The Young Savages (1961) Reviews & Ratings

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The Young Savages reviews

The Young Savages holds a 6.5/10 average from 44 TMDB ratings.

Burt Lancaster turns in quite a considered performance here as the assistant DA charged with prosecuting three lads for the murder of a blind fifteen year old boy who was sitting on the steps outside his home. There's no jeopardy as to the crime, nor to it's perpetrators - we all see that at the start, but what does now ensue is a reasonable foray into the psychology of urban living in a city rise with racism, bigot…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.

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