Author Archive: Retro

Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms. Poor Anna just can’t seem to ‘straighten out’ her delinquent daughter. Her path eventually leads to crime, rebellion, death, and redemption. Her sleazy boryfriend leads her down a path of moral ineptitude. Good performance by Syms. Upgraded 9-94.

Spoiled teenager with wealthy, apathetic parents leads a gang which runs a protection racket at his high school. Written and Produced by O’Dale Ireland. Dir. O’Dale Ireland

A young girl is framed for a robbery, and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.

The owner of beatnik coffeehouse is the man with the plan: he drafts his loser buddies into a million-dollar armored car robbery. Dir. Gene Fowler

Teenage hoodlum goes on a shooting spree, picks up some chicks and takes it on the lam. The whole entourage winds up at a farmhouse, where they hide out and hold a family hostage. Produced by Sam Katzman. Dir. Fred Sears

A young singer’s chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.

A gang of teenage delinquents terrorize a small community by stealing cars and stripping them for parts, then selling the parts to a crooked junkyard owner. The police and an insurance company investigator set out to break up the gang.

When the shootings of two juvenile inmates bring public protest, a psychologist is brought in to see if he can do anything to control the problems peacefully.

Good Time Girl, directed by David MacDonald and based on a story by Arthur La Bern (It Always Rains On Sunday) starts off unpromisingly, as juvenile justice official Flora Robson tries to keep a would-be female felon on the straight-and-narrow, telling the cautionary tale of Gwen Rawlings (Jean Kent). A victim of an unhappy home and her own stupidity, Rawlings leaves home and, with help from her sleazy new neighbor Jimmy Rosso (Peter Glenville, the future director), gets a job as a hat-check girl at a club run by Max Vine (Herbert Lom). But Jimmy’s jealousy soon gets him fired, and leaves him aiming for revenge on Max and Gwen. Despite the best efforts of Michael Farrell (Dennis Price), the one truly decent man she’s ever met, Jimmy achieves his goal and Gwen is sent to a reformatory. It is there that she’s truly corrupted by being locked up with more seasoned juvenile (and not [...]