High School Confidential (Blu-ray)

Behind these "nice" school walls... A TEACHERS' NIGHTMARE!...A TEEN-AGE JUNGLE!
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 26, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1958
  • Label: Olive

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Rating: 3/5 -- What makes High School Confidential a spectacularly unconvincing anti-marijuana manifesto also makes it a consistently amusing, eminently re-watchable camp comedy. Full Review
The Dissolve
Sep 8, 2014
This classic cult teensploitation flick from 1958 has it all...
Rolling Stone
Jul 8, 2004
As astringent a vision of the late-'50s as Frank Tashlin's are opulent Full Review
CinePassion
Feb 13, 2010
Rating: 2.5/5 -- Hilariously broad exploitation stuff.
eFilmCritic.com
Jul 27, 2002
Rating: C- -- A most ridiculous classic cult teen-exploitation film about juvenile delinquents in the 1950s, but not without being entertaining. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Mar 28, 2008
Rating: 2/5 -- Hot stuff in '58, but period sleaze is nostalgic fun now.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Aug 3, 2007

Product Description:

This camp classic tries to keep a straight face as a "sizzling expose" of American high schools. New kid Tony (Russ Tamblyn) talks crazy slang, makes a pass at Miss Jergens (Joan Staples), scores some grass, drag races against a kid played by Michael Landon, and outclasses the other big man on the schoolyard played by John Drew Barrymore, all in his first day. As it turns out, Tony is an undercover narcotics agent, and really wants to help these poor kids, especially poor Arlene (Jan Sterling), a sweet girl who seems doomed now that she's hard her first puff of "mary jane." He starts working with, and falling for, Miss Jergens, but Tony's horny aunt (the busty Mamie Van Doren) keeps interrupting his homework by trying to seduce him. There's even beatnik poetry, and Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester from the ADDAM'S FAMILY) as Mr. A, the top man of the dope ring. Jerry Lee Lewis swings by on a flat bed truck to bang out the title tune on his piano. This is the pinnacle of 1950s rock-and-roll, juvenile delinquent movies, and an essential addition to any camp aficionado's library.

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