The Young Savages DVD 1961 A Veszettek / Directed by John Frankenheimer / Starring: Burt Lancaster, Telly Savalas / Hollywood movie classics

UPC 5999546333015

REGION 2 PAL DVD  

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

Total Runtime: 100 minutes

English Summary:

Two Italian-American greasers, Danny DiPace (Stanley Kristien) and Anthony "Batman" Aposto (Neil Nephew), and the Irish-American Arthur Reardon (John Davis Chandler) are members of a street gang named the Thunderbirds in New York City in East Harlem. They have an ongoing turf war with a Puerto Rican gang called the Horsemen. The three Thunderbirds unleash a knife attack on Roberto Escalante (José Pérez), a blind member of the Horsemen and stab him to death. They are caught and arrested, and during questioning by the police, assistant district attorney Hank Bell (Burt Lancaster) discovers one of the boys is the son of Mary diPace (Shelley Winters), an ex-girlfriend.

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. Despite objections, he is not taken off the case and admits that he grew up in the same neighborhood. In a conversation with his wife Karin (Dina Merrill), Bell admits that his father changed his name from Bellini (Belani in the book) to Bell because he wanted to conceal his background and where he grew up, a deception Bell had found advantageous in pursuing his career and marrying a Vassar girl. At the funeral for Roberto Escalante, Bell is confronted by his ex-lover who tells him that her son promised he would never join a gang. Bell then sets out to find the facts about the killing, meeting one by one with all the families and gang members involved. He learns not only the intricacies of the case, but is shocked at his own capacity to kill when he is attacked by a gang, making him realize his hard-won character in the school of hard knocks is not immune to these forces. From a different angle, illustrating the limitations of a privileged education and upbringing, his wife finds her idealistic empathy for those caught in a web of circumstance is challenged when she is attacked by gang members in an elevator.

Hungarian Summary:

New Yorkban meggyilkolnak egy tinédzsert, majd nem sokkal később a rendőrség letartóztat három fiatalt. Az államügyésznek, Hank Bellnek gyors ítélethozatalról kell gondoskodnia, hogy a lakosság felizgatott kedélyállapotát lehűtse. Ez a gyors ítélkezés ráadásul még hasznos lehet a saját karrierje és a főnökei számára is. Bell, aki ugyanazon a környéken nőtt fel, ahol a feltételezett tettesek, a fentiek figyelembevételével vezeti a vizsgálatot. Amikor azonban kiderül, hogy az elsőrendű vádlott nem követte el a bűntettet, és egyéb körülmények is új fényben világítják meg a bűncselekményt, Bell konfliktusba kerül saját meggyőződésével is. Végül mégis úgy dönt, hogy kiáll az igazság mellett.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Burt Lancaster as Hank Bell
• Dina Merrill as Karin Bell
• Edward Andrews as R. Daniel Cole
• Shelley Winters as Mary diPace
• Larry Gates as Randolph
• Telly Savalas as Detective Gunderson
• Pilar Seurat as Louisa Escalante
• Roberta Shore as Jenny Bell
• Milton Selzer as Dr. Walsh
• David J. Stewart as Barton
• John Davis Chandler as Arthur Reardon
• Stanley Kristien as Danny diPace