THE WARRIORS opens. Directed by Walter Hill. Written by Hill and David Shaber, from the novel by Sol Yurick. Superbly crafted, contemporized riff on the ancient Greek Anabias epic stars Michael Beck as the de facto leader of a framed-for-murder NYC street gang plunged into desperate, all-night, Spartan-like against-the-odds, cross-city battle to reach the sanctuary of their Coney Island home turf. A cult classic.