Word: nemecsek
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...20th century disfigures a city, groups of teen-age boys skirmish over its last remaining vacant lot. A territorial imperative drives them into paramilitary gangs, complete with bugles, spears and articles of war. As is common with armies and youths, the weakest individual is the most brutalized. He is Nemecsek (Anthony Kemp), the smallest and most sensitive of the Paul Street boys, who would sacrifice anything-including his life-to gain the recognition of his classmates. His chance soon comes. Already snuffling with a severe cold, Nemecsek ventures onto the turf of the dreaded Red Shirts, gets caught and thrown...
...picture unlike any other that has come from Hollywood. It concerns the struggle between two groups of Budapest schoolboys-the Paul Street Boys and their larger rivals, the Red Shirts -for possession of a corner lot. Smallest, feeblest, most loyal member of the Paul Street army is Private Nemecsek (George Breakston). The only non-commissioned officer in the organization, he is eager for promotion and tries to earn it one evening on a spying expedition to the Red Shirts' headquarters in the botanical gardens. When he and his companions are observed, Nemecsek has to hide in the conservatory pool...
...time the Red Shirts and the Paul Street Boys arrange to have a pitched battle for the vacant lot, Nemecsek has his promotion and an officer's cap but they do him small good. He is in bed with pneumonia, too ill to remember anything except that he will not be on hand to help. It turns out that Nemecsek does not miss the battle. He clambers out of bed, staggers desperately into the thick of the scuffle, jumps at the throat of the leader of the Red Shirts. This feat of valor does more than...
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