How do you review a movie like _The Warriors_? I've got a real short way for ya: _The Warriors_ is **the best** movie of the 1970s. _Final rating:★★★★½ - Ridiculously strong appeal. I can’t stop thinking about it._
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The Warriors
1979 EN 94 min
Overview
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
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Release date
01/02/1979
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Popularity
8.0
Michael Beck
Swan
James Remar
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David Patrick Kelly
Luther
Dorsey Wright
Cleon
David Harris
Cochise
Deborah Van Valkenburgh
Mercy
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Brian Tyler
Snow
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Tom McKitterick
Cowboy
Marcelino Sánchez
Rembrandt
Roger Hill
Cyrus
Steve James
Baseball Fury
Terry Michos
Vermin
Lynne Thigpen
D.J.
Mercedes Ruehl
Policewoman
John Snyder
Gas Station Man
Irwin Keyes
Policeman in Park
Antone Pagán
Gang Leader on Subway Stairs (uncredited)
Sonny Landham
Policeman in Subway Station
Thomas G. Waites
Fox (uncredited)
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Johnny Barnes
Turnbull A.C.
George Lee Miles
Gramercy Riff
Paul Greco
Sully
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Iris Klein
Lizzie (as Iris Alahanti)
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Tony Clark
Police
Robert Townsend
Baseball Fury (uncredited)
Ginny Ortiz
Candy Store Girl
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Edward Sewer
Masai
Joel Weiss
Rogue
J.W. Smith
Turnbull A.C.
Doran Clark
Lizzie
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Katie Kaufman
Lizzie
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Lisa Maurer
Lizzie
Craig R. Baxley
Punk (Black and Yellow)
Konrad Sheehan
Punk (Leader)
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Tommy J. Huff
Punk
Irwin Keyes
Police
Sonny Landham
Police
Frank Ferrara Sr.
Police
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Victor Magnotta
Police
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Apache Ramos
Orphan
Jery Hewitt
Baseball Fury Leader/ Punk (Beanie)
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Leon Delaney
Baseball Fury (Orange and Black)/ Punk (Plain Green)
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Rob Ryder
Baseball Fury (Purple)/ Punk (Plain Red)
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Steve Chambers
Baseball Fury (Purple)
Bill Anagnos
Baseball Fury (Blue and Orange)
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Harry Madsen
Baseball Fury (Green and White)
Victoria Vanderkloot
Lizzie
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Gary Baxley
Punk (Red, White and Black)
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Lane Ruoff
Baseball Fury
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Tom McNamara
Baseball Fury
Michael Garfield
Rogue
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Dan Bonnell
Rogue
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Tom Jarus
Rogue
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Tony Latham
Baseball Fury
Steve Garfanti
Gang Member
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Can you dig it? Well actually yes Mr Hill, I bloody can! During my schooling as a teenager there were a handful of films that it was deemed cool to love, The Wanderers, Scum, Quadrophenia and The Warriors, and it's perhaps a weird thing to say... but I still feel here in my middle age that these are still cool films to be adored and cherished. I have just sat through The Warriors again for about the hundredth time in my life, and it still entertains me as much now as it did back then, sure it's dated, sure I see more cheese than I thought it had back then, but I also see a visually tigh…
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In a dysfunctional New York City, the charismatic leader "Cyrus" (Roger Hill) assembles all the gangs and declares that it is time for them to overwhelm the police and to take control of their city. Amidst cheering crowds he is promptly gunned down - and the "Warriors" are held responsible. Led by "Swan" (Michael Beck) they must run a gauntlet of other avenging gangs and try to establish just who pulled the trigger. What now ensues is a really well paced, gritty, series of escapades that pit them against a whole range of thugs and hoodlums - of varying degrees of efficiency - whilst trying to …
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