Publisher's Synopsis
The Warriors movie is based on a Classical Greek Story the Anabasis written circa 370 BC. Anabasis was about an army sent to conquer Babylon led by Cyrus the Younger. The army was victorious but when Cyrus was killed they were disorganized and had to march back to Greece. This involved crossing the mountains leading to the Black Sea. Meanwhile, the Greeks had to fight the Babylonians who were chasing them.
This explains why the leader of the combined gangs in The Warriors is named Cyrus.
The Warriors have to fight their way all the way back from Woodlawn Cemetery in North Bronx New York down to Coney Island in the bottom of Brooklyn and on the way they have to cross areas controlled by dozens of other juvenile gangs.
Setting out on foot, they come across a lower-echelon group. They make peace with the Orphans but a young woman named Mercy mocks the Orphans as a "chicken" . In my recollection of this movie when it first came out, the young woman was known by the name of "Anybodies".
After the Warriors beat up the Orphans to get past them, the young woman, impressed, joins the Warriors and accompanies and fights with them all the way to South Brooklyn. The girl, played by actress Deborah Van Valkenburgh, stays with them until the end.
Here is one of the many places where the book is different from the movie. In the book, the girl is gang-raped by the Warriors and left behind. In the movie, the girl joins the gang.
