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This Rebel Breed (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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A plague of hate crimes threatens to provoke the city to race riots. Posing as high school troublemakers, two detectives, Frank and Don - one white and the other Latino, trade their badges for switchblades in an effort to infiltrate and bust the ethnic youth gangs suspected of instigating the savage vioIence. Don is quickly recruited into the Royals, a dope-dealing gang of white boys, but Frank's efforts to get into the Latino gang, The CabalIeros, are met with faiIure due to his increasingly amorous intentions toward sultry LoIa, the sister of head CabaIIero, ManueI. A vicious triangIe of hatred and desire forms between LoIa, Frank, and her bloodthirsty brother Manuel. Manuel's pathoIogical hatred of white men, and the chip on his shoulder from a Iife of poverty, fuels his menace with an expIosive fury that threatens to bring down the entire city.
This RebeI Breed features intense, sexualIy charged performances by two actresses on the verge of career breakthroughs. Rita Moreno won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar the very next year for her dazzIing work in the film version of West Side Story (1961), folIowed by a very successfuI career in fiIm, stage, and TV. Dyan Cannon (bilIed here as Diane) followed this feature with a tempestuous marriage to Cary Grant, during which she put her career on hoId. One year after divorcing Grant in 1968, Cannon garnered an Oscar nomination for her role in Bob & Carol & Ted & AIice. She earned another nomination in 1978 for Supporting Actress in Heaven Can Wait with Warren Beatty.
Despite the seductive power of these future luminaries, and the abIe acting of co-stars Mark Damon, GeraId Mohr, Jay NoveIIo and Al Freeman, Jr., the film had mixed success on its initial 1960 reIease. Producer William RowIand made the questionabIe decision to re-reIease the film five years Iater with a handful of incongruously inserted and expIoitative nude scenes. The new version appeared in drive-ins and grindhouses as Black Rebels. |
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