Monday, October 9, 2023

13 West Street (1962)


Alan Ladd as a rocket scientist. He's attacked one night by a group of bourgeois juvenile delinquents driving a pretty good car. They check his ID as he lies unconscious and they begin threatening him and his wife. 

Rod Steiger as a police sergeant trying to find the assailants. 

Alan Ladd's penultimate film. He was forty-eight and hadn't aged well, poor devil. Although, in fairness, the "teenagers" were no spring chickens either.

Ladd put more effort than most people would have into finding the hooligans who attacked him, and the kids stayed fixated on him as well. Since they were obviously rich, they could have given Ladd the added motivation of wanting to sue the crap out of their parents.

With Bernie Hamilton in a small role.

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