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The long journey back home of the Warriors begins. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cyrus, the messianic leader of the Grammercy Riffs, calls for a truce among all the gangs in New York City and asks them all to meet. During the meeting, Cyrus proposes that all the gangs unite to form one super gang so that they can take over the city.
The Warriors is a 1979 American action thriller film directed by Walter Hill. Based on Sol Yurick 's 1965 novel of the same name , the film centers on a fictitious New York City street gang who must travel 30 miles (48 km), from the north end of the Bronx to their home turf on Coney Island in southern Brooklyn , after they are framed for the murder of a respected gang leader.
The Warriors. Sol Yurick wrote the original book as a rebuttal to the romanticized view of street gangs presented in West Side Story (1961) based on his experience as a New York City welfare department worker. David Patrick Kelly improvised Luther's "come out to play-ay" taunt, basing it on an intimidating neighbour of his.
The Warriors: Directed by Walter Hill. With Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright, Brian Tyler. A street gang known as the Warriors must fight its way from the Bronx to its home turf on Coney Island when its members are falsely accused of assassinating a respected gang leader.
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The Warriors. "The Warriors" -- "a ballet of stylized male violence." “The Warriors” is a real peculiarity, a movie about street gang warfare, written and directed as an exercise in mannerism. There’s hardly a moment when we believe that the movie’s gangs are real or that their members are real people or that they inhabit a real city.
The Warriors is a 1979 American cult action/thriller film directed by Walter Hill and based on Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name. Like the novel, the film borrows elements from the Anabasis by Xenophon. Cyrus, the leader of the most powerful gang in New York City, the Gramercy Riffs, calls a midnight summit for all the area gangs, with all asked to send nine unarmed representatives for ...
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The Warriors is a 1979 crime/action movie, directed by Walter Hill and based on the 1965 novel of the same name by Sol Yurick, that tells the story of nine members of a New York City street gang called "The Warriors" as they fight to survive one very bad night. The movie starts with the Warriors arriving in a huge Bronx park to attend a summit ...
