Alan Ladd & Rod Steiger in "13 West Street" (1962) - a vigilante film
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2024
- A rocket aerospace scientist, Walt Sherrill (Alan Ladd), is driving along an empty city street late at night when his car breaks down. After he is almost run down by a speeding car, he is brutally attacked and, for no apparent reason, viciously beaten by the occupants, a gang of well-dressed teenagers, the opposite of a slum dwelling street gang.
The police, including investigating juvenile officer Detective Pete Sergeant Koleski (Rod Steiger), are in the Sherill's opinion "acting too slowly", and seem too busy to focus on finding the culprits. So, brooding over his injuries, Sherrill becomes impatient with Koleski's failure to get immediate results. Sherrill decides to take the law into his own hands, and to go after them on his own.
Obsessed by his thirst for vengeance, this quest becomes an addiction for Sherrill which threatens the stability of both his job and his marriage, interferes with Koleski's work, and antagonizes innocent citizens.
Sherrill proves to be an amateur sleuth at best, going over ground the police have already covered. His wife, Tracey Sherill (Dolores Dorn) uncomfortably watches him use a gun he has purchased to take target practice on tin cans.
One night, Sherill spots a convertible that resembles one belonging to his assailants and tails it at high speed. The driver turns out to be a frightened teenage girl (Brenda Scott) who calls the police, and Sherill spends an uncomfortable night in the holding tank before Koleski has him released.
Following the death of Finney (Stanley Adams), a private investigator Sherill hired to track down the boys, Walt finally catches up with Chuck Landry (Michael Callan), the gang's leader, at his family's home.
Sherill's non-stop search for revenge and coercive attempts to see justice done eventually causes one of the gang members to panic and commit suicide. Chuck Landry, the wealthy psychopathic gang leader, counters by luring Finney to a dangerous section of road where he is killed, then coming to Sherill's home where he terrorizes Sherill's wife, Tracey, in revenge, and plans to shoot Sherill when he returns home.
Landry escapes from the police but Sherill takes the boy's address from his abandoned car, and is waiting there when Landry arrives. Sherrill beats him savagely with his cane. On the verge of killing him by drowning him in the Landry family's swimming pool, Sherill finally relents, realizing that he is sinking to the youth's own vicious level. Coming to his senses at last, he turns Landry over to Koleski to be placed under arrest. Tracey and Sherill leave the scene to go home.
A 1962 American Black & White neo-noir crime film directed by Philip Leacock, produced by William Bloom and Alan Ladd, screenplay by Bernard C. Schoenfeld and Robert Presnell Jr., based on Leigh Brackett's novel "The Tiger Among Us" (1957), cinematography by Charles Lawton, Jr., starring Alan Ladd, Rod Steiger, Michael Callan, Dolores Dorn, Margaret Hayes, Stanley Adams, Chris Robinson, Jeanne Cooper, Arnold Merritt, Mark Slade, Henry Beckman, and Clegg Hoyt. Screen debut of Brenda Scott, and final screen appearance for Kenneth MacKenna. Alan Ladd's production company produced the film.
The rocket launch failure at the beginning of the film is that of an Atlas SM-65 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Film rights to Leigh Brackett's novel were purchased by producer Charles Schnee, who had just left MGM and signed a deal with Columbia Pictures. He hired John Michael Hayes, Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" (1954), to write the script. John Wayne was announced as a star. It was then reported that Valentine Davies was working on the script, retitled "Fear No Evil." Production plans were delayed when Schnee announced he was leaving Columbia, claiming he was unable to get his films in development made because of "almost insurmountable casting difficulties." The project stayed with Columbia and was assigned to producer Boris Kaplan. Roger Presnell wrote a version of the script. Philip Leacock was given the job as director and Alan Ladd and Rod Steiger were cast in the leads. The title "The Tiger Among Us" was changed out of fear audiences might expect a jungle film. The new title was "13 East Street" then Alan Ladd requested "east" be changed to "west". "The story concerns a teenage gang from Los Angeles east side but I suggested the locale be switched to the swank purlieu of Bel Air", said Ladd. "I have nothing against Bel Air but I want to show that juvenile delinquency can breed in exclusive areas, too."
Penultimate film and last leading role for Alan Ladd before his death in 1964 at age 50. He appeared in a supporting role in "The Carpetbaggers" (1964). Alan Ladd and Margaret Hayes previously shared the screen in "The Glass Key" (1942). They do not have a scene together in this film.
A very good drama, far better than many of the mediocre films Ladd had been making through the 1950s and 60s, and a good way for Ladd to wrap up his all-too-short career. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
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Alan Ladd is an EXCELLENT actor ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🎞️🎞️🎥🎬
My favorite of his is 'this gun for hire'.
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Ladd's alcohol issue's show on his face, puffy and sad, ironic that he use's crutches' in this movie.
He probably died when Westerns died.
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Shane would not have tolerated such behavior
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Good movie.
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Ted Bundy vibes.
Deathwish vibes.
Great movie.
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Chuck is the perfect psychopath: cold, calm, calculating, without any real friends, his modus operandi is intimidation.
Ted Bundy.
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Rod Steiger is terrific.
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I always liked Dolores Dorn from seeing her in Underworld U.S.A.
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Also starring Chris Robinson, from 12 O'clock High.
Chris is the father , I believe, of Andy Robinson, of star trek TNG, and who played the killer in the Eastwood classic Dirty Harry.
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Having read my own comment, I made in error , it is deep space nine that Robinson stars in , not TNG. So sorry.
Good film , ''Deathwish'' inspiration ??
For sure.
I wonder if Ted Bundy was inspired too.
In the great words of C&C Music Factory, "Things that make you go "Hmmm"."
I can’t believe they could live in such an naive lifestyle?
They executed murderers in those days.
There was a deterrent.
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There's nobody that comes close to rod stagger
Yeah. Rod Steiger either.
Diana Dors
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Ted Knight as the school principal! Uncredited. What a mistake to change the title from "The Tiger Among Us" to "13 West Street."
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Well worth watching. When I was about 15, I saw "The illustrated man."
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I think this was based in a true incident
It was based on the detective thriller novel "The Tiger Among Us" (1957) by Leigh Brackett.
Shucks! Them pesky teenage kids of Jack Palance just palanced that sod buster good un proper! Don’t come back Shane, don’t come back….
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My dad said Ladd was short so they put beer cans n his shoes for extra height that’s what he said no foolin
His cars had blocks of wood on the accerator and brakes
Watch his 40s crime flicks where he plays a tough guy... literally used wrestling dwarves dressed as the heavies in the fight scenes, lol
Ladd was often paired with Veronica Lake because at 4' 11", she was shorter than his 5' 6" height.
Yeah and shoulder pads.
The greatest criminal is the rockt scientist who pursued revenge and created the entire scenario after the first attack on him.
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Don't mess with Shane.
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