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The Amboy Dukes is a 1947 novel by Irving Shulman, his first. The novel concerns the misadventures of a 1940s Jewish street gang of young toughs based on Amboy Street in the working class Brownsville section of Brooklyn (Brownsville, from its founding into the 1950s, was a primarily Jewish neighborhood). [ 1 ]
City Across the River is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Maxwell Shane and starring Peter Fernandez, Stephen McNally, Thelma Ritter, Sue England, Barbara Whiting, Luis Van Rooten and Jeff Corey. The screenplay is based on the novel The Amboy Dukes by Irving Shulman. [3]
Irving Shulman (May 21, 1913 – March 23, 1995) was an American author and screenwriter whose works were adapted into movies. His books included The Amboy Dukes, Cry Tough, The Square Trap, and Platinum High School, all of which were adapted into movies. Shulman wrote the early film treatment for Rebel Without a Cause.
Shane scripted City Across the River, the 1949 film of Irving Shulman's The Amboy Dukes, and directed 1955's The Naked Street, starring Anthony Quinn and Anne Bancroft. In 1960, he became a writer-producer for the Boris Karloff anthology television series Thriller .
Ted Nugent, the nucleus of the Amboy Dukes, was born and raised in Detroit and started performing in 1958 at age 10.He played in a group called the Royal High Boys from 1960 to 1962 and later in group named the Lourds, where he first met future Amboy Dukes lead vocalist John Drake.
The Amboy Dukes may refer to: The Amboy Dukes (novel) , 1947 American novel about juvenile delinquents The Amboy Dukes (band) , American rock band founded 1964
Rusty Day (born Russell Edward Davidson; December 29, 1945 – June 3, 1982) was an American rock singer, [1] best known for his work with Cactus, the Amboy Dukes, and Steve Gaines. Career with the Amboy Dukes
Movie Movie is a 1978 American double bill directed by Stanley Donen. It consists of two films: Dynamite Hands , a boxing ring morality play , and Baxter's Beauties of 1933 , a musical comedy, both starring the husband-and-wife team of George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere .