Fantastic!

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The Wanderers is a really nice coming of age gang war movie that is mostly comedic but contains some commentary on race relations. The film had many cool actors. These were the ones that stood out for me - TONY GANIOS was really cool as the alpha male tough guy who always came to the gang's rescue. I'm surprised he did not become a big B-movie star. KAREN ALLEN looked gorgeous. JOHN FRIEDRICH is nearly as memorable as De Niro in Bang the Drum Slowly. A young LINDA MANZ makes quite an impression. Her role as the aggressive wannabe Peewee is almost like a precursor to her role as the murderous Cebe in OUT OF THE BLUE (1980). I also noticed KEN FOREE as one of the promoters of the football match.It is sort of a film of place. The chase scene at the beginning through the dark alleyways of New York with the jumps over the wire fences (might have inspired the chase scene in POINT BREAK), the garden-museum where Richie (KEN WAHL) and his girlfriend go to kiss, the bowling alley, the small apartments where the characters live. The film is full of these cool places (atleast from the viewers point of view).The film has eve teasing and groping scenes that would put most Bollywood movies to shame and make feminists convert to Islam. It is probably a bit long at 2 hours but its great entertainment.(7.5/10)

Oh well, I'm the type of guy who will never settle down Where pretty girls are well, you know that I'm around I kiss 'em and I love 'em 'cause to me they're all the same I hug 'em and I squeeze 'em they don't even know my nameThey call me the wanderer Yeah, the wanderer I roam around, around, aroundOh well, there's Flo on my left and there's Mary on my right And Janie is the girl with that I'll be with tonight And when she asks me, which one I love the best? I tear open my shirt I got Rosie on my chest'Cause I'm the wanderer Yeah, the wanderer I roam around, around, aroundOh well, I roam from town to town I go through life without a care And I'm as happy as a clown I with my two fists of iron and I'm going nowhereI'm the type of guy that likes to roam around I'm never in one place, I roam from town to town And when I find myself fallin' for some girl I hop right into that car of mine and ride around the worldYeah I'm the wanderer Yeah, the wanderer I roam around, around, aroundOh yeah, I'm the type of guy that likes to roam around I'm never in one place, I roam from town to town And when I find myself a-fallin' for some girl I hop right into that car of mine and drive around the worldYeah, 'cause I'm a wanderer Yeah, a wanderer I roam around, around, around'Cause I'm a wanderer Yeah, a wanderer I roam around, around, around'Cause I'm a wanderer Yeah, a wanderer

I first saw this movie at a drive in theater when I was in college back in the late 1970's.I liked it but didn't think much about it for a long time. Recently I caught it again and realized what a thoroughly good movie it was.Never mind the setting or time period. If you ever felt any teen-age angst, or if you ever felt a part of anything bigger than you, this is a movie that you can relate to.The soundtrack is good if you like early 1960's music. But to me this was incidental.Powerful performances propel this movie, although the ending is a bit strange. All of the acting is A-1 in my book.

The Wanderers, an Italian street gang in the Bronx 1963, preparing for a rumble with rival gang the Del-Bombers, try to enlist other gangs to help their cause. However, as the times are a changing, The Wanderers and all the other gangs of the city must come to terms with pending adulthood, and, the ending of an era.Directed by Phillip Kaufman, this adaptation of Richard Price's novel stands up as one of the best pictures to deal with gang culture. Laced with crackling adolescent humour, and sublimely sound tracked, The Wanderers triumphs better than most because it captures the time frame perfectly. Encompassing the killing of JFK, and subtly showing (during an hilarious sequence) the enlisting of ignorant youths into the Marines, to be carted off to Vietnam no doubt, The Wanderers has far more to offer than merely angst and high school jinx. The cast are surprisingly strong, Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, Tony Ganios and Erland van Lidth all shine in their respective roles, whilst Kaufman directs with a knowing sense of purpose of the thematics to hand. All of which culminates in a quite eerie final third as the deadly Ducky Boys enter the fray. Not quite as serious as The Warriors, which was released the same year, it's a film that much like this one now feels part of my teen education. The Wanderers is however the smarter picture of the two in terms of substance. The coming together at the finale, the racial harmony bursting out from the screen, is and always should be eternally embraced.All together now, "I'm the type of guy who will never settle down" 8/10