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Crime in the Streets

Don Siegel
USA
Synopsis
Frankie Dane is the leader of a street gang called the Hornets. Humiliated in public by McAllister, Frankie decides to kill the boy. Only two members of the gang, Lou Macklin and Angelo "Baby" Gioia, are willing to help him as the rest want nothing to do with murder. Ben Wagner, a social worker who runs the local youth centre, sees that something is separating them from the rest of the gang and tries to find out what it is.
Director
Don Siegel
Screenplay
Reginald Rose
Photography
Sam Leavitt
Edition
Richard C. Meyer
Music
Franz Waxman
Cast
James Whitmore, John Cassavetes, Sal Mineo, Mark Rydell, Virginia Gregg
Running Time
91 m.
Country
USA
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