The Warriors

The Warriors

  • Director: Walter Hill
  • Writer: Sol Yurick,David Shaber,Walter Hill
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: February 9, 1979
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Ratnici podzemlja
  • "The Warriors" is an action crime film directed by Walter Hill, starring Michael Baker and James Remar , adapted from Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name and released in 1979.
    The film tells the story of a charismatic leader summoning a New York street gang to try to take it over. When this person is killed, The Warriors are framed and they must fight back home while other gangs hunt them down.

    Details

    • Release date February 9, 1979
    • Filming locations 96th Street IRT Subway Station, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies Paramount Pictures

    Box office

    Budget

    $4,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $22,490,039

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $3,529,675

    Gross worldwide

    $22,490,471

    Movie reviews

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    • By Emmalee 2022-09-29 12:10:39

      Warrior without fear

      In a New York where time is uncertain, there are many gangs. At the call of the big leader, a total of 60,000 people from each gang sent representatives to participate in a key big gathering. However, at the meeting, the leader was shot and the assassin blamed the "Warrior Gang." In the dark, the entire New York gangs are chasing them...
      The plot of the film is very simple, but the atmosphere is very good: each gang has a uniform and unique costume, with strong rock music, in a...

    • By Dane 2022-09-29 10:00:54

      How did the American Young and Dangerous movie led by "Warrior Gang" affect Asia?

      First of all, Shigeru Okada, the owner of Toei of Japan, after watching "Warrior Gang" in the United States, urgently gave instructions to the director of Toei Films, Teruo Ishii: "ああいう新しい形の若者映画を日本でも作ろう, 1980sを先取りした 撃撃的な青年影画を一発打ち出してみよう (In Japan, we also shoot that kind of new form of youth film, and shoot an impactful youth film before the arrival of the 1980s). Just force it. Ishii Teruo started filming a follower film "The Violent Warrior." As a result, the follower film failed miserably...

    • By Marcelino 2022-09-29 09:51:23

      The American young and Dangerous boy who took the subway in the 1970s was trendier and cooler than Chen Haonan who drove a luxury car

      In the 1970s, there were many gangs in New York, USA, crime was rampant, and different gangs often fought for territory.

      That night, the underground godfather of New York, Sellers, held a rally, inviting 9 people from every gang in the city to discuss a truce in Fancortland Park.

      And called on everyone to unite and obtain jurisdiction from the government.

      At the meeting,...

    User comments

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    • By Aletha 2023-09-26 18:24:14

      A teaching film about gangsters posing before a...

    • By Lizzie 2023-09-25 12:21:07

      Luo Dao's homecoming is 81 difficult, and the comic transition is so cool! The brown-brown curly-haired brother is cute and the girl is so...

    • By Austin 2023-09-15 23:36:40

      Warriors, come out to...

    • By Dorcas 2023-09-14 00:21:28

      At that time I felt like an ancient dragon martial arts...

    • By Jerad 2023-09-07 00:44:18

      Young and Dangerous Americans, for some unknown reason, they formed a beam and opened...

    Movie plot

    Sellers is the leader of New York’s most powerful gang Gramercy Park complex. He gathered all the gangs in New York City to hold a midnight summit and asked them to send 9 unarmed representatives to von Cortland Park. , The Warrior Gang from Coney Island is one of them. Sellers asked the gangs attending the summit to cease fighting across the city in New York, thereby achieving the purpose of controlling the city. Most of the gangs...
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    Background creation

    The right to change the novel of the film was bought by American International Film Company as early as 1969, but the film has not yet been made. Producer Lawrence Gordon sent director Walter Hill a script excerpted from the novel. Gordon and Hill planned to make it into a Western film. The fundraising plan failed to materialize, so they sent the script to Paramount Pictures, Inc. Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Inc. was very interested...
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    Movie released

    The film premiered at 670 Theater on February 9, 1979. Without advance screenings and promotions, it won a box office of 3.5 million US dollars in the first weekend, but then the film involved three sporadic murders, one occurred. In Boston, the other two are in Southern California, involving fans waiting to watch the movie and watching the movie. Paramount Pictures, Inc. was forced to completely remove the film's advertisements on...
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    Evaluation action

    "The Warriors" was criticized by critics at the time, and it was pointed out that it lacked realism and had artificial dialogue. The Chicago Sun newspaper Roger Albert gave the two-out four-star rating, although Hill’s film skills make the film full of incredible maneuvering style, depriving the character of spontaneity and depth: "No matter what the advertisement gives The impression of the film is that the content of the action movie...
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    Movie quotes

    • Swan: [caught outside the subway by the Baseball Furies] Maybe we better take off...

      Ajax: Yeah, right...

      [they run]

    • Cowboy: [winded, running from the Baseball Furies] I can't make it.

      Ajax: Are you sure?

      Cowboy: Yes, I'm sure...

      Ajax: Well, good! I'm sick of runnin' from these wimps!

    • Swan: [to Mercy] Why don't you just tie a mattress to your back? You don't care where it is, do you?