She Was No Angel

Back in the late ‘60s, Theresa Saldana’s mom was furious when she joined a Brooklyn gang called the Little Warriors. Now the actress portrays a mom who’s harassed when her son refuses to join a gang in “Angel Town,” an independent action flick (it stars kick boxer Olivier Gruner) set for Nov. 22 release.

“It was nothing like the gangs we have now,” said Saldana, who was “12 or 13” when she briefly became a Warrior. “Our gang was more for the purpose of hanging out together than anything else. It was like a baby version of (the movie) ‘Turf.’ But in truth, there are violent gangs in that same neighborhood today. If some of the same kids had grown up later, who knows?”

Saldana’s mom, feeling the other gang members were “too rowdy,” shipped young Theresa off “to a Catholic camp in the Poconos, where I was frankly much happier.”