Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wall Street Gang...
...Walker as his girl friend who turns to the needle, and most especially by a group of black nonprofessionals, a lot of them recruited from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Once in a while, the movie quiets its tone of social soap opera and pulls together a strong sequence: a gang fight, staged with the right kind of rushed clumsiness and dulled, all-directions violence, and a lacerating funeral sequence with a lightning-rod eulogy by a preacher (Ram John Holder...
This is a wistful little period piece about a gang bang. The film makers -and especially the screenwriter, who based his script on real people from his high school days-wax nostalgic for delicate love and ruined innocence. These commodities were evidently to be found right after World War II down in rural Georgia, where some kids on the way to being good ole boys conduct puberty rites by jumping on the acquiescent body of Billie (Joan Goodfellow). Acquiescent, but not responsive. As the fellows wriggle and writhe, Billie lies there, face turned away, absently tossing pebbles into the swamp...
...Lucas(3) 4-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (5) 5-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read (4) 6-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller (8) 7-The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, Marchetti & Marks (6) 8-The Wall Street Gang, Ney (7) 9-Chief!, Seedman & Hellman 10-An American Life, Magruder
...Wall Street Gang...