Word: tenementation
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...Young Savages. Savage gang warfare in the tenement-glutted asphalt jungle, in which the street punks fare far better than the plot-laden squares...
...MOVIES: the accents are fairly grim, too. The plot of The Young Savages is straight from Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the documentary scenes of punks and finks roaming through Manhattan's tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn juvenile jungle carry the authority of the headlines. In The Secret Ways, Richard Widmark is the hero on the run, and the Communists are the heavies...
...MOVIES: the accents are fairly grim, too. The plot of The Young Savages is straight from Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the documentary scenes of punks and finks roaming through Manhattan's tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn juvenile jungle carry the authority of the headlines. In The Secret Ways, Richard Widmark is the hero on the run, and the Communists are the heavies in this derring-documentary, photographed with edgy excitement...
...Young Savages. The plot is straight from Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the documentary scenes of punks and finks roaming through Manhattan's tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn juvenile jungle carry the authority of the headlines...
...Young Savages (Hecht; U.A.) is taken from Evan (The Blackboard Jungle) Hunter's novel, A Matter of Conviction, which chronicled some savage, real-life skirmishes in New York's teenage gang warfare. The film is at its best when at its ugliest-picturing punks prowling their tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn "turf" (territory), or an Italian gang stabbing a blind Puerto Rican boy to death, or the grim subway beating of Assistant D.A. Burt Lancaster, or the switchblade threats on his pretty wife. These scenes were excitingly photographed on location in Manhattan's juvenile jungle, but the plot...