Young, Violent, Dangerous – Cineploit (Blu-ray)

Theatrical Release Date: Italy, 1976
Director: Romolo Guerrieri
Writer: Fernando Di Leo
Cast: Eleonora Giorgi, Tomas Milian, Stefano Patrizi, Benjamin Lev, Max Delys, Venantino Venantini, Salvatore Billa, Antonio Guidi, Diego Abatantuono

Release Date: June 28th, 2019
Approximate Running Time: 96 Minutes 52 seconds
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Widescreen / 1080 Progressive / MPEG-4 AVCC
Rating: NR
Sound: DTS-HD Mono Italian, DTS-HD Mono English, DTS-HD Mono German
Subtitles: English, German
Region Coding: Region Free
Retail Price: 24,90 EUR

"Mario, Luis and Gio are a low-key trio who`s motive to rob a gas station might refer to their adolescent cockiness. Four people die. Mario and Gio, inebriated of their action, feeling mighty and invincible, Luis tries to convince both, without avail , to stop them from further killings. As much as he tries Mario and Gio even get deadlier and more extreme. On the getaway from their last crime scene they decide to rob a bank. But money isn’t the reason, attention is what they want and need. After further killings their way of violence leads them to the Peripherie of Milano. Policeblocks get avoided and the hunt for these youngsters gets expanded by K 9 Units and helicopters but there`s no end in sight with their killing spree….." - synopsis provided by the distributor

Video: 4/5

Here’s the information provided about this release's transfer, "English 2K Blu-Ray Premiere".

Young, Violent, Dangerous comes on a 25 GB single layer Blu-ray.

Disc Size: 22.7 GB

Feature: 19.4 GB

The source used for this transfer is in excellent shape, colors look correct, image clarity and balack levels look strong throughout. This transfer is a massive upgrade, when compared to this film’s previous home video releases.

Audio: 4/5

This release comes with three audio options, a DTS-HD mono mix in English, a DTS-HD mono mix in Italian and a DTS-HD mono mix in German.The English and Italian audio mixes are in great shape, dialog comes through clearly, everything sounds balanced and ambient sounds are well-represented. Range wise the Italian language track sounds more robust then the English language track. This release comes with two subtitle options, English and German and the English subtitles are for the Italian language track. Though subtitles are removable, you can only disable them via the setup menu.

Extras:

Extras for this release include three image galleries: advertising (14 images - posters), releases (4 images - home video art) and on the set (10 images - stills), an option to listen to Gianfranco Plenizio and Enrico Pieranunzi’s nineteen song score (45 minutes 34 seconds, Dolby Digital stereo, you can listen to each track separately or play all), a featurette with director Romolo Guerrieri, script supervisor Silvia Petroni and actress Eleonora Giorgi (15 minutes 54 seconds, Dolby Digital stereo Italian with removable English and German subtitles), a double-sided Poster with Italian promo artwork and a media book packaging that contains a twenty-eight-page booklet with bio for director Romolo Guerrieri (text in German), an essay about the film written by Michael Cholewa (text in German), bio’s for actors Stefano Patrizi, Eleonora Giorgi, Benjamin Lev, Max Delys, director Romolo Guerrieri, cinematographer Erico Menczer (text in German), Live Fast Die Young an interview with Romolo Guerrieri by Eugenio Ercolani (Text in English), a bio for composer Gianfranco Plenizio (Text in German and English) and images from the film (lobby cards/posters).

Also, this release also comes with multilingual menus, English and German.

Summary:

Content wise, though Young, Violent, Dangerous bears many of the elements that one would expect from the Poliziotteschi film. The result is far from being an atypical example of the genre. And while crime is one of the main focal points in this film’s narrative. The crimes being committed by this film’s three protagonists are merely props to further move the narrative forward and drive home this film’s message, ‘Youth’s gone wild due to lack of parental guidance’.

Tone wise, there is a relentless ferocity that is quickly established that does not let up, even for a millisecond. And in a film that features many disturbing moments, the one scenes that stands out more than any other. Is a scene that involves a young woman, who’s tied up by the three jaded young men and left that way until she’s discovered by the police.

There is a predictability to the events which unfold, even though there appears to no rhyme or reason for why these three angry youths are choosing their victims and their crimes. Thankfully this minor short coming does not prove to be that crucial, since the film’s brisk pacing ensues that there is never a dull moment.

The trio of actors who portray jaded young men are all very good in their respective roles, especially Stefano Patrizi (Conversation Piece, Murder Obsession) Mario Farra, the ringer leader of this trio. Another performance of note is Eleonora Giorgi (Inferno) in the role of this main female character. The one performance that is most lacking is Tomas Milian (Almost Human, The Tough Ones) in the role of the police Commissioner.

Young, Violent, Dangerous makes its way to Blu-ray via a solid audio/video presentation from Cineploit that comes with an insightful featurette, highly recommended.

Written by Michael Den Boer