I had seen this years ago on something called "The Movie Greats Network", a syndicated thing showing really awful movies they paid almost nothing for.
At the time, I thought Young, Violent, Dangerous was terrible. I kept watching, distracted by the dubbing. They did a pretty good job. It sounded dubbed, but they had the lip sync down.
The movie starts with a girl reporting her boyfriend to the police. He and his friends were planning a robbery armed with toy guns. She didn't want him going to prison for anything that stupid. Police stake out the gas station they're going to rob. They apparently tell the owner they were going to have toy guns so he refuses to hand over the money. The guns turn out to be real. The owner is shot and the three of them shoot their way out when police move in. The race away in their stolen Fiat.
They pick up submachine guns from their gun source and rob a grocery store.
One guy keeps laughing and acting crazy and obnoxious. I kept wishing they'd shoot him. Made me think of the 1949 juvenile delinquency movie City Across the River. One member of the gang in that movie is nicknamed "Crazy". In his first scene he was flapping his arms saying, "Look, fellas! Look! I'm a boid! I'm a boid!" In Young, Violent, Dangerous, the boys stop and look at a TV playing in the window of an appliance store and he starts imitating a surfer on TV. Later, he throws handfuls of money out the window of the car.
It wasn't as bad as I remembered. It was unmarred by the "three act structure", was made up of a series of sequences. The gas station robbery, followed by a sex scene at a gun dealers house, followed by a grocery store robbery, followed by some other sequences.
In one scene, the Italian detective berated the boys' petit-bourgeois parents. Their sons were in college but he thought they were negligent for not knowing where they were at all times. Maybe Italian children mature slower.
Free on Tubi.
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