13 West Street
Summary:
Leaning heavily on violence to ostensibly deliver a pacifist message, this standard drama by Philip Leacock looks at the problem of teen gangs from a slightly different angle -- these teens are all wealthy. Everything starts off when aerospace engineer Walt Sherill (Alan Ladd) is accosted and severely beaten by a group of young punks. The victimized man decides to hunt down the thu... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Alan Ladd - (Walt Sherill)
Rod Steiger - (Detective Sgt. Koleski)
Michael Callan - (Chuck Landry)
Dolores Dorn - (Tracey Sherill)
Kenneth MacKenna - (Paul Logan)
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Review:
A slightly below-average vengeance melodrama, 13 West Street is a precursor of later vigilante pictures such as Death Wish. It's also the next-to-last film for Alan Ladd, who at this point in his career was pretty much just going through the motions. Certainly that's the case here; Ladd's performance is distressingly dispirited. He's pl... Continue >>
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