Okay DU Movie Buffs, need your brainpower . . .

[ET Awful]

I'm trying to remember the name of a movie, I think it came out in the early 80's. I don't remember who was in it, I just remember that the opening scene involved a gang getting ready to rumble, and one of them broke the antenna off a car. They went onto a basketball court, started a fight, and the guy with the antenna stabbed somebody with it (I think).

If I remember correctly they arrested the wrong guy for the murder, and the movie was about defending the wrongly arrested guy. Once again, I'm not too clear on the rest of the movie.

I just remember the fight scene on the basketball court fairly clearly.

Any ideas what the movie was?

[mcscajun]

1. If you can recall the name of even one actor, that'll be a help...

maybe?

[ET Awful]

2. Sorry, can't remember anything else.

I just think of the movie every once in a while, and have never been able to remember what it was.

I originally saw it on HBO when HBO was still in its infancy.

I just figure that any movie that stuck with me that long deserves a re-watching, I just can't for the life of me remember what it was called :)

[lenidog]

3. I think we are going to need more than brainpower

With that sketchy description we are going to need a Christmas miracle to come up with the title. Keep thinking about it I am a movie buff and if you can come up with a little more detail I am looking forward to the challenge. If you can remember any other details it would be helpful. Anything at all even the genre like if it was a mob movie or a gang movie something like that.

[ET Awful]

4. The fight at the beginning, if I remember correctly, was a New York

City basketball court, a Puerto Rican gang was pissed at some other group (a bunch of white guys maybe) that had started using "their" basketball court. It was like a typical "turf" war type thing.

It was a teenage gang type thing, back when they still portrayed teenage gangs as leather-jacketed hoods with hair grease.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. West Side Story, LOL.

[ET Awful]

21. I knew somebody would say that :)

I don't remember any dancing in this movie though :)

[Inland]

5. So why are you trying to remember this forgettable movie? nt

[ET Awful]

8. Because for the past 20 years or so, once or twice a year, for no apparent

reason, my mind just flashes on that scene on the basketball court, and their walk up to the court (while talking shit about whoever it was they were getting ready to fight).

Since I only think of it once in a while, I've never tried that hard to find it. BUT, now that I have DU around, and people tend to find answers to vague and obscure questions on DU, I thought maybe somebody would have an idea :)

I'm just tryin' to get thus multi-year brain-bug exterminated :)

[mcscajun]

10. Taking a wild guess...

Is it perhaps "Boulevard Nights" (1979)

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0078898/

[ET Awful]

13. Possible, but doesn't sound quite right. Too bad it's not available

on DVD so I can check for sure.

[jonnyblitz]

6. "the warriors" from 1979 maybe?

here is an amazon.com listing of it:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000541AM/qid=/sr=/ref=cm_lm_asin/104-9630379-0133541?v=glance

[ET Awful]

7. Nope, not it. Thanks though. n/t

[Orsino]

9. "It was Citizen Kane!"

http://university.imdb.com/title/tt0303532/quotes

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. "The Outsiders" or "Rumble Fish" perhaps? Who was in it?

http://www.imdb.com

[ET Awful]

12. Nope, those were both S. E. Hinton novel adaptations, and

were much more rural.

[rug]

14. Boy, you're fussy

[AlCzervik]

15. Do you remember anyone who was in it? Even a bit player?

[ET Awful]

17. It's been over 20 years :)

So . . . no :( Pathetic, I know.

[AlCzervik]

18. i tried google with no luck, sorry

[ET Awful]

20. So did I. Thanks for trying though :)

Ah well, I'll probably just happen across it one day like I have with other movies I tried to remember.

[GCP]

19. How about Bad Boys with Sean Penn?

That would be a movie with a gang fight

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. So was it a prison/courtroom drama or a gang movie primarily?

[ET Awful]

23. Prison/courtroom as I recall.

The gang fight was just the opening and laid the foundation for the rest of the story.

[Devil Dog Dem]

24. I remember it. It was a racial comment that started the fight.

Two white girls dropped the the S bomb when some Hispanics were making cat calls at them.

Sorry I don't remember the title though.

[ET Awful]

25. Sounds about right . . . the guys were looking for a fight anyway

but the catcalls just set it off and gave 'em an excuse if I remember right.

Oh well, at least somebody else remembers the movie :)

[Devil Dog Dem]

27. Yep. That sounds right.

If I remember correctly, one of the characters was in prison for a long time (like 20 years, maybe?). Maybe even on Death Row, and the movie was about his appeals. Does that sound right?

[ET Awful]

28. Yes.

The guy that was stabbed was trying to climb over a chainlink fence to get away, and the guy that killed him yanked him back down off the fence if I recall correctly.

[Devil Dog Dem]

29. That's right. Any luck on naming the movie?

Now you've got me going!

[jdots]

26. Bambi 3 the Rumbel in the Forest ?

Disney movies have changed haven't they ?