Kitty Genovese Killing Is Retold in the Film ‘37’
Walking her dog through a sun-roasted film set in Queens last Monday, Lois Gillman said she couldn’t believe it at first when she heard about the movie being made, just around the corner from her house.
“This story had the greatest impact on me as child,” she whispered during a break in filming, adding, “The whole thing was so horrifying.”
The movie being shot — “37” — won’t be a horror film. But its story has been haunting New Yorkers for more than 50 years: In the early hours of March 13, 1964, the 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was stabbed and sexually assaulted while her neighbors allegedly listened. And watched from their windows. Or closed their drapes. Or turned up the radio to drown out the screams.
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The neighbors "allegedly" did nothing?
I always wondered if this was really true...given the track record of hyperbole and dishonestly I've seen from the press over the years.
I DON’T WANT TO GET INVOLVED.........................
I remember the event very well. It was front page news even in small town Texas.
This is why when you are helping someone you never say “somebody call an ambulance!” You point at one person and say “you - what is YOUR name?” When they answer, you repeat it to all and give them specific instructions to (in my most recent case go forward to the first car to stop the train,) call an ambulance, etc. The Genovese tragedy has helped us understand group (mob) psychology and has saved many lives.
I was a kid, but Mom always listened to Paul Harvey, and I recall his telling of this story from that time.
It was/is difficult to understand the apathy and cowardice.
Never happened in my neighborhood, when we heard a hue and cry every window would open up and everyone would start screaming, and men would be on the sidewalk giving chase.
If Michael Potts is portraying her killer Winston Moseley, he’s too dark-skinned. Moseley is light-skinned. He was an administrative building porter when I was an officer at Auburn in the early 80’s. Back then he wore his hair in an unruly afro. I could never understand how he got such a cushy job since he’d previously escaped from Attica during an emergency trip to the outside hospital. He was eventually recaptured, but during his escape he had taken 2-3 people hostage, and raped the man’s wife. And that same woman came regularly to visit him at the prison.
Typical ghetto behavior of “Don’t Snitch.” Still happening today.
Can’t believe that POS is still alive. Too bad Kitty didn’t carry a gun or knife with her.
It’s interesting, I was just talking about this YESTERDAY with my 2^ boss. He was saying that today, people are even LESS inclined to get involved, and instead whip out their cell phones to record the action for YouTube/Internet fame.
Either way, horrible horrible little people.
Should make one about the recent killing where a group of people just watched a man get stabbed to death on the DC Metro.
Wow.
All I had to see was “Haunted New Yorkers since 64...” and I knew it was the Kitty Genovese story.
Guess I’m old... and a New Yorker at heart...
Sad.