High School Confidential!
1958 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. As he moves his way up the ladder, a schoolteacher tries to reform him, his aunt tries to seduce him, and the "weedheads" are eager to use his newly found enterprise, but he has his own agenda. After an altercation involving fast cars, hidden drugs, and police, he's accepted by the drug kingpin and is off into the big leagues. A typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.
Direction Jack Arnold
Cast Russ Tamblyn · Jan Sterling · John Drew Barrymore · Mamie Van Doren · Diane Jergens · Jerry Lee Lewis · Ray Anthony · Jackie Coogan · Charles Chaplin Jr. · Burt Douglas · Jody Fair · Phillipa Fallon · James Todd · Lyle Talbot · William Wellman Jr. · Michael Landon · Mel Welles · William Smith
Soundtrack Albert Glasser
Screenplay Robert Blees · Lewis Meltzer
Cinematography Harold J. Marzorati
Original title High School Confidential!
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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