After his wife and son got brutalized by a street gang, and a corrupt criminal justice system puts the perpetrators back on the street, a NYC factory worker teams up with a vigilante group t... Read allAfter his wife and son got brutalized by a street gang, and a corrupt criminal justice system puts the perpetrators back on the street, a NYC factory worker teams up with a vigilante group to find some measure of bloody justice.After his wife and son got brutalized by a street gang, and a corrupt criminal justice system puts the perpetrators back on the street, a NYC factory worker teams up with a vigilante group to find some measure of bloody justice.
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- Ricoas Rico
- (as Willie Colon)
- Ptl. Gibbonsas Ptl. Gibbons
- (as Steve W. James)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- See more cast details at IMDbPro
Storyline
- Taglines
- You're not safe anymore...
- Genres
- Certificate
- (Banned)
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaSandy Alexander who plays the prisoner who harasses Robert Forster in the film was in fact was the leader of the New York Hell's Angels unbeknown st to director William Lustig and after the film was released, Alexander was convicted of murder.
- GoofsPrago's stunt driving double during the car chase is Caucasian but Prago is African-American.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Nick: Hey, I don't know about you guys, but me... I've had it up to here. There are some 40-odd homicides a day on our streets. There are over two million illegal guns in this city. Man, that's enough guns to invade a whole damn country with. They shoot a cop in our city without thinking twice about it. Aw, come on. You guys ride the subway. How much more of this grief are we gonna stand for? How many more locks we gotta put on our goddamn doors? Now, we ain't got the police, the prosecutors, the courts or the prisons. I mean, it's over. The books don't balance. We are a statistic. Now, I'm tellin' ya, when you can't go to the corner store and buy a pack of cigarettes after dark... because you know the punks and scum are out there on the streets when the sun goes down, and our own government can't protect its own people, then I say this, pal: you got a moral obligation, the right of self-preservation. Now, you can run, you can hide, or you can start to live like human beings again. This is our Waterloo, baby! You want your city back? You gotta take it. Dig it? Take it!
- Alternate versionsThe film was cut by MPAA before the film was released in 1983, for graphic violence and in particular the pier scene where crooked politician and his lookout are killed with blood splatter lasting a bit longer and also the scene where the two patrol cops in their car are ambushed and killed underneath the underpass which filled with more blood splatter. This is the version that appeared on home video on the Vestron Home Video label and cable television.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Assassin(s) (1997)
- SoundtracksVigilante
(Willie Colón (as Willie Colon))
Arranged by Hector Garrido
Produced by Willie Colón (as Willie Colon)
Executive Producer Jerry Masucci
- ManBehindTheMask63
- Sep 9, 2008
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,091,888
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,588,464
- Mar 6, 1983
- Gross worldwide
- $5,091,888
- Runtime
- 1h 30min
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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