Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gang film called The Warriors attracts off-screen rumbles
...full-time guards were on duty last week at the Town Downtown and will stay there until The Warriors finishes its run. Not since Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange opened in 1971 has a movie generated such anxiety about the seeming power of a film to engender gang violence in those...
During an intermission a white girl drew comment from blacks belonging to a youth gang called the Blue Coats. Their white counterparts, the Family, came to her rescue. In the shooting that followed, one of the Family, Marvin Kenneth Eller, 19, was killed by a .22-cal. bullet...
...third killing, in Boston on Feb. 15, was not a racial clash. Returning .Tom the movie, several members of a white DorChester gang apparently got into an argument with Marty Yakubowicz, 16. Someone yelled, "I want you!"-a line from the script-and Yakubowicz was attacked with a knife. He died six hours later...
...Kubrick elevates this Anthony Burgess nightmare into a film of frightening precision, thought-provoking and pointed in its satire of "enlightened" modern ideas of criminal reform. Some find the violence sensationalized, but Kubrick gives it all purpose. The perfectly realized vision of London as the decadent plaything of roving gangs turns macabre as Kubrick overlays Rossini, Beethoven, and Purcell music. Don't expect to leave feeling reassured or satisfied; Kubrick doesn't answer the questions he raises about society's right to curb individual freedoms when the individuals smash, batter and rape. Malcolm MacDowells's sympathetic portrayal of Alex...