DEETS- Walter Hill directing. Sol Yurick's 1965 novel and apparently inspired by ancient Greek story ~Xenophon's Anabasis~.
Shot in a neon framed 70s New York City.
The title street gang from Coney Island framed for the assassination of ""CAN YOU DIG IT?" Cyrus, [played by a NYNY Stage Thespian Roger W. Hill ] a charismatic Obama-like gang leader who attempts to unite all of the city's gang bangers. "CAN YOU COUNT SUCKAS"
Falsely accused by a weasel rival gang, the Warriors must then travel 28 miles across hostile urban decay-territory, that are all rival gang turfs, to make it back to safety and Coney's Big Wheel, WITH a PRICE on their Heads. "OH WARRIORS COME OUT TO PLAYYYYEEEEAAAAYYY "
A Cult classic that never lost it's raw concrete jungle edge. You can feel the early DNA cooked up by Hill, ozzzzing out of the Urban Jungle centered movies that followed, like Escape from New York (1981), The Terminator (1984), Judgement Night (1993), plus Hill's 2nd marvelous concrete world venture, a Rock and Roll Fable, Streets of FIRE/1984, another Neon Drenched masterpiece with Willem Dafoe, Mike Pare', Deborah Van Valkenburgh/from-Warriors and Diane Lane.
The Intruders Staring William Shatner directed by Roger Corman- one of the only films he lost money on- is one of the most realistic movies about modern day politics every made.
The Second is Distinguished Gentleman starring Eddie Murphy (which must be easy ish rights wise if I have watched years apart on youtube)
And "Being There" featurinf the trinagle offense of Jerzey Kacinzki / Hal Ashby/ and Peter Sellers. Those 3 would be a great political series
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