is etched onto my mind. It took me until 2012 to watch it but BOY! was it tame compared to the violent reputation it earned upon its release.
Watchable but the violence is laughable by modern standards.
6/10
Mark (UK).
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Tortoise? What's that?
Sure you're not thinking of The Warriors? They came out around the same time. The Warriors has a violent rep, never heard anyone claim The Wanderers does.
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Ha! Ha! I'm a dunce! Yes, you're right - I'm referring to The Warriors.
I'll rip my own epaulettes off and send them too you.
Have a better one!
Jabberwoc.
Tortoise - what's that?
Yeah there was a string of flicks from that era with a similar feel.
Paradise Alley
The Wanderers
Lords of Flatbush
and of course the previously mentioned cult favorite The Warriors.
Seems like I'm forgetting at least one other.
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The only "controversy" around this movie was that after there was violence at some theaters where "The Warriors" played, the studios got very nervous about any remotely gang-themed movies they had coming up. So they really under-sold "The Wanderers" in its theatrical release and pretty much bypassed a theatrical release for "Over the Edge"--two movies that thus found their audience (and cult followings) primarily via heavy HBO play in the early 1980s. (A couple other, lesser movies were effected also.) "The Wanderers" wasn't controversial at all, but it got more or less swept under the rug because its studio was afraid it might get sued if the "Warriors" audience decided this movie deserved some real live gang fights, too.
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