The Young Savages [SEP] director
The Young Savages
The Young Savages is a 1961 American crime drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt Lancaster. It was written by Edward Anhalt from a novel by Evan Hunter. The supporting cast includes Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters, and Edward Andrews, and "The Young Savages" was the first film featuring Telly Savalas, who plays a police detective, foreshadowing his later role as "Kojak". Often categorized as a "thinking man's movie", it has received mixed reviews.
Plot.
according to Jerry Bloom's unauthorized biography of Ritchie Blackmore, the chord progression and melody were first written by a guy called Bill Parkinson and named "Lost Soul". The song was conceived as a drum solo for Carlo Little (Rolling Stones' original drummer), who like Blackmore had played with The Savages, the backing band for Screaming Lord Sutch. Simper said Blackmore learned the melody "note for note" from Little. Bill Parkinson was lead guitarist with the Savages Jul-Sep 1966, while Blackmore had played with