Savage Streets (1984) on Netflix
Brenda and her friends, the Satins, prank a drug-dealing street gang, the Scars. The gang retaliates by assaulting Brenda's deaf-mute younger sister Heather, and Brenda wants payback.
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Plot summary
On Hollywood Boulevard, high school student Brenda leads the Satins, her group of friends: Rachel, Stella, Francine Ramirez, Stevie and Maria. Brenda's younger sister Heather, who is deaf and mute, comes along, and Brenda watches over her closely since their father died. A convertible driven by Jake, a member of the drug-dealing gang the Scars, nearly knocks the girls down at a street corner and sends Heather to the pavement. The girls take the car, fill it with garbage and leave it in the street. Jake follows the Satins to their high school, wins Heather's trust, and his associates beat and assault her. Brenda takes up her own pursuit of the gang.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Savage Streets (1984)
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- Danny Steinmann was hired to direct Savage Streets the day before filming began, after producer Billy Fine fired the director; Steinmann was then working on a Playboy Television miniseries starring Britt Ekland. The picture Fine was producing with Linda Blair was to start the next day.
- Filming on Savage Streets was shut down about two weeks in over funding issues, and director Danny Steinmann alleged that producer Billy Fine's original financing had come from mobsters. After Fine left the project, producer John Strong came aboard and shooting resumed.
- Cherie Currie was originally cast as Brenda but was replaced by Linda Blair, who had appeared in Billy Fine's Chained Heat (1983) and did not want to make another exploitation film; the box-office success of Chained Heat and a profit participation deal with Fine persuaded her to star.
- Australia banned Savage Streets for excessive violence, and the British Board of Film Classification rejected its original 93-minute cut, approving only a highly edited 80-minute version.
- Bryanston Film Distributors, which bought the rights to Savage Streets in 2007, sued The Cinefamily in 2013 after the group advertised and sold tickets to late-night screenings of the film that Bryanston had not authorized.
- The film's theme song, "Justice for One", performed by John Farnham, was never officially released to the public; it survives only on rare promos sent to DJs around the time of the film's release.
- Savage Streets has developed a cult following and is shown at horror and exploitation film revival screenings, including at the New Beverly Cinema in 2008 and the American Cinematheque in 2016.
