. They have a ongoing turf war with a Puerto Rican gang call the Horsemen. The three Thunderbirds unleash a knife attack on Roberto Escalante, a blind member of the Horsemen and stab him to death. They are caught and arrested, and during questioning by the police and an assistant district attorney, Hank Bell (Lancaster) discovers one of the boys is the son of an ex-girlfriend (Shelly Winters).
Back at the office of the district attorney Dan Cole (Edward Andrews), Bell admits he knows the mother of one of the suspects in the killing but despite objections, he is not taken off the case and admits that he in fact grew up in the same neighborhood. At the funeral for Roberto Escalante, he is confronted by his ex-lover and she tells him her son promised he would never join a gang. Bell then sets out to find out the true facts about the killing and admits that his father changed his name from Bellini to Bell because he was ashamed of his background and where he grew up.
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