- The Sandpit Generals
The Sandpit Generals (The Defiant, The Wild Pack) is a movie created in 1971 by
Hall Bartlett . Its plot is based on the novel byJorge Amado . Melodious soundtracks were written byDorival Caymmi .The movie features a street gang of poor homeless youth struggling for existence in
Brazil . After letting a girl with her little brother settle in their beach shelter, the gang's inner spirit is gradually reformed. She brought a sense of love and family into their shabby abode. One of the localpriest s helps the gang at the cost of his clergy career. Police captured the main characters and after their lengthy stay in prison, the girl is terminally ill. Her sudden death is a culmination of the movie, it urges the gang to fight for their rights against the government.The movie was not popular in the United States due to its socialist context, but became an iconic movie in the Soviet Union, where it won the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival. [cite book |title=Contemporary Hollywood's Negative Hispanic Image |last=Richard |first=Alfred Charles |year=1994 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=9780313288418 |pages=p. 214 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=J15ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%2B%22The+Sandpit+Generals%22+%2BBartlett+%2Bmoscow&dq=%2B%22The+Sandpit+Generals%22+%2BBartlett+%2Bmoscow&num=100&pgis=1 |accessdate=2008-10-03] In Russia the film is known as "Генералы песчаных карьеров".
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