Watch The Young Savages (1961) Free Online

Release Date: 1961

Cast: Larry Gates, Roberta Shore, Shelley Winters, Edward Andrews, Telly Savalas, Stanley Kristien, Milton Selzer, John Davis Chandler, Pilar Seurat, Vivian Nathan, Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Social problem film, Juvenile Delinquency Film, Courtroom Drama

The Young Savages is a 1961 crime drama film directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, and written by Edward Anhalt from a novel by Evan Hunter. The supporting cast includes Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters, and Edward Andrews, and The Young Savages was the first film featuring Telly Savalas, who plays a police detective, foreshadowing his later role as Kojak. A district lawyer investigates the racially charged case of two Italian teenagers (as well as an Irish teen) accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. The film explores several different gang issues, such as... MORE