Just Added! Actor Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs will join us IN PERSON, schedule permitting, for a Q&A between his films Youngblood and Cooley High at our Wednesday, July 19th double feature.
Bryan O’Dell star as Michael “Youngblood” Gordon in the 1978 American International Pictures release Youngblood. Michael drops out of school and joins his friend Bummie in the tough, local street gang the Kingsmen. The Kingsmen are a group of young African-Americans led by Vietnam vet Rommel, played by Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (Cooley High). They had been concerning themselves with fighting other rival gangs, but now decide to take on big time drug dealers to try to get dope out of the hood. The battles are bloody and violent, and it’s a huge question who will win and survive to the end of the picture, the good guy gang members or the bad guy drug pushers. With a score by the funk band War, Youngblood tells the story of one young man’s life in the ghetto, sometimes raw and brutal, but also filled with brotherhood, loyalty and love.
Marc Edward Heuck discusses Youngblood on the New Beverly blog.
