Monday, May 11, 2015

Boardwalk (1979)


Atlantic Releasing Corporation
Directed by Stephen Verona
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, MVD Visual)

An elderly Jewish couple deals with the decline of their New Jersey neighborhood and a series of attacks perpetrated by a roving gang of teenagers. The family business is firebombed, their synagogue and house are ransacked and a neighbor's wife is attacked. When his wife becomes ill, he decides to take matters into his own hands when attacked while walking along the boardwalk. Dated by some bad 70s music and a plot that contains occasionally over-the-top audience manipulation, it nonetheless features good performances from Lee Strasberg and Ruth Gordon as the harassed couple who refuse to leave their lifetime home.

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