The Warriors (1979) The Warriors (1979)

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Director: Walter Hill. Adapted (loosely) from Sol Yurick's 1965 novel, itself a transposition of Xenophon's Anabasis — the Greek 10,000's long march through hostile Persia toward the sea.

Premise

A Coney Island street gang travels north to the Bronx for a meeting of every gang in New York City, called by Cyrus, the leader of the Gramercy Riffs. Cyrus is shot mid-speech by Luther of the Rogues, a small-time gang. Luther frames the Warriors. Their leader Cleon is mobbed by the Riffs in the chaos. The eight surviving Warriors must travel from the Bronx to Coney Island in a single night while every gang in the city — and the police — hunt them.

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