Two characters that beat Saxon up at the beginning are worth watching it just by themselves. I saw it on TCM so I am not going to complain. Its kind of low-budget; at the end when Saxon is running from the cops he jumps from building to building and you can see them shake. It is pretty depressing movie and the depiction of the whole family living in a small apartment is realistic. For example it is so crowded that when Saxon gets out of prison and returns home he has to share his father's bed. I wouldn't go out of my way to see it but it has value if only as a museum piece. I have to commend TCM for showing stuff like this because it is about the only channel on cable that shows stuff that isn't the latest junk. This movie came out around the time of West Side Story when a lot of movies about gangs in New York running around with switchblades terrorizing people. They seem almost quaint compared with what is happening today. Apparently everyone was worried about Puerto Ricans. But when I was a little kid the stuff gave me nightmares. I never saw the movies but I remember the exploitation ads they would run or the previews. After this one they had one called The Young Savages with Burt Lancaster dealing with same subject matter.
