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The Young Savages (1961)
103 min | Action, Crime, Drama | 24 May 1961 (USA)

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts in the case aren't exactly as they seem to be.

Director: John Frankenheimer

Writers: Edward Anhalt (screenplay), J.P. Miller (screenplay) (as JP Miller)

Stars: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews
Transcript
00:00I thought only girls wore necklaces That's no necklace. That's Jesus Cristo. You've got
00:15no religion? You've got religion. He's got religion, boy. My name is Sparrow, DA's office.
00:27Oh yes. I understand they're building a kid-sized electric chair upstairs for you people. Three
00:36boys came down the street. They pulled knives out of their pockets and stabbed Roberto.
00:45They killed him. You want to prosecute? That's up to you, but before you make any decision
00:56I think you ought to know. One of the defendants is a kid named Apache. I used to go with his
01:01mother when I was a kid. Oh boy, Hank, the papers would have a field day with this one.
01:08You are aware that under the laws of the United States, a man is presumed innocent until proven
01:12guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Those are three nice guys you're trying to frame. Those
01:17three nice guys committed murder. Lots of nice guys all through history kill people.
01:22In a war, the more people you kill, the more medals you get. Our readers are expecting
01:26the chair for the killers of this gentle and poetic blind boy. You're gonna kill my kid?
01:33You're gonna put his eyes out and come at him with knives in the darkness? You're gonna kill
01:38him like an animal, huh? Supposing he did have a knife. He would have been using it in self-defense.
01:45If he had a knife, we'll never make murder one stick with the jury. Here, so many people. There
01:52is no one here say to you hello. In this city and on these streets is no time for love. I hate
02:03crying. Crying is for babies. Crying is for men, too.

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