Defiance

Necta (1980)

Xvid

MP4

6.1

1,575

Action | Crime | Drama

USA | English | Color | 01:43

Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman and though he tries to avoid the gang and his neighbors, it does not work. Soon he is battling the Souls and not only changing their attitudes, but the attitudes of his previously intimidated neighbors as well.

Cast View all

	Jan-Michael Vincent	Tommy
	Theresa Saldana	Marsha
	Danny Aiello	Carmine
	Rudy Ramos	Angel Cruz
	Lenny Montana	Whacko
	Art Carney	Abe
	Santos Morales	Paolo
	Frank Pesce	Herbie
	Don Blakely	Abbie
	James Victor	Father Rivera
	Randy Hermann	Tito
	Lee Fraser	Bandana
	Joseph Campanella	Karenski
	Fernando López	Kid
	Alberto Vazquez	Slagg
	Church	Luis
	Ismael 'East' Carlo	El Bravo
	Tom Reese	1st Cop
	Ernie F. Orsatti	2nd Cop
	Tony Sirico	Davey
	E. Brian Dean	Rondini
	Margarita García	Cashier
	Philip Levy	Earnie
	Chino 'Fats' Williams	Local #2
	David Cadiente	Eloy

Crew View all

Director	John Flynn
Writer	Thomas Michael Donnelly, Mark Tulin
Producer	Samuel Z. Arkoff, Jerry Bruckheimer, Thomas Michael Donnelly, William S. Gilmore, Robert J. Wunsch
Musician	Dominic Frontiere
Photography	Ric Waite

Trailer

Edition details

Nr Discs	1

Personal

Owner	Jackmeats Flix
Location	Action Disk1
Purchased	Dec 10, 2020 at YTS
Quantity	1
Seen	Jun 08, 2021
Index	3361
Added Date	Dec 10, 2020 05:30:32
Modified Date

Notes

My quick rating - 5,4/10. Surely doesn't capture the "gang" culture from the 70s and 80s that "The Warriors" captured to a tee, but this one is still a decent watch. Jan-Michael Vincent stars as an out of work seaman who takes up temporary residence on the lower East Side of NYC. For those that have never seen what the city used to look like before it got cleaned up and modernized, this might be a big surprise to you. Anyway, his character crosses paths with the local gang that runs the neighborhood and the obvious ensues. Instead of being some quiet, bad ass killing machine as many of these movies tend to throw at you, we instead just have an everyday guy who just wants to keep to himself. Until he is pushed to far that is. The movie itself does take a more emotional approach to what is happening on the streets, and what the locals will need to do to take back their more harmonious way of life. For reference I checked a few reviews and this is a real love or hate movie. I strangely sit in the middle since I see the good but as I watched, I felt the bad. Too often scenes are wasted on things that don't seem to matter and other scenes that needed more push to get the cast going and united tend to be skipped over. Still, there were a few of these movies released around this time, and this was my first viewing of this one. I would say for the period, it is one of the better ones. BTW, anyone old enough will be interested to see Art Carney in any other role aside from Honeymooners re-runs as "NORTON"

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