The Warriors (1979)
Genre: Action / Crime
Duration: 92 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Walter Hill
Stars: Michael Beck, James Remar and Deborah Van Valkenburgh
IMDb score:
7,5 (119.733)
Releasedate: 9 February 1979
The Warriors plot
"These are the armies of the night."
Cyrus, the charismatic leader of the street gang Gramarcy Riffs, wants complete control of New York. He needs the help of the other gangs to do that. When they unite, they are three times more numerous than the police and can rule the city. Cyrus reveals his plan during a late night meeting in the Bronx, where each gang has dispatched nine unarmed representatives. Everyone is enthusiastic and willing to join forces. But then Cyrus is shot by Luther, the leader of the Rogues. However, he claims that the murder was committed by one of the Warriors. Immediately the truce is lifted and the Warriors are outlawed.
Actors and actresses
Swan
Ajax
Luther
Cleon
Cochise
Mercy
Snow
Baseball Fury
Cowboy
Rembrandt
Reviews & comments
BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
Typically such a movie that I had long forgotten until I recently came across it in a MovieMeter Contest of Zandadder. Compared to my first viewing many decades ago, I am now so familiar with New York that director Walter Hill's juggling with locations is disturbing. But apart from that it is a reasonably entertaining film within the genre of street gang films.
Deborah van Valkenburgh still seems to make films, but to be honest I haven't heard from her after this film. That doesn't surprise me, by the way.
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thoyouknow1980
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- 171 messages
- 172 votes
Finally able to revise after about 30 years 
My rating for this film relies heavily on nostalgia.
Because as a teenage boy this made a lot of impression, that's a bit less now.
Nevertheless, it remains a great film, with tension, action and baking atmosphere 
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Lovelyboy
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- 4059 messages
- 3041 votes
It seems a rare film when I browse the marketplace, and what I sometimes find at the thrift store turns out to be astonishing. Not that I knew the movie, but a quick check on MovieMeter was enough to take the movie with me. Just like The Outlaw Josey Wales. What people do anyway...
The story should be clear, a meeting of all New York gangs where an attack takes place and the wrong gang is faked as perpetrators, after which a flight and struggle for survival can begin. By the way, not much more than a well-nicked and well-placed copy of a story from ancient Greece about a group of mercenaries in a similar situation called The Tour of Ten Thousand. As they say, better stolen well than poorly conceived.
You immediately notice the beautiful atmosphere in the dark streets of the sinister New York where danger can lurk around every street corner in every guise for the Warriors and now let every other gang look for these gentlemen. The twisted and appropriate Motown is also beautiful and the rest of the soundtrack can also be called wonderful. For a moment I see in gangs, in terms of clothing and painted faces, a parallel to A Clockwork Orange and the leader of the Riffs with his sunglasses reminds me a lot of Michael Jackson's Beat It. Furthermore, Deborah Van Valkenburgh is pleasant eye candy and David Patrick Kelly is, as always, excellent as a bad guy, that's what a guy is. The hunt, flight and build-up to a number of moments can be called very good and the fights in the metro toilet and against the Lizzies are beautiful and have beautiful moments in terms of camera work and editing. At the end comes a nice bit of sobering, is this what we fought so hard for?
All this makes the, until recently unknown, film a fascinating and atmospheric cult product that never bores me. Nice, nothing wrong with that.
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