Tuesday's Overlooked Films: 13 West Street Starring Alan Ladd

This 1962 juvenile delinquent/crime movie stars Alan Ladd, Rod Steiger, Michael Callan and Dolores Dorn. As with other films of this sub-genre, it feels a bit dated. However, I liked watching it, especially with Ladd and Steiger playing the main roles in it. Ladd's movie production company also made it. He plays an aerospace engineer who gets mugged and beat up by a gang of teenagers. Steiger is the L.A. juvenile sergeant who investigates the crime. The movie has a bit of the Charles Bronson vigilante feel to it when Ladd decides the cops aren't moving fast enough, especially after the gang threatens his wife (Dorn). The chief troublemaker (Callan) is a rich man's spoiled son who plays tennis at the country club and lives in a mansion with a swimming pool when he's not being a murderous young thug with his gang. Future soap opera star Jeanne Cooper (The Young and the Restless, 1973–2013) also plays a role, and Leigh Brackett wrote the script. IMDb.com rates 6.5/10, and that falls along the same lines I would give it.