Youngblood (1978 film)

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| name = Youngblood

| image = Youngblood (1978 film).jpg

| caption =

| director = Noel Nosseck

| producer = Nick Grillo
Alan Riche

| writer = Paul Carter Harrison

| narrator =

| starring = Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Bryan O'Dell
Ren Woods

| music = War

| cinematography = Robbie Greenberg

| editing = Frank Morriss

| distributor = American International Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1978|5|24}}

| runtime = 104 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =$1 million{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/americanfilmdist0000dona/page/301/mode/1up|title= American film distribution : the changing marketplace|last=Donahue|first= Suzanne Mary|year=1987 |publisher=UMI Research Press |page=301|isbn= 9780835717762}} Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada

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Youngblood is a 1978 American film directed by Noel Nosseck. It stars Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and features Bryan O'Dell in the title role. Ren Woods has a prominent supporting role. It was released by American International Pictures. The soundtrack to the film was written and performed by War.

Plot

Michael (O'Dell) is an African-American teenager in South-Central Los Angeles, being raised by a single mother and beginning to drift away from school. Before long, Michael is running with a tough local street gang, the Kingsmen, who christen him with the nickname "Youngblood". Michael greatly looks up to the gang's leader, Rommel (Hilton-Jacobs), an angry Vietnam War veteran who is beginning to accept the fact that he's getting to be too old to be involved in the street gang lifestyle.

Shortly after Michael joins the Kingsmen, they move from merely battling other similar street gangs to becoming involved in a full-scale war against a local cartel of drug dealers. And, unknown to Michael and the Kingsmen, the head of the organization is Michael's own older brother.