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The Young Savages (1961) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by John Frankenheimer and produced by Harold Hecht and Pat Duggan.

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About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. The Young Savages (1961) stars Burt Lancaster as Hank Bell an assistant D.A. put on the case of three teenage Wops (Italians) that stabbed a blind teenage 'Spic (Puerto Rican) to death. A... Read full article


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When Burt Lancaster walked onto the set the first day of shooting, he was startled and dismayed to see the camera on the floor, aiming upward. Lancaster had never before worked with a director who used such innovative camera angles. He grew to trust Frankenhiemer, and they made four more films together.
Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters, who played former lovers in the film, were actually former lovers in real life.
Burt Lancaster was forced by United Artists to make four films for $150,000 a picture in the 1960s: The Young Savages, Birdman of Alcatraz, The Train and The Hallelujah Trail rather than his normal fee of $750,000, because of cost overruns at his production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, for which he was personally responsible.
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