Petey & Johnny

1961, 53:24

Credits

Robert Drew

Executive Producer

Richard Leacock

Producer

James Lipscomb

Filmmaker

Abbot Mills

Filmmaker

Bill Ray

Filmmaker

Patricia Isaacs

Assistant

Peter Powell

Assistant

Patricia Jaffe

Editor

Patricia Powell

Editor

Piri Thomas

Narrator

Time - Life Broadcast

Co-Producer

Awards

1962 Outstanding Film London Film Festival

Reviews/Media

"a unique and completely authentic inside look at the workings of a teenage gang in Spanish Harlem"

Michael Frank, Solters, O'Rourke, & Sabinson, inc.

"one of the most shocking documentaries ever seen on television"

California Eagle

Petey, a reformed Harlem hood, tries to rehabilitate juvenile gangs and is particularly challenged by a boy named Johnny, who must decide whether to relinquish his role as gang leader and go straight or to continue his present inevitable course to the penitentiary.

 

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