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Watch: The Wanderers 1979 123movies, Full Movie Online – The Bronx, 1963. With the radio stations playing The Four Seasons, Lee Dorsey, The Angels, and Ben E. King, Richie Gennaro and The Wanderers, a band of Italian-American greasers, meander through the city’s streets, fall in love, and get into trouble. However, graduation day is fast approaching, and whether the Wanderers like it or not, violence is the only way to resolve differences at school and the street. But do the reckless Wanderers know that their carefree days as a gang are numbered?.
Plot: The streets of the Bronx are owned by ’60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
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	7.3/10 Votes: 11,490
	89% | RottenTomatoes
	64/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 149 Popularity: 12.009 | TMDB

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Rumble in the Bronx.
The Wanderers, an Italian street gang in the Bronx 1963, preparing for a rumble with rival gang the Del-Bombers, try to enlist other gangs to help their cause. However, as the times are a changing, The Wanderers and all the other gangs of the city must come to terms with pending adulthood, and, the ending of an era.

Directed by Phillip Kaufman, this adaptation of Richard Price’s novel stands up as one of the best pictures to deal with gang culture. Laced with crackling adolescent humour, and sublimely sound tracked, The Wanderers triumphs better than most because it captures the time frame perfectly. Encompassing the killing of JFK, and subtly showing (during an hilarious sequence) the enlisting of ignorant youths into the Marines, to be carted off to Vietnam no doubt, The Wanderers has far more to offer than merely angst and high school jinx. The cast are surprisingly strong, Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, Tony Ganios and Erland van Lidth all shine in their respective roles, whilst Kaufman directs with a knowing sense of purpose of the thematics to hand. All of which culminates in a quite eerie final third as the deadly Ducky Boys enter the fray. Not quite as serious as The Warriors, which was released the same year, it’s a film that much like this one now feels part of my teen education. The Wanderers is however the smarter picture of the two in terms of substance. The coming together at the finale, the racial harmony bursting out from the screen, is and always should be eternally embraced.

All together now, “I’m the type of guy who will never settle down” 8/10

They Call Me The Wanderer.
1979 had 2 great “gang” films out, The Warriors, and The Wanderers, but while The Warriors was pretty much all about the gang warfare, the Wanderers was actually a lot deeper, (not that the warriors isn’t a great film, it is,) and expands on friendships, gangs, gang rivalries, racism (imagine that classroom scene appearing in a movie today?) Girls, and general coming of age stuff young lads go through.

Set in early 1960s New York, in the multiracial and multiethnic Bronx, to a fantastic soundtrack, the classic old songs go down a treat here, and from the opening scene of the Fordham Baldies strutting down the street to The Four Season’s “Walk Like A Man” this sets the tone of the movie for me.

Aside from the great soundtrack, the film has plenty else to offer particularly the characters, we get to know the Wanderers, an Italian American gang of close knit friends, mainly dealing with Richie and Joey, as well as Turkey, a fellow Wanderer who has aspirations to join The Fordham Baldies, plus the arrival of Perry, an out of towner recently moved to New York, who steps in to save the Wanderers from a sticky situation and therefore becomes their newest member, welcomed with open arms, adds to their confidence.

Speaking of the Fordham Baldies, they are one of the most feared gangs of the Bronx, led by the huge Terror, the Wanderers have trouble with this gang, and are saved from a vicious beating by newcomer Perry, who subsequently joins the Wanderers.

Other notable gangs include the Del Bombers, the toughest of the black gangs, led by the charismatic Clinton Stitch, The Wongs, a Chinese gang, and the mysterious Irish-American gang, The Ducky Boys.

As you may imagine, their is trouble ahead with these gangs, some of whom are not always enemies, and the conclusion of the film was very satisfying for me, and includes a great battle near the films climax.

This film deals with so much here, set in the early 60s, this film deals with many social changes coming from the late 50s/early 60s into the gradual transformation to the swinging 60s (See Richie turning his back on a young Bob Dylan in the folk club singing “The Times They-Are A Changing” and returning to the old songs he’s used to), as well as the JFK assassination, and the Marines actively recruiting (Vietnam war) young men, I cannot understand why this film is not held in higher regard, as for me this is up there with the likes of American Graffiti and Stand By Me as one of the all time Great coming of age movies.

Excellent film, must see.

9.5/10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 52 min (112 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 23000000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
Director Philip Kaufman
Writer Richard Price, Rose Kaufman, Philip Kaufman
Actors Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, John Friedrich
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Lenses and Panaflex Camera by Panavision
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5247)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm