Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst ...
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ken Wahl | ... | Richie | |
| John Friedrich | ... | Joey | |
| Karen Allen | ... | Nina | |
| Toni Kalem | ... | Despie Galasso | |
| Alan Rosenberg | ... | Turkey | |
| Jim Youngs | ... | Buddy | |
| Tony Ganios | ... | Perry | |
| Linda Manz | ... | Peewee | |
| William Andrews | ... | Emilio | |
| Erland van Lidth | ... | Terror (as Erland Van Lidth De Jeude) | |
| Val Avery | ... | Mr. Sharp | |
| Dolph Sweet | ... | Chubby Galasso | |
| Michael Wright | ... | Clinton | |
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Burtt Harris | ... | Marine Recruiter |
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Samm-Art Williams | ... | Roger |
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Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst and every bit entertaining with its classic 1950's Rock n' Roll soundtrack such as "Walk Like a Man", "Big Girls Don't Cry" by The Four Seasons and "My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels. Focusing around a football game where the different gangs play with and against each other, then at its grand finale, come together in a mass of union to defend their honour and their turf. Nostalgic stuff and above all a Rock n' Roll retrospective on a grand musical era. Timeless. Written by Cinema_Fan
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It's 1963. Meet The Wanderers... They were the hottest guys in town. See more »Genres:
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4 July 1979 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$1,937, 18 November 2016, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
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Nina: Hey, wait a minute there's something fishy going on here! You know, in a couple minutes we're going to be naked, and then what?
Richie: Then we play one more hand.
Nina: For what?
Joey: [whistles casually]
Nina: For What?
Joey: Then we get to do whatevah' we want to do.
Despie Galasso: OK, that's IT! We got to back to the party!
Richie: What the party? What are you talkin' about we're just havin' some fun here.
Nina: C'mon Despie, we don't have to stop playing.
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Organist: Chuck Ward
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach (as Bach)
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When the Baldies are chasing Joey and Turkey up the middle of the street, a 1970's era General Motors car is seen going across the top of the screen, after the VW Bug. See more »Quotes
Nina: [realizes Ritchie and Joey are cheating at strip poker with Despie and herself]Nina: Hey, wait a minute there's something fishy going on here! You know, in a couple minutes we're going to be naked, and then what?
Richie: Then we play one more hand.
Nina: For what?
Joey: [whistles casually]
Nina: For What?
Joey: Then we get to do whatevah' we want to do.
Despie Galasso: OK, that's IT! We got to back to the party!
Richie: What the party? What are you talkin' about we're just havin' some fun here.
Nina: C'mon Despie, we don't have to stop playing.
[...]
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Bach Adagio and Fugue in 'C'Organist: Chuck Ward
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach (as Bach)
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Interestingly enough, most of the gangs portrayed in the film were neither symbolic nor imaginary, but were based on various real gangs who existed at different periods throughout the fifties and early sixties.
Many of these gangs were not real gangs in the common theatrical sense, but were specific ethnic groups of teens from different Bronx and Manhattan neighborhoods. Of course, each group developed its own mythical idea of what the other groups were like, and in his novel, Richard Price used much of this teenage myth and lore.
Of all the well-embellished epics common to the teens in the Wanderers' neighborhood , those dealing with the Duckies were the most detailed and commonly accepted. The Duckies, whether or not they were truly an organized group with such a name, were "the guys across the tracks", insofar as The Wanderers were concerned (the tracks being the NY Central's Harlem Line). They lived in the predominantly Irish neighborhood directly across Bronx Park. I believe their frightening, near demonic quality in the movie was based on a single actual event when two of the Wanderers were actually attacked in the park. Since The Wanderers had never really engaged in any real "gang wars" (or any significant fighting for that matter), that particular episode was the source of most of their perceptions of the Duckie Boys' penchant for unbridled violence.