Young, Violent, Dangerous (1976)

LIBERI ARMATI PERICOLOSI aka. YOUNG VIOLENT DANGEROUS of 1976 seemed promising to me for a variety of reasons.

In the days before those innocent acts of trolling each other on Facebook and revenge porning each other, the youth of yesterday were content simply to drive around Milan acting like jerks, robbing banks, and shooting innocent people in the face. This is their story.

YOUNG, VIOLENT, DANGEROUS is another dramatic slice of Italian crime action, obviously indebted to Bava's RABID DOGS but managing to carve out its own niche at the same time. The slim plotting allows for greater characterisation than usual and as a whole things hang together rather well.