Actually, the line is "This is what we fought all night to get back to?" I mean, being that it's your favorite line, you might as well get it right!! lol
Back in the day, I owned a couple video stores. We couldn't keep this movie on the shelves. We would hold movie night on the weekends and run a film on one of the big screen T.V.s that we sold. Warriors always drew a standing room only crowd. Love this movie!
Native of Brooklyn that basically grew up with this film. I still think about it whenever I walk the five miles or so from my house to the Wonder Wheel in Coney.
Me too brother. Every time I'm at Broadway junction East NY, I can't help but to think of the movie. They filmed the scene getting chased by the gang on the bus right underneath the station. I can't remember the name of the gang.
Favorite Scene was The Warriors Encounter With The Baseball Furies, the Look On The Warriors Faces Faces When They Exit The Train Station is So Iconic ! Hands Down The Best Scene in The Movie
@@stevenphillips4494 yeah... That .. every single Kung Fu movie fight... Thing.. I'll wait for my turn to fight this guy.. hahaha.. Dude!! His Back was to You Bro.. your holding a Bat!!.. Seriously... You got all Dolled up in matching outfits and Makeup.. hahaha.. to just watch your Bro get beat up..
I thought this movie was a bit over the top, but i was wrong. I'm an Aussie & my best friend at school was a New York Yank. His pop died in '81 & left him & his bro a fortune. He returned to Manhattan & bought a 5 story railroad building on Hudson near Worth. He invited me to visit him all expenses paid in '83. Of course I went. I was shocked by the dilapidation of the surrounding buildings & quite frankly scared shitless to even leave his place after dark. It was so scary I didn't visit him in NY for nearly 10 yrs
I was born a raised in nyc Manhattan at that and i had a uncle that had a condo/warehouse Apt from the 70’s till late 90’s around South Street Seaport it was weird n apocalyptic feel to that area in the 70’s it changed alot in the 2000’s….But in the 70’s nope scary ass hell at night hookers n weirdos cameout at night back then…😂😂😂It felt like when Snake Plisskin land on top of The old World Trade Centers n those weird ppl are scavenging 😂😂😂
@@JoseSantos-gl3vk I know NYC was crazy right? My friends parents lived on east 65th street in a beautiful brownstone one block from CP. Up there it was all clean, tree lined streets & safe.I remember driving with them along 5th Avenue & literally seeing it go from fashionable expensive retail stores, furs, jewellery, hi fashion, etc to graffiti covered, bricked up windows & hookers within the space of one block, it blew me away. It's heaps better nowadays that's for sure
@@spankynater4242 I meant the conditions in NYC at the time not the performance of the actors or the 'gang thing'. I grew up with derelict properties around, but the number of places bricked up or derelict in NY was astonishing. In my day there were Mods, Punk, Skinhead, Sharpies, Westies, etc all had their own style & characteristics not unlike the gangs in The Warriors. It must have been a 70s thing?
@@kenelliott4872 James Remar was a beloved character in Dexter opposite Michael C Hall, who played Harry Morgan his deceased father who appeared almost like a ghost to Dexter(Michael C Hall) throughout the 8 year series as an advisor and councilor to his son teaching him the "code". Remar(Harry Morgan) appeared to Dexter right down to the last episode in 2013 where Dexter quit executing violent criminals as a vigilante seeking to pursue a relationship with his love interest Hannah Mackay and raising his son, Harrison. I really enjoyed watching Remars' character all those years. He also played I believe the god Raven in Mortal Combat Annihilation.
I'm singin' in the rain, Just singin' in the rain, What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again! I'm laughing at clouds So dark up above, The sun's in my heart and I'm ready for love! Let the stormy clouds chase Everyone from the place, Come on with your rain, I've got a smile on my face! I'll walk down the lane With a happy refrain, Just singin', singin' in the rain!
Arguably the greatest film of all time. Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Song, Best Score, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress should have been won by ALL the Warriors. Can you dig it!
I was born almost a decade afterwards then it took about 2 more decades for me to watch it and it is in my top 3 movies of all time… that’s a great achievement for the Movie
I was a baseball fury for Halloween one year in college and everyone said,” damn, why didn’t I think of that!” I always loved the look of the film and how they created the look of the furies gang. Epic!
i have a furies baseball jersey. movie replica. i wear it to a sox game and get so many compliments. prized possession. yep, been that for halloween myself, how can you not right?
Can you dig it? A couple of my friends dressed as Baseball Furies in 1982. I found out, 25 years later, how the sight of them terrified the younger kids. I can't imagine why haha. They still talked about it all those years later.
Joe Walsh wrote the song "In the City", it plays after the final credits in the movie. The Eagles decided to include in on their Long Run album released later that year.
@@ILoveJahangeer I hadn't realized the Eagles had re-recorded it. My guess is so that the other members could "tweak it", and get copyright credit. Or maybe it was just contractual. Idk, all good!
LOVE this movie. Saw it at the drive-in with my folks when I was 9 years old and it's stayed with me ever since. This is one of the movies you made new friends with. Between this, Star Wars, and prime time KISS, I wouldn't trade my childhood for ANYTHING.
I returned to the US in 1979 as a 20yo and this was one of the first movies I saw in Texas, also at a drive in.. Now I'm on Social Security...time flies!
introduced this movie to my son when he was 17, he said it was ok.... but to anyone going to high school in NYC in 1979, we lived this movie every day..... facts
I couldn't believe it!!! I've watched The Warriors dozens of times growing up. Total cult classic. Fast forward to around 2008, I was working in a restaurant in Florida and a new guy started. Over the first few weeks of everyone getting to know him, he would tell fantastical stories of things he had done, one more unbelievable than the other. The first was that he used to have a big 30ft yacht. Then he said he had won the lottery twice. Then he said he had acted in a soap opera when younger. I wasn't buying any of it and was rolling my eyes with each new story. Then he asked if I had ever seen the movie The Warriors and that he had been an extra in it. That was it. I called BS. Well about a month later, he brings in a picture of him at the helm of the 30 footer, wife right next to him. He did actually win the lottery twice. One was tax free in the Bahamas and that's how he bought the boat. He did act in a season of one of the big soaps when he was younger, back in the 70's. I then had to go out and rent The Warriors on VHS at the local basement mom and pop movie rental and fast forwarded to the big speech in the beginning about fighting over the little piece of turf...and stop.... there he was in the shirt and necklace, right where he said he was. I couldn't believe it. We became the best of friends for the next year and a half. He sadly passed away due to chronic health concerns. I miss him more than I can say. Long live the true Warriors!
my favorite line was when they encountered the orphans and i think vermin said "(they have) 20. and that's a lot more than eight." (not sure about accurate count), to which ajax replied, "not if they're wimps. and i'm sick of this running crap!"
The bathroom brawl was perfect film making in ever way! The opening suspense, the following chaotic violence, the camera shots, the physical action and stunt work, the music, the sounds - perfection!
@@morbward8281 - It's not revealed in the movie and if you're saying it was your false. Now, if you know from some cutting room floor material or the novel, do share.
yep i remember watching warriors on HBO around sept 1980 right before the death of john lennon. i remember me and my best friend of the time folding inserts for the penny saver or the yankee trader or one of those lot while watching the movie. 13 and we sneaked out side to smoke a joint came back in to watch and fold wow i get flash backs thinking about it
Can't believe you left off: 1. Future Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl's first role as the whistle-blowing cop 2. Ajax, Rembrandt, and the leader of the Rogues co-starred in another Walter Hill classic, 48HRS . Otherwise, very fun and informative. I enjoy the concise style of the narrative. Liked and subbed.
Mercedes Ruehl's character ruined seeing Ajax continue. Ajax was by far my favorite and the baddest a$$ of the Warriors. Ajax - "I'm gonna shove that bat up your a$$ and turn you into a popsicle!"
Over the years, Mercy went from one of my least favorite to my 100% favorite. And the actress playing her was absolutely brilliant! Mercy actually had great character arc starting off as someone quite treacherous and sleezy to someone tough, loyal, and worthy of trust. And from the shot of "I can't go in there, that's the Men's Room!" and the epic fight scene after which she holds her own, to the train ride with the prom kids, to her making Swan crack a smile at their train stop, to her walking as an equal to the beach, to the shots of her and Swan in the end on the beach - she stole the movie's 3rd act to me!
I saw this in 1988 when I was 8 with my uncle and my dad. Has been one of my favorite movies of all time since the first time watching it. Love the music, the NYC setting, the characters....such a great movie.
Way before my time, but low and behold my dad had the movie on VHS, so I have watched it a number of times. Swan was my favorite, but you are right about the taunt, that is memorable, I even ask my dad about it and he agreed and he hadn't seen the movie since 1990 something, he was able to ring it right off just like in the movie.
My favorite moment in the film was when they got on the train and sat across from the middle class prom kids . Swan stops Mercy from straightening her dress . That and Mercy's speech about living in the moment because she's seen what happens to all the other girls in her neighbor speaks about the abject poverty and lack of hope these characters are existing with every day. That is the subtext of their world. You also never mentioned the DJ lady who spoke in code over the radio . Then at the end when they realize they accused the Warriors in error, she's like "sorry about that!" here's a song!! LOL!
*AJAX* was the toughest of the nine Warriors who went to hear Cyrus' speech. The Warriors were a much larger gang, but only sent 9 men like each other gang.
I dunno, Cleon looked like he knew how to rumble before he was overwhelmed by numbers. Swan was pretty good too. However, Emilio or Perry from the Wanderers would have beat them all.
I've lost count of how many times I've seen this movie. The soundtrack is on my favorites list on my Ipod and I hear at least two songs from the movie every day
Ajax, hands down. I've loved Remar in everything I've ever seen him in, and he just oozes that nasty, looking for trouble, gang member. I grew up in a rough part of Chicago and knew guys who were just like him, but for real.
@@billybio6840Not many ppl know about that film. It's kind of funny that it is all about illegal marjuhana growers and now pot is all but legal in North America.
One of my favorite films... I've probably watched it hundreds of times since I was a kid in 1979. Maybe it's a New York thing but I own the VHS, DVD, Blu-ray and have both versions (original and director's cut) on my DVR. I'm literally wearing a Baseball Furies t-shirt while I'm typing this. There are some great Warriors cast panel reunions on RUclips too.
I was already in a biker gang when this came out, so, naturally I went to see it, even after the president of our club ruined the ending for me by reciting the "You warriors are good - real good" ... "We're the best" bit to me before I went. One thing the video failed to mention though is the music. I bought the soundtrack album (still have it), a few days after watching the movie, and listened to Barry De Vorzon's themes endlessly at the time...usually stoned. A rather neat poster came with it too.
@@johnnyintrieri No poster! Man, you were ripperdy-doo-dah'd. I had mine for yonks'n'tonks before I decided that there was too much sellotape holding it together for it to look good on the wall anymore. I think I replaced it with that poster of the tennis chick scratching her arse. _Bonus!_
Best scene of the movie was when Swan and the rest of the warriors finally make it back to Coney Island. That final scene and the way it ended with "In the City" playing made that a lasting memory that inspires me to this day. It's a masterpiece.
great scene at the end and the perfect song for it. me and my friends will never forget seeing this movie as a young teen in the wild but exciting 70s in the city!
Well know writer Harlan Ellisons first novel was called Rumble later known as Web Of The City. Ellison actually spent time in a gang in the red hook district to gain insight for Rumble.James Remar who played Ajax in The Warriors had many roles after the movie including Harry Morgan as Dexters deceased father in the Dexter series.
I was about 12 when the movie came out, and can remember how so many young teenage boys wanted to be in a gang after seeing. It did glorify violence. But, its still one of my all time favs and inspired our young hockey to call ourselves the Warriors.
Me and a couple friends snuck into the theater to see this movie, yeah I’m old, but at the time it was the best movie I’d ever watched! My favorite gang was the baseball guys. 😎
Watched this film for 5 weeks running when it was released in the UK. John Wick 4 tribute to the Warriors, using the radio station announcer & music tracks during the Paris chase was just spine tingling, especially as most of the audience watching JW was to young to remember The Warriors or even to have seen it.
Thanks for this awesome nostalgia trip. You actually surprised me with a lot of trivia I had not heard before. This was one of my favorite films growing up.
@@kennysilvers-z4x Well as I mentioned in another thread I don't consider The Orphans for two reasons. First, they weren't invited to the pow wow as they were so small. Second, The Furies had baseball bats, and couldn't beat The Warriors. The quote from Ajax said it all "I'm gonna shove that bat up your ass, and turn you into a popsicle." Third, we never got to see an Orphans vs. Warriors fight as Swan threw a Molotov, and used the fire as a distraction for the group to escape.
Fact: Nobody was able to explain the biggest plot hole...That being, the Warriors (for whatever reason) did not see fit to drop a dime to get some of their 120 members to come bail them out or, at the very least, meet up with them when they arrived back on their home turf.
We saw this on my submarine USS Stonewall Jackson SSBN 634 I was 18 in Portsmouth NH/ Kittery Maine I was a cook. They used to get great new movies for us to watch
great video, well presented, it's one of my favorite movies. the big big problem i have with the directors cut is how he cut out the end of the movie with the music and the group walking along the beach. that was one of my favorite parts of the movie and now due the director's bright idea it's gone :( give me a DVD of the original movie please !!!!!
Swan is my favorite character. His personal character was shown to be resolute on the subway when the prom kids entered their car, all dressed up in their prom clothes. The camera did a head to toe pan of Mercy as if the prom kids were looking her over. Mercy went to straighten her hair but Swan kept looking at the prom kids and stopped Mercy before she could fix her hair. The prom kids looked back in acknowledgment and exited the car at the next stop. That was a great scene that spoke volumes without any dialogue. And it really showcased Swan’s unrelenting character and pride. He had no shame in who he was or the members of his gang.
that dude was the best in that movie. lol, to this day when my brother asks me what i'm doing, i tell him i'm going out to find me some wool. i'm 52yrs old, i use that line at least once a week. and chicks don't even have wool anymore, that's the thing. am i right? aww, and my wife, when she hears me say that pisses her off to no end. i laugh my ass off. "good luck finding "wool" at your age she says. don't tempt me dear. give me that hall pass, just one time. anyway, great comment.
There was just such a vibe in those years in NY,it was palpable.There was so much going on and this movie captured a part of it.Hustlers everywhere,tough guys,gangs,switchblades on every corner,burnt out buildings,crazy.We used to ride the trains through the city at night. NY will never be like that again
They wouldn't let me in to see it, I was with my older brother and they told him I was to young, I was 13 1/2 years old hahaha. He snuck me in at another theater hahaha. It was a very different movie back then and is still a favorite of mine. I've turned a lot of people on to this movie that are my age or younger that never heard of it. Joe Walsh in the soundtrack ( who can't think of The Warriors,) when you hear his tune from the end. The opening scene with that creeping music and the wonder wheel at night. Of course there's a lot good scenes and dialogue. But back in the 70s and 80s movie's didn't sugar coat the big cities, they were rough,dirty and dangerous. Cheers fellow fans
I remember when this came out. It caused riots in theaters where it played, and was banned in SOME cities around the U.S. It caused an uproar in violence.
A very well done Vid, I enjoyed it. Of course, I must add that there are 3 version of the film the I know of, the 1979 release, the 2005 Directors cut, and the some place 'the director did not like' version. I, of course, loved the last one, it had the back-round of the 9 Warriors. It let us know who and why they were, 'heavy muscle', 'War Chief,' 'the Book', the 'Tagger', and the 'other' soldiers. One other social comment was the timing of the release, 1973 was the start of 'busing' and the shift of population from city to 'anywhere else'. 1973 was just the starting date, it took a while for the entire nation to feel the effects.
I remember an old friend of mine Gary Humphries lending me this on VHS, we we're out playing as kids, as the day drawn to an end he went upto to his bedroom and brought me down the video " THE WARRIORS " as I stood on the front door step he said "watch it, it's a good film, I have now watched this film 77 times.... Soon to be 78. What a film !!!!!!. For me in my top 5 movies of all time........
Having lived thru that time in the 70's this film was real for the time but the big hit was the song the warriors no mention was given to it in this video but the theme song was a bigger hit at the time than the movie but both were very good
I remember the movie, but not the song. I was not aware there was a hit song associated with this movie. It's not the Scandal song, if that's what you're thinking.
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My favorite line : "And we fought all night to get back to this?"
I remember my pops telling me this was the best moment in the movie. All that fighting, for what?
I hate seeing anything going to waste.
@@christophercrahen9302 The hippie spirit hiding inside the gangster…
Actually, the line is "This is what we fought all night to get back to?" I mean, being that it's your favorite line, you might as well get it right!! lol
@@frankcarlone5130 Elementary dear Frank...🥱
The play by play of the DJ with the luscious lips and sultry voice really added to the pace and tension of this cult favorite. Love this flick!
She was in Carmen San Diego.
@@coburn_karmayep the chief
She wasn't too happy they didn't show her face. she didn't know until after the movie was done.
Lynn Thigpen RIP
The DJ was Lynn Thigpen
there was no mention of the female DJ who kept everyone informed as to how the Warriors were getting on
Hey boppers
Lynne Thigpen. I still hear the DJ when I hear her voice from anything on TV.
Was she the voice of where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
@@fredventura6700 YES!
She was also in the film version of "Godspell".
Back in the day, I owned a couple video stores. We couldn't keep this movie on the shelves. We would hold movie night on the weekends and run a film on one of the big screen T.V.s that we sold. Warriors always drew a standing room only crowd. Love this movie!
Cool!
One of the best movies
WARRIORS COME OUT AND PLAAAAY❤
Was waiting for it!!! The first thing I say when I hear of this flick. Of course you have to do the voice lol.
"Warriors, come out TO play"
Now ima want to find the movie 🎥
@@peterburry2014 To plaaaaayaay🤣
@lunakat702😂😅😂0
$4million to make made $22million in theaters a net profit of $18million not bad for a movie that flew under the radar.
You need to deduct the box-office split and marketing costs. So, you're probably talking around $5 million in profit.
One of the best gang movies ever, I remember seeing right after it was released, still watch it every year.
except for A Clockwork Orange and West Side Story (Just kidding, I never saw A West Side Story but heard it was good)
I was 14 and saw it in the theater. Movie houses let kids see R rated movies, at least the little one in my small town did.
Same here !! I remember seeing it a our Cinema 10 lol
@@DRM-kr9qp The Baseball furies gang reminded me of Clockwork Orange "droogs" gang.
@@DRM-kr9qp same here for west side...Clockwork was a crazy flick.."no time for the old, in out" lmao...
This is my favorite film of all times I still watch it to this day
Native of Brooklyn that basically grew up with this film. I still think about it whenever I walk the five miles or so from my house to the Wonder Wheel in Coney.
Im over here too. Technically Gravesend, but I see the parachute jump from where I usually park. I go down there for White Castle still
I'm jealous. Always wanted to go to all the film sites. Especially the Wonder Wheel, but only with the opening music playing😊
Or on any occasion, but crossing bridges into NYC is more than my car is worth
Me too brother. Every time I'm at Broadway junction East NY, I can't help but to think of the movie. They filmed the scene getting chased by the gang on the bus right underneath the station. I can't remember the name of the gang.
@@johnnybiggunz1141 Turnbull AC's
Favorite Scene was The Warriors Encounter With The Baseball Furies, the Look On The Warriors Faces Faces When They Exit The Train Station is So Iconic ! Hands Down The Best Scene in The Movie
Iconic , but the actual fight is ridiculous, the furies outnumber the warriors yet stand around in a semi circle and watch one on one mini battles 😂
My favorite scene is the bathroom fight vs the Punks! Everything gets smashed!
@@Bruin88Tough Guy.. Fight starter Wee Roller Skater ... Hahaha...
@@stevenphillips4494 yeah... That .. every single Kung Fu movie fight... Thing.. I'll wait for my turn to fight this guy.. hahaha..
Dude!! His Back was to You Bro.. your holding a Bat!!..
Seriously... You got all Dolled up in matching outfits and Makeup.. hahaha.. to just watch your Bro get beat up..
Did we lose these f*n clowns or what?
I thought this movie was a bit over the top, but i was wrong. I'm an Aussie & my best friend at school was a New York Yank. His pop died in '81 & left him & his bro a fortune. He returned to Manhattan & bought a 5 story railroad building on Hudson near Worth. He invited me to visit him all expenses paid in '83. Of course I went. I was shocked by the dilapidation of the surrounding buildings & quite frankly scared shitless to even leave his place after dark. It was so scary I didn't visit him in NY for nearly 10 yrs
I was born a raised in nyc Manhattan at that and i had a uncle that had a condo/warehouse Apt from the 70’s till late 90’s around South Street Seaport it was weird n apocalyptic feel to that area in the 70’s it changed alot in the 2000’s….But in the 70’s nope scary ass hell at night hookers n weirdos cameout at night back then…😂😂😂It felt like when Snake Plisskin land on top of The old World Trade Centers n those weird ppl are scavenging 😂😂😂
@@JoseSantos-gl3vk I know NYC was crazy right? My friends parents lived on east 65th street in a beautiful brownstone one block from CP. Up there it was all clean, tree lined streets & safe.I remember driving with them along 5th Avenue & literally seeing it go from fashionable expensive retail stores, furs, jewellery, hi fashion, etc to graffiti covered, bricked up windows & hookers within the space of one block, it blew me away. It's heaps better nowadays that's for sure
It was over the top. That was the point.
My dad worked for sanitation starting in 1973 in the Bronx off 3rd Ave and we’d go to pick him up from his garage. Was like another world back then
@@spankynater4242 I meant the conditions in NYC at the time not the performance of the actors or the 'gang thing'. I grew up with derelict properties around, but the number of places bricked up or derelict in NY was astonishing. In my day there were Mods, Punk, Skinhead, Sharpies, Westies, etc all had their own style & characteristics not unlike the gangs in The Warriors. It must have been a 70s thing?
Why no mention of James Remar? His character, Ajax, was my favorite.
@@kenelliott4872 James Remar was a beloved character in Dexter opposite Michael C Hall, who played Harry Morgan his deceased father who appeared almost like a ghost to Dexter(Michael C Hall) throughout the 8 year series as an advisor and councilor to his son teaching him the "code". Remar(Harry Morgan) appeared to Dexter right down to the last episode in 2013 where Dexter quit executing violent criminals as a vigilante seeking to pursue a relationship with his love interest Hannah Mackay and raising his son, Harrison. I really enjoyed watching Remars' character all those years. He also played I believe the god Raven in Mortal Combat Annihilation.
Ur nights in the park are over honey.
Didn’t he end up starring as a villain in the original 48 hours movie?
Lighten Up!
My favorite warrior Ajax!!! He did play lots of small parts on TV shows and movies after the warriors.
Swan is the man, the best scene was the baseball furies fight.
A Clockwork Orange 1971, Scum 79, The Warriors 79 & The Wanderers 79 are four iconic movies from that decade.
I'm singin' in the rain,
Just singin' in the rain,
What a glorious feeling,
I'm happy again!
I'm laughing at clouds
So dark up above,
The sun's in my heart and I'm ready for love!
Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place,
Come on with your rain,
I've got a smile on my face!
I'll walk down the lane
With a happy refrain,
Just singin', singin' in the rain!
And don’t forget Quadraphenia
Mods mayday film 🤙🏾
I have been a Mod for 45 years ✊🏽
IMHO you would also have to add "Apocalypse Now" to that list.
If
All great films...i still watch the wanderers on occasion
One of the greatest films ever
What??
@@TINK1667 was my comment too hard to comprehend for you?
Have you seen any others 😂
They couldn't run a bath😅
@@Venomn1 no smart arse, I was commenting what?? As a surprise
Arguably the greatest film of all time. Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Song, Best Score, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress should have been won by ALL the Warriors. Can you dig it!
I was born almost a decade afterwards then it took about 2 more decades for me to watch it and it is in my top 3 movies of all time… that’s a great achievement for the Movie
@@tribegoldie4282 Thank you for the reply. I am so pleased to find new people who dig it!
Great movie👍👍👍.
Grew up in NYC back then. The city was violent already, movies had nothing to do with it. That movie was awesome!
Yeah they were wildin out way before that flick came out.
I graduated High School in 1979 and this movie was so much fun to watch. The Gaurdian Angels hated this movie.
I wonder did you noticed they showed Curtis Sliwa in this video?
@@TheSavageRepairman I graduated in 79 also, and saw this movie that same year 😄
I don't think people liked the Guardian Angels at the time either...
@@yell0wberry Is that the young Curtis Sliwa? 3:00
Bunch of Wimps! 😂
I was a baseball fury for Halloween one year in college and everyone said,” damn, why didn’t I think of that!” I always loved the look of the film and how they created the look of the furies gang. Epic!
i have a furies baseball jersey. movie replica. i wear it to a sox game and get so many compliments. prized possession.
yep, been that for halloween myself, how can you not right?
It would STILL be a great Halloween costume
There was something about how it was filmed. The colours were so vibrant.
Oh Wow. Yes! Truth Indeed
Can you dig it? A couple of my friends dressed as Baseball Furies in 1982. I found out, 25 years later, how the sight of them terrified the younger kids. I can't imagine why haha. They still talked about it all those years later.
Joe Walsh wrote the song "In the City", it plays after the final credits in the movie.
The Eagles decided to include in on their Long Run album released later that year.
best sounddrop of all time.....
Strange, but that song made me want to move to NY, and I did. I now live in Washington Heights, in the city!
@@mayorb3366 That's cool, I don't remember that though.
They re-record it as an Eagles version, the film version is his solo one, which I think is much better.
@@ILoveJahangeer I hadn't realized the Eagles had re-recorded it.
My guess is so that the other members could "tweak it", and get copyright credit.
Or maybe it was just contractual. Idk, all good!
LOVE this movie. Saw it at the drive-in with my folks when I was 9 years old and it's stayed with me ever since. This is one of the movies you made new friends with. Between this, Star Wars, and prime time KISS, I wouldn't trade my childhood for ANYTHING.
I returned to the US in 1979 as a 20yo and this was one of the first movies I saw in Texas, also at a drive in.. Now I'm on Social Security...time flies!
Yes!,Truth Indeed
I was in high school when the Warriors came out so it brings back a lot of memories.
Me too,
One of my ALL time favorites, but how could there be no mention of James Remar? He was the biggest actor to come out of that movie by far.
IKR?????
I believe Remar was in Django as well.
He played Samanthas sex and city's bf.
Ajax
He was amazing in Walter Hill's 48 hours too
introduced this movie to my son when he was 17, he said it was ok.... but to anyone going to high school in NYC in 1979, we lived this movie every day..... facts
lol truth
yup.
Word!
I couldn't believe it!!! I've watched The Warriors dozens of times growing up. Total cult classic. Fast forward to around 2008, I was working in a restaurant in Florida and a new guy started. Over the first few weeks of everyone getting to know him, he would tell fantastical stories of things he had done, one more unbelievable than the other. The first was that he used to have a big 30ft yacht. Then he said he had won the lottery twice. Then he said he had acted in a soap opera when younger. I wasn't buying any of it and was rolling my eyes with each new story. Then he asked if I had ever seen the movie The Warriors and that he had been an extra in it. That was it. I called BS. Well about a month later, he brings in a picture of him at the helm of the 30 footer, wife right next to him. He did actually win the lottery twice. One was tax free in the Bahamas and that's how he bought the boat. He did act in a season of one of the big soaps when he was younger, back in the 70's. I then had to go out and rent The Warriors on VHS at the local basement mom and pop movie rental and fast forwarded to the big speech in the beginning about fighting over the little piece of turf...and stop.... there he was in the shirt and necklace, right where he said he was. I couldn't believe it. We became the best of friends for the next year and a half. He sadly passed away due to chronic health concerns. I miss him more than I can say. Long live the true Warriors!
All that money couldn't buy health. A life lesson.
@@monaezytwo6513 can't have been that much if he was working in a restaurant..
@@logosfocus He won 2 lotteries!
Walter Hill is one of the most underrated directors in cinema history.
Driver is yet another CLASSIC 👍
Agreed, love Southern Comfort another favorite
my favorite line was when they encountered the orphans and i think vermin said "(they have) 20. and that's a lot more than eight." (not sure about accurate count), to which ajax replied, "not if they're wimps. and i'm sick of this running crap!"
@@mistermattmoose😂😅😂
@@mistermattmoose You Saying!! We Ain't Known!!??..
Hahaha..
When dude pulls out the News Clipping.. hahaha
I also LOVE the background music during the Baseball Furies chases......
That's the Warriors theme song.
Ajax was badass I liked him, Vermin, & Cochise. Favorite moment so many but, I gotta go The Bathroom fight was one of the best
The bathroom brawl was perfect film making in ever way! The opening suspense, the following chaotic violence, the camera shots, the physical action and stunt work, the music, the sounds - perfection!
Straight up!
Cochise throws that Motherfucker through the door...In slow motion! Awesome.
100%
Ajax was down also 😊
Luther was one of the best villains in movies at that time. “ COME OUT AND PLAY…AAAYYY.
He still is
Made a LONG career of playing villains!
He made two phone calls during the movie. Who did he call?
@@morbward8281 - It's not revealed in the movie and if you're saying it was your false. Now, if you know from some cutting room floor material or the novel, do share.
He actually played a nice bad guy in 48 Hours, with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphey
Watched this in the 80s on HBO over and over and over.
yep i remember watching warriors on HBO around sept 1980 right before the death of john lennon. i remember me and my best friend of the time folding inserts for the penny saver or the yankee trader or one of those lot while watching the movie. 13 and we sneaked out side to smoke a joint came back in to watch and fold wow i get flash backs thinking about it
Can't believe you left off: 1. Future Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl's first role as the whistle-blowing cop 2. Ajax, Rembrandt, and the leader of the Rogues co-starred in another Walter Hill classic, 48HRS . Otherwise, very fun and informative. I enjoy the concise style of the narrative. Liked and subbed.
Ur nights in the park are over honey!
Let's not leave out the infamous DJ who went on to play iconic roles.
Mercedes Ruehl's character ruined seeing Ajax continue. Ajax was by far my favorite and the baddest a$$ of the Warriors. Ajax - "I'm gonna shove that bat up your a$$ and turn you into a popsicle!"
Over the years, Mercy went from one of my least favorite to my 100% favorite. And the actress playing her was absolutely brilliant! Mercy actually had great character arc starting off as someone quite treacherous and sleezy to someone tough, loyal, and worthy of trust. And from the shot of "I can't go in there, that's the Men's Room!" and the epic fight scene after which she holds her own, to the train ride with the prom kids, to her making Swan crack a smile at their train stop, to her walking as an equal to the beach, to the shots of her and Swan in the end on the beach - she stole the movie's 3rd act to me!
Don’t read the book lol. Her origin material does not have such a happy ending
She goes on to play a lovable character on the show too close for comfort, but yet, in the movies played an avenging hooker known as angel
@@ItsWickked real disturbing stuff what the gang did to her as well as what a LGBTQ gang did to swan while the original leader actually lived
Well put. Love that scene with the prom kids. It's a life she never got to experience.
She's bloody gorgeous too
I saw this in 1988 when I was 8 with my uncle and my dad. Has been one of my favorite movies of all time since the first time watching it. Love the music, the NYC setting, the characters....such a great movie.
Way before my time, but low and behold my dad had the movie on VHS, so I have watched it a number of times. Swan was my favorite, but you are right about the taunt, that is memorable, I even ask my dad about it and he agreed and he hadn't seen the movie since 1990 something, he was able to ring it right off just like in the movie.
It makes zero difference that it was before your time.
My favorite moment in the film was when they got on the train and sat across from the middle class prom kids . Swan stops Mercy from straightening her dress . That and Mercy's speech about living in the moment because she's seen what happens to all the other girls in her neighbor speaks about the abject poverty and lack of hope these characters are existing with every day. That is the subtext of their world.
You also never mentioned the DJ lady who spoke in code over the radio . Then at the end when they realize they accused the Warriors in error, she's like "sorry about that!" here's a song!! LOL!
Over 40 years later and this film still blows my mind.
*AJAX* was the toughest of the nine Warriors who went to hear Cyrus' speech.
The Warriors were a much larger gang, but only sent 9 men like each other gang.
I dunno, Cleon looked like he knew how to rumble before he was overwhelmed by numbers. Swan was pretty good too. However, Emilio or Perry from the Wanderers would have beat them all.
" You're just a part of everything that's happened tonight... And it's all bad"
Nailed it
My cousin from the Bronx, he was in a Street gang called The Salvage Skulls. He worked on this film as an extra and consultant. Can you *DIGG IT.
Savage Skulls you mean
Savage Skulls were the real deal.
My uncle was leader of the Queens chapter of Savage Skulls
Best part......BY FAR......was David Patrick Kelly's "Warriors.....come out to play-yeah" with the bottles. SO ICONIC!!
I've lost count of how many times I've seen this movie. The soundtrack is on my favorites list on my Ipod and I hear at least two songs from the movie every day
First song ( instrumental) and the last song ( In the city) my favs
One of the GREATEST Movies 🎥 EVER !!!!!!!!
"I can't make it"
"You sure?"
"Yeah, I'm sure."
"Good, I'm sick of running from these pricks!"
Gotta love Ajax!
Didn't he say wimps? I will have to watch it again...LOL
Nonsense! The worst thing Walter Hill ever did was butcher The Warriors with his director's cut. Most people despise it.
I agree. That is one of the points I absolutely disagree within the video.
@@questionmanga3963 Did not like at first, but it grew on me
Absolutely. The director's cut is garbage.
Agreed.
VHS usually has the best versions of a film.
After that, it just gets watered down bad.
Never seen the directors cut why is it so bad?
The sound track is a piece of art on itself, matches the movie perfectly.
Ajax, hands down. I've loved Remar in everything I've ever seen him in, and he just oozes that nasty, looking for trouble, gang member. I grew up in a rough part of Chicago and knew guys who were just like him, but for real.
Can u imagine if Ajax joined with Luther?! The 2 most unhinged, antisocial, maniacs let loose in the city at nite feeding off eachother??
I agree, Quiet Cool is an awesome movie too he stars in
@george sometimes though it isn't just about violence or being a thug too sometimes its about being street savy using your brains too.
"Heavy muscle."
Ajax was great. "What, are you goin' f@ggot on me?"
@@billybio6840Not many ppl know about that film. It's kind of funny that it is all about illegal marjuhana growers and now pot is all but legal in North America.
As a retired Marine it’s what I fear most-gangs on roller skates. 🙈🏃🏽♂️🏃🏻➡️😳😱
I think there was a Punisher story with guys like that.
It's always been funny....
Even as a kid....
Hmmmm🤔...
Confused by the.. Wee Roller Skater Tough Guy in Overalls...
He just needs a Lollipop hahaha
Well, who doesn't fear that?!
One of my favorite films... I've probably watched it hundreds of times since I was a kid in 1979. Maybe it's a New York thing but I own the VHS, DVD, Blu-ray and have both versions (original and director's cut) on my DVR. I'm literally wearing a Baseball Furies t-shirt while I'm typing this. There are some great Warriors cast panel reunions on RUclips too.
I have the sound track on CD.
@@JayDee-xj9lu Me too!
Seriously how can you pick just one scene or just one quote? There are so many great scenes and quotes to choose from!!
“You’re just a part of everything that’s happening tonight, and it’s all bad”…. Favorite line. I’ve even used it a couple of times!😵💫
A masterpiece that proves you shouldn't bow to the few that are offended by everything.
Very true, this is the reason there is nothing and I mean NOTHING good coming out of Hollywood lately
My favorite movie of all-time 🎉
One of those films I watch at least once a year. It never gets old.
Awesome video, great works.
In the ending scene cue up - Joe Walsh’s (In the City) soundtrack. What an iconic song to end this classic !
@@KLivas-wd8bd100% , best sound drop in movie history
I was already in a biker gang when this came out, so, naturally I went to see it, even after the president of our club ruined the ending for me by reciting the "You warriors are good - real good" ... "We're the best" bit to me before I went.
One thing the video failed to mention though is the music. I bought the soundtrack album (still have it), a few days after watching the movie, and listened to Barry De Vorzon's themes endlessly at the time...usually stoned. A rather neat poster came with it too.
"The Best" not "We're the best".
Seen it countless times. Own the DVD.
I didn't get a movie poster in my album. Crap! I still have album at 69 years old. Was 24 when movie came out.
Barry DeVorson was the lead singer in Barry & The Tamberlanes. 1 hit wonders. I LOVE the song. I Wonder What She's Doin'. Check it out on RUclips.
@@johnnyintrieri No poster! Man, you were ripperdy-doo-dah'd. I had mine for yonks'n'tonks before I decided that there was too much sellotape holding it together for it to look good on the wall anymore. I think I replaced it with that poster of the tennis chick scratching her arse. _Bonus!_
@@johnnyintrieri Hmm, I had a listen, but it's not quite my style. I'm more of a Bob Dylan guy myself.
Best scene of the movie was when Swan and the rest of the warriors finally make it back to Coney Island. That final scene and the way it ended with "In the City" playing made that a lasting memory that inspires me to this day. It's a masterpiece.
great scene at the end and the perfect song for it. me and my friends will never forget seeing this movie as a young teen in the wild but exciting 70s in the city!
How could you NOT mention the woman radio announcer with the distinct mouth saying, "Be lookin' good, Warriors. All the way back to Coney."
Great movie. One of the few from the 70's that still holds up today.
Luther! The final beach scene. Swan: “Why’d you do it? Why’d you waste Cyrus?”
Luther:
“No reason…I just like doin things like that!” Hahahahaha!
The Proto-Joker confirmed!
All of them, and every minute of it. LOVE this movie!
Well know writer Harlan Ellisons first novel was called Rumble later known as Web Of The City. Ellison actually spent time in a gang in the red hook district to gain insight for Rumble.James Remar who played Ajax in The Warriors had many roles after the movie including Harry Morgan as Dexters deceased father in the Dexter series.
Wasn’t sure of this movie when I was a teenager. Had to watch it fifty times to make sure I loved it! 👊
Where they filmed the park scene in the beginning is Riverside Park where I hung out with my buddies. Not in the Bronx. Great times.
Ajax being arrested was police entrapment. My favorite character in the movie
I was about 12 when the movie came out, and can remember how so many young teenage boys wanted to be in a gang after seeing. It did glorify violence. But, its still one of my all time favs and inspired our young hockey to call ourselves the Warriors.
When films were unwoke , gritty snd fun.
A brilliant movie
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Derp
I don't know, they were a racially diverse gang, which wasn't very common back then. Seems pretty woke.
@@jamespohl-md2eq triggered
@@KennyMonoxideMoar derp
James Remar still has his vest that he wore from the movie.
Me and a couple friends snuck into the theater to see this movie, yeah I’m old, but at the time it was the best movie I’d ever watched! My favorite gang was the baseball guys. 😎
Yep, the encounter with the Baseball Furies, brilliant, almost visceral.
*The Baseball Furies scared me...out of all the gangs...Just so surreal.*
I was a kid who loved Kiss at the time, but the movie trailer scene with the Furies scared me a bit until I saw the full movie lol
@@kennysilvers-z4x *I'm 77 and they*
*STILL scare me...I am obsessed with*
*The Warriors...obsessed!*
Watched this film for 5 weeks running when it was released in the UK. John Wick 4 tribute to the Warriors, using the radio station announcer & music tracks during the Paris chase was just spine tingling, especially as most of the audience watching JW was to young to remember The Warriors or even to have seen it.
Favorite moment: Mercy" I can't go in there that's a men's room.
Vermin peeking his head out " "Are you kidding?"
My favourite film of all time!
Thanks for this awesome nostalgia trip. You actually surprised me with a lot of trivia I had not heard before. This was one of my favorite films growing up.
A classic movie my friends and I watched wen we were younger it's a very good movie and also stars James remar
Both The Warriors and The Wanderers are brilliant films. Saw them when released on VHS in England. Great video 😊👍🐾💜
Best looking gang: The Baseball Furies.
Wimpiest Gang: The Baseball Furies.
I thought the Orphans took wimpiest lol
@@kennysilvers-z4x Well as I mentioned in another thread I don't consider The Orphans for two reasons. First, they weren't invited to the pow wow as they were so small. Second, The Furies had baseball bats, and couldn't beat The Warriors. The quote from Ajax said it all "I'm gonna shove that bat up your ass, and turn you into a popsicle." Third, we never got to see an Orphans vs. Warriors fight as Swan threw a Molotov, and used the fire as a distraction for the group to escape.
What do you expect from pretty boys!?!
Fact: Nobody was able to explain the biggest plot hole...That being, the Warriors (for whatever reason) did not see fit to drop a dime to get some of their 120 members to come bail them out or, at the very least, meet up with them when they arrived back on their home turf.
We saw this on my submarine USS Stonewall Jackson SSBN 634 I was 18 in Portsmouth NH/ Kittery Maine I was a cook. They used to get great new movies for us to watch
The end when the Warriors get to Coney Island and handle Luther. The respect that the Riffs and Warriors had at the end was great.
great video, well presented, it's one of my favorite movies. the big big problem i have with the directors cut is how he cut out the end of the movie with the music and the group walking along the beach. that was one of my favorite parts of the movie and now due the director's bright idea it's gone :( give me a DVD of the original movie please !!!!!
Me and my buddies first watched this movie in the early 80s on a bootleg Betamax copy and loved it. Watched it over and over again.
Always my favourite line *clink clink clink* "warriors, come out and play" *clink clink clink*
It's "warriorssss, come out TO playeeyayyyy."
@@thebargainshack6901 😆
Swan is my favorite character. His personal character was shown to be resolute on the subway when the prom kids entered their car, all dressed up in their prom clothes. The camera did a head to toe pan of Mercy as if the prom kids were looking her over. Mercy went to straighten her hair but Swan kept looking at the prom kids and stopped Mercy before she could fix her hair. The prom kids looked back in acknowledgment and exited the car at the next stop. That was a great scene that spoke volumes without any dialogue. And it really showcased Swan’s unrelenting character and pride. He had no shame in who he was or the members of his gang.
I want all of them, I want all the Warriors alive if possible if not wasted
...but, I WANT them...
SEND THE WORD! 😂
HIV killed Rembrandt actor in 1986 , developed cancer due to immunodeficiency AIDS caused him 😭
@@socalautisticman1975What was his first name?
@@StMichael7 Marcelino I think
Noice! Toight! Nobody effs with the Riffs
Yeah, I love The Wanderers also.
Leave... the kid... alone..
Ajax in every scene: "Maybe we'll meet some strange wool"; "Not if they're a bunch of wimps", etc etc
that dude was the best in that movie. lol, to this day when my brother asks me what i'm doing, i tell him i'm going out to find me some wool. i'm 52yrs old, i use that line at least once a week. and chicks don't even have wool anymore, that's the thing. am i right? aww, and my wife, when she hears me say that pisses her off to no end. i laugh my ass off. "good luck finding "wool" at your age she says. don't tempt me dear. give me that hall pass, just one time. anyway, great comment.
Strange wolf.....
Strange WOOF.
There was just such a vibe in those years in NY,it was palpable.There was so much going on and this movie captured a part of it.Hustlers everywhere,tough guys,gangs,switchblades on every corner,burnt out buildings,crazy.We used to ride the trains through the city at night.
NY will never be like that again
Favorite Character: Ajax (James Remar)
Favorite Moment: Cyrus' EPIC speech
THIS IS A MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!!!!
One of the best films I've ever seen. I even have the video game. Nostalgia Hit thank you for the awesome video.
Video game is also excellent
They wouldn't let me in to see it, I was with my older brother and they told him I was to young, I was 13 1/2 years old hahaha.
He snuck me in at another theater hahaha. It was a very different movie back then and is still a favorite of mine. I've turned a lot of people on to this movie that are my age or younger that never heard of it. Joe Walsh in the soundtrack ( who can't think of The Warriors,) when you hear his tune from the end. The opening scene with that creeping music and the wonder wheel at night. Of course there's a lot good scenes and dialogue. But back in the 70s and 80s movie's didn't sugar coat the big cities, they were rough,dirty and dangerous.
Cheers fellow fans
hahaha
YES, TRUTH iNDEED
I remember when this came out. It caused riots in theaters where it played, and was banned in SOME cities around the U.S. It caused an uproar in violence.
A very well done Vid, I enjoyed it. Of course, I must add that there are 3 version of the film the I know of, the 1979 release, the 2005 Directors cut, and the some place 'the director did not like' version. I, of course, loved the last one, it had the back-round of the 9 Warriors. It let us know who and why they were, 'heavy muscle', 'War Chief,' 'the Book', the 'Tagger', and the 'other' soldiers.
One other social comment was the timing of the release, 1973 was the start of 'busing' and the shift of population from city to 'anywhere else'. 1973 was just the starting date, it took a while for the entire nation to feel the effects.
No, there's only one version: the 79 theatrical release version.
I remember an old friend of mine Gary Humphries lending me this on VHS, we we're out playing as kids, as the day drawn to an end he went upto to his bedroom and brought me down the video
" THE WARRIORS " as I stood on the front door step he said "watch it, it's a good film,
I have now watched this film 77 times.... Soon to be 78.
What a film !!!!!!.
For me in my top 5 movies of all time........
Gary was a good dude.
No mention of Lynn Thigpen? Her DJ character was epic.
Warriors Come Out To Play. This was not in the script. The actor actually made it up on the spur of the moment. Great line.
Having lived thru that time in the 70's this film was real for the time but the big hit was the song the warriors no mention was given to it in this video but the theme song was a bigger hit at the time than the movie but both were very good
I still listen to the album once a week.
I remember the movie, but not the song. I was not aware there was a hit song associated with this movie. It's not the Scandal song, if that's what you're thinking.
@@spankynater4242 It's the song "In the City" by Joe Walsh. It plays at the end of the movie.
@@spankynater4242It wasn’t a hit. It was played on classic rock stations.
@@jamespohl-md2eq I looked it up, it was In The City. I had no idea that song was from the movie.
This is an annual watch for me, brings back memories of my childhood
lol mine too! Thought I was the only one 😂