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To: Borges
the gang dialogue and slang that was cringe inducing five minutes after the 1961 film came out

....and you would know this how?
I'm two years older than your mother and I was 16 when the movie was released.
IMO, this statement, like many you have made about the original AND the recent remake, sound just like the recent words of published reviewers

123 posted on 12/27/2021 6:33:39 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets........Now, we are them.)
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To: Roccus

People were saying that at the time weren’t they? I know Pauline Kael was. Did gangs ever really use phrases like “Daddy-O” and “Cut the frabbajabba”? :)


125 posted on 12/27/2021 8:10:04 AM PST by Borges
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