Youngblood (1978 film)

Youngblood
Directed by Noel Nosseck
Produced by Nick Grillo
Alan Riche
Written by Paul Carter Harrison
Starring Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Bryan O'Dell
Ren Woods
Music by War
Cinematography Robbie Greenberg
Edited by Frank Morriss
Distributed by American International Pictures
Release date
May 24, 1978 (1978-05-24)
Running time
90 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Youngblood is a 1978 American film released by American International Pictures. It starred Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and featured Bryan O'Dell in the title role. Ren Woods had a prominent supporting role. The soundtrack to the film was written and performed by War.

Plot

Michael (O'Dell) is an African-American teenager in South-Central Los Angeles, being raised by a single mother and beginning to drift away from school. Before long, Michael is running with a tough local street gang, the Kingsmen, who christen him with the nickname "Youngblood". Michael greatly looks up to the gang's leader, Rommel (Hilton-Jacobs), an angry Vietnam War veteran who is beginning to accept the fact that he's getting to be too old to be involved in the street gang lifestyle.

Shortly after Michael joins the Kingsmen, they move from merely battling other similar street gangs to becoming involved in a full-scale war against a local cartel of drug dealers. And, unknown to Michael and the Kingsmen, the head of the organization is Michael's own older brother.


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