High School Confidential!

Does a good job of eating its cake and having it 2 as it simultaneously acts as 1 of those marijuana scare films (& for its time is not as overheated as it could be, preferring 2 link death 2 heroin) & ripe exploitation flick. Not only does it flirt with the idea of a possible teacher-delinquent hook-up, it has Mamie Van Doren flaunting her assets as she attempts to seduce her nephew. Who'd have thought the possibility of incest could play such an integral part of a public service announcement?

This is pretty stupid in a lot of ways, but it moves like a movie and features a great opening sequence with Jerry Lee Lewis and his piano in the back of a moving pickup. Besides, Mamie Van Doren is at her improbably sexy, comedic best as Tamblyn's seductive "mother" and John Drew Barrymore is a really good baddie. Sure, it's stupid. But not too stupid for me!

An engagingly silly period piece, with hysteria about drugs, determination to be up to date with its teenage slang ('Tomorrow is dragsville, cats') and portentous final statement following a fight between students and gun-toting gangsters: 'You have just seen an authentic disclosure of conditions that unfortunately exist in some of our high schools today...'

Em honra do centenário de Jan Sterling. Esse filme é muito engraçado, praticamente um Reefer Madness dos anos 50 só que muito melhor, apesar de me sentir uma velha do século XXI por não entender metade do que esses jovens estão falando. Mais uma pérola do Jack Arnold. Plus: Jerry Lee Lewis Music Truck! BlurayRip RARBG.

Jack Arnold #3

Junk, but not particularly fun junk. It's just dull