The Wanderers - 1979

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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.


Director:
Philip Kaufman
Writers:
Richard Price (novel), Rose Kaufman (screenplay)
Stars:
Ken Wahl, Karen Allen and John Friedrich

"The Wanderers" is also a great time capsule film. Back in the day when the gangs fought amongst each other they didn't need to gun each other down, they settled there differences like men. Beware of the t.v. versions of this film. They're heavily edited with several key scenes missing.

This is surely one of the movies I have not watched. But seems nice. Well thank you so much for sharing that thread with us in this forum.