Crime in the Streets

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Frankie Dane (John Cassavetes) is the leader of the hornets, a local street gang that has had its share of rumbles and other trouble with the police. When one of his members is fingered to the police by a neighbor (Malcolm Atterbury) for having a gun, Frankie vows revenge, and when the same man humiliates him in public, he decides it's got to be murder. But only two members of the Hornets, mentally unstable Lou Macklin (Mark Rydell) and would-be full-fledged member "Baby" (Sal Mineo), are willing to go along, and even one of them is shaky -- the rest of the gang draws a line at killing. Social worker Ben Wagner (James Whitmore), who runs the local youth center, has been trying to reach out to the members of the Hornets and sees that something is splitting Frankie and a couple of the others off from the main gang, and is concerned enough to find out what it might be -- especially when Frankie's younger brother, a really nice kid named Richie (Peter J. Votrian), tells him that he thinks Frankie's planning to kill someone. He tries getting help from Frankie's mother (Virginia Gregg), who's too tired from her job to do much more than keep Richie from becoming like his brother, and Mr. Gioia (Will Kuluva), "Baby"'s father, who doesn't understand what went wrong between him and his son. A three-way battle of wills ensues as Frankie tries to hold his plan together and resist Wagner's efforts to intercede -- in the end, several lives are at risk, as Frankie ends up with his knife at the throat of his own brother, fully ready to use it.

Cast

James Whitmore
as Ben Wagner
John Cassavetes
as Frankie Dane
Sal Mineo
as Angelo 'Baby' Gioia
Mark Rydell
as Lou Macklin
Denise Alexander
as Maria Gioia
Malcolm Atterbury
as Mr. McAllister
Peter J. Votrian
as Richie Dane
Virginia Gregg
as Mrs. Dane
Ray Stricklyn
as Benny
Dan Terranova
as Blockbuster
Will Kuluva
as Mr. Gioia
Peter Miller
as The Fighter
Steve Rowland
as Glasses
James Ogg
as Lenny
Robert Alexander
as Phil
Duke Mitchell
as Herky
Dick Curtis
as Redtop
Richard Curtis
as Redtop
Doyle Baker
as Chuck
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Critic Reviews for Crime in the Streets

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Audience Reviews for Crime in the Streets

  • May 08, 2012
    this is the usual concrete jungle/wild in the streets teenage delinquent drama, aside from cassavetes' intense performance, still a few years away from making his own films
    Stella D Super Reviewer
  • Jul 02, 2010
    No poster? so rude. I almost cried at the end. "Richie! You're my brother...I love you! Ahh so geat. So this kid Richie, a lousy good for nothing hood, wants to kill a man who slapped em. But does he have what it takes...you'll just have to find out. Don't mind the corny voice over.
    rocko p Super Reviewer
  • May 31, 2010
    Once you get past the stellar title sequence you'll probably spend most of the 90-minute running time wanting something very bad to happen to John Cassavettes' character. Crime in the Streets starts off kind of promising but it quickly turns into a Rebel Without Cause/Blackboard Jungle copycat with none of the charisma.
    Michael G Super Reviewer
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