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Walter Hill's 1979 cult classic 'The Warriors' has far outlasted other, perhaps more competently-assembled motion pictures, and in two instances transcended the medium itself with pop-culture mainstream callbacks 'CAN YOU DIG IT?' and 'Warriors....come out to play-ayyyy' (insert creepy sound of clinking bottles).  In this episode, frequent FCAC guest Richard Brown joins Jason to discuss the rich backstory of the making-of 'The Warriors', including its origin in a counter-culture Socialist novel of the 60's, the firing of the leading man seven weeks into the film's nighttime NYC shoot, and the controversy that supposedly engulfed Paramount when violence erupted in a few theaters where the film was screening in 1979.  All this against a backdrop of social decay and unrest in NYC during the summer of 1978, and the filming of another NYC gang picture, 'The Wanderers', based on Richard Price's novel of the same name, but set 15 years behind 'The Warriors' and attempting to cover very different ground.