The Warriors, from the acclaimed 1965 novel by Sol Yurick, is a cult movie directed by Walter Hill in 1979.

Modeled after Xenophon's Anabasis (circa 370 BC), where an army of Greek mercenaries at the service of Cyrus the Great wins its way back home from Persia, this dystopian tale of the New York gangs is twice told via the radio.

Literally, because the pace of the movie is punctuated by the threatening on-air messages of a woman DJ. Symbolically, because at some point the broadcast is transmogrified into the close-up of a boombox:

JVC RC 828 L

Before this iconic apparition, another box is seen in a street scene for a few seconds. You never get the chance of a frontal view, but it doesn't look like the 828. Here's the best that I can get from the movie, maybe somebody is able to identify it --or to confirm that, after all, it's the 828:

I can confirm that the box we have the side view of is NOT an 828.

I just looked at mine and although it has the black square on the side for inputs etc, its placement on the side of the box is different. Then what really ruled it out was the handle comes straight out the top on an 828 where the handle on the box above is side mounted.

So, I don't know what it is, it looks small and thin, it could even be a mono.

Thanks James, I have no 828 so I wasn't sure.

The images, blurred as they are, suggest that the other box is either dark grey or black. It is a pre-1979 (or a 1979) model, maybe not so thin as the low-quality pics suggest, and probably smaller than the 828. Finding out which one is not easy, although identification is not the point. It would be fun, of course, but it is irrelevant to a better understanding of the movie.

The camera cuts the 838, a totemic model, because the director is aware that the boombox is a powerful and almost universal symbol of the gangs. The box in the street scene doesn't need to be well-known. It prepares the close-up and serves the additional purpose of showing it in "real" action, so to speak.

A cult classic!

yea the front veiw is a JVC RC 828  but the one from the side seems not to be the black panel doesn't match up

Some pics more from the same movie which may be the same boombox
as the other gang have .

What we are looking for here is for a radio that was made before 

at least February 1979.

and ''Κύρου Ανάβασις '' by Xenophon's is a story that has similarities

with Homer's ''Odyssey'' .

It doesnt matter where you are heading too

all that matters is the trip you made to reach your goal.

Btw

New York Urban nights must have been awesome by early 1979.

the first one is smaller and thinner, than the last one.

The last one looks a lot like a Sony CF-580. But it's hard to say 100%.

Thanks deech & metad for your excellent contributions. I suspected that more street scenes with boxes were shot, just didn't look close enough to find out. It appears that no less than 2 or possibly 3 boxes were used in the production of the movie. Very interesting, so much effort on the director's part means that at the beginning of 1979 he wanted to make sure that the boombox appeared in the movie as a signature icon of the age.