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In the original Hill screenplay, among the many gangs depicted — uniformed crews like the bat-swinging Baseball Furies, the painted mime Hi-Hats, and the all-girl Lizzies — were the Dingos.
As envisioned by Warriors costume designer Bobbie Mannix, the Dingos were to be outfitted in leather fetishwear, some of it studded in chrome rivets and spikes. Sadly, that vision never made it to screen.
“We never shot it,” says Hill. “I’m very sorry about that. What I wanted to show was the gay gang in a positive light.”
The Dingos “weren’t villainous,” Hill explains. “It was not a scene that was negative about the gay gang. I thought it was another way of staying ahead of [the times]. Swan [Michael Beck] was their prisoner and he got away. But they had their dignity.”
Hill says it was studio-mandated budget cuts that led him to sacrifice a good deal of what he’d originally envisioned, and the Dingos were among the many casualties.