September 25, 2015 8:30 AM EDT
I t’s been nearly four decades since the cast of The Warriors rode the subway home to Coney Island, and this month, the actors—now a bit longer in the tooth—relived the journey to attend a fan event on their home turf.
The film’s stars, Michael Beck, David Harris, Terry Michos, Thomas G. Waites and Dorsey Wright reunited to ride the Q train as their characters did in their struggle to get back to the neighborhood, Rolling Stone reports . “These subways are different than they were in 1978,” said Beck.
Though the violent film was controversial when it was first released in ’79, it went on to become a cult classic. People at the fan event told the cast that the film even prompted them to start their own Warriors “gang,” though it’s more like a youth group to keep kids out of real gang violence. As for the actors, they don’t look like they could do quite as much damage these days.
See These Portraits of Stars Before They Became Really Famous Julie Andrews Photographed for TV Times in 1977.
If you want to get ahead, get a hat, as the English rose demonstrated in the stage version of My Fair Lady and then on screen in Mary Poppins . Here, she was reflecting on her image after raiding a dressing-up box for this fancy titfer.
Time Inc. UK/TV Times Maggie Smith Photographed for TV Times in 1965.
Downton’s acerbic Dowager Countess would surely have something to say about her real-life self being photographed on a beach. The following year, Dame Maggie received her first Oscar nomination for playing Desdemona in a film of Othello .
Time Inc. UK/TV Times Clive Owen Photographed for TV Times in 1990.
Several years before becoming one of Hollywood’s leading men, the actor was snapped on the set of the ITV drama Chancer . The hit show charted the adventures of a wide-boy financial adviser.Time Inc. UK/TV Times Roger Moore Photographed for TV Times in 1968, just before the final series of The Saint .Time Inc. UK/TV Times Ian McKellen Photographed for TV Times in 1982, at his London riverside home.Time Inc. UK/TV Times Paul Newman Photographed for TV Times in 1974.
The motorsport fanatic was snapped during an interview about his love of cars. He first took to the track for real after being cast in a 1969 racing film called Winning . A few years later, he came second in the famous Le Mans 24-Hour Race.Time Inc. UK/TV Times Emma Thompson and Kenneth Brannagh Photographed for TV Times in 1989.
The young couple, who married that year, were snapped for an ITV adaptation of Look Back in Anger . Time Inc. UK/TV Times Tom Jones
Photographed for TV Times in 1987.
The Welsh heart-throb was a consistent cover favorite for the magazine, happily posing here in swimming trunks in front of his Bel Air mansion.Time Inc. UK/TV Times Karl Malden and Michael Douglas Photographed for TV Times in 1974.
The crime-fighting duo from the classic U.S. series, The Streets of San Francisco . Time Inc. UK/TV Times Rupert Everett
Photographed for TV Times in 1987.
Looking mean, moody and magnificent, the former model posed for this shot by Patrick Lichfield to mark a screening of the film that made his name, Another Country . Time Inc. UK/TV Times Joanna Lumley Photographed for TV Times in 1976
Only months later, she’d instruct a hairdresser to cut and colour her hair ‘like a prep schoolboy’, thus creating The New Avengers blonde Purdey bob that would cause a copycat frenzy at salons nationwide. Time Inc. UK/TV Times Joan Collins Photographed for TV Times in 1971.
The age-defying beauty invited the magazine for an exclusive look around her palatial home in the year she was divorced from second husband Tony Newley. Racy film romp The Stud and U.S. soap superstardom were still to come.Time Inc. UK/TV Times Helen Mirren
Photographed for TV Times in 2005, after winning the TV Times Award for its readers’ All-Time Favourite Actress.Time Inc. UK/TV Times Elton John Photographed for TV Times in 1977.
Having already achieved superstardom on both sides of the Atlantic, Elton reaches the pinnacle of his career, appearing on The Muppet Show in Oct. 1977. But Kermit still has to persuade the reluctant rocker to perform his hit 'Benny and the Jets'.Time Inc. UK/TV Times The Rolling Stones
Photographed for TV Times in 1965, at the ITV studios in London. This was the year of their huge hit 'Satisfaction'. Time Inc. UK/TV Times The Avengers (Diana Rigg & Patrick Macnee)
Photographed for TV Times in 1964.
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