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6 October 1960 (USA) moreTagline:
THE YOUNG PUNKS...and RUBY WHO WAS THEIR GIRL! morePlot:
An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. Aware that he is the only witness against them... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Very good film as I remembered seeing it 45 years ago. moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Jeffrey Hunter | ... | Fred Morrow | |
| Pat Crowley | ... | Ann Morrow | |
| Dennis Hopper | ... | William 'Cowboy' Tomkins | |
| Joby Baker | ... | Muggles | |
| Susan Harrison | ... | Ruby | |
| Johnny Nash | ... | Apple | |
| Corey Allen | ... | Magician | |
| Frank Silvera | ... | Det. Rafael Torno | |
| Bruce Gordon | ... | Arthur Robbins | |
| Terry Burnham | ... | Gloria Morrow | |
| Dennis Holmes | ... | Phil Morrow | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Hilda Haynes | ... | Apple's Mother (unconfirmed) | |
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)Fun Stuff
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Pretty good movie and relative to the times. But It was the song "Ruby Duby Du" that I remember. Its one of those tunes that once it gets into your head you can not stop it. I remember it being played throughout the movie but that was 46 years ago; maybe it was just the play on the radio and of course; bought the 45 as well. It was a hit song at the time. The gang leader's girl was named Ruby. As far as the film, story, itself; I remember the impression that movie gave me was one of helplessness or "how to fight such a terrible gang of young people". After all, its just a dad and his family. This was a movie about young thugs and a family. I could relate to the family but was frightened by the cold heartlessness of the gang. I remember the scene where the gang had entered the family's home and scratched the words "Key Witness" on the roof of their automobile inside the attached garage. That scene, for me, started the scary meanness threaded throughout the rest of the story. And oh yes, "the circle" with the father in the middle and finally one of the gang members went back-to-back with the dad as the movie's second hero. As I recall the daughter kinda liked that boy. Only the "Ruby Duby Du" song helped ease the tenseness for this 11 year old in 1960. I downloaded that song just a couple of years ago. Pretty cool dad...daddy-o.
Al