School for Violence

Original title: High School Hellcats

1958
A
1h 9m

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

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A good girl is forced to join a dangerous all-girl high school gang, and only her waiter boyfriend and a caring female teacher can possibly help her before it may become too late.A good girl is forced to join a dangerous all-girl high school gang, and only her waiter boyfriend and a caring female teacher can possibly help her before it may become too late.A good girl is forced to join a dangerous all-girl high school gang, and only her waiter boyfriend and a caring female teacher can possibly help her before it may become too late.

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IMDb RATING

5.6/10

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Yvonne Lime

Joyce Martin

Brett Halsey

Mike Landers
(as Bret Halsey)

Jana Lund

Connie Harris, aka Connie Ross

Susanne Sidney

Dolly Crane
(as Suzanne Sydney)

Heather Ames

Nancy Kilgas

Laurie

Rhoda Williams

Trudy Davis

Don Shelton

Roger Martin

Viola Harris

Linda Martin

Robert Anderson

Police Lt. Manners

Martin Braddock

Arthur Marshall

Mr. Anderson

Tommy Cook

Freddie
(uncredited)

Bobby Gilbert

Sales Clerk
(uncredited)

Troy Patterson

Chuck
(uncredited)

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Trivia
This movie was part of a two-picture deal (the other movie being Hot Rod Gang) between producers Charles "Buddy" Rogers, who was the husband of "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, and Ferde Grofe Jr., son of the composer Ferde Grofe, in association with a nationwide competition in Dig Magazine. Mary Pickford put up $100,000 for each of the movies. Grofe Jr. had his name removed from the credits, fearing the low-brow nature of this and Hot Rod Gang would reflect poorly on his father.

Goofs
Joyce crumples up the note from Mom, throws it in the fireplace, leans on the mantelpiece for a moment, then pushes herself away so hard that the entire fireplace shudders, causing a plant on it to shake, and revealing the entire fireplace wall to be a prop.

Quotes
[first lines]
Meg: . What's the new girl's name?
Connie Harris, aka Connie Ross: Joyce Martin.
Meg: Have you asked her yet?
Connie Harris, aka Connie Ross: I'm not gonna ask her. I'm gonna tell her.
Meg: We haven't had a good initiation this whole term. What are you gonna make her do?
Connie Harris, aka Connie Ross: I think I'll start out with the slacks test.
Dolly Crane: That's too easy!
Connie Harris, aka Connie Ross: Dolly, you bug me.

Connections
Edited into Heavy Petting (1989)

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Featured review

6/10

Okay female JD flick

Yvonne Lime is the new girl in school, and on her first day, she meets the Hellcats, an all-girl gang lead by Jana Lund. Lund tricks Lime into wearing slacks to school the next day, which is not allowed. (!!!) Having proven that she has guts, Lime is initiated and joins the gang and starts living wildly. It's all fun until a girl falls down the stairs and dies, and Lime turns against the gang with the help of her stand-up boyfriend Brett Halsey and sympathetic teacher Rhoda Williams.

This flick was one of two juvenile delinquent pics produced by Buddy Rogers (Mary Pickford's husband) and Ferde Grofe Jr. (son of film composer Ferde Grofe) for A. I. P. It's like a slightly inferior versions of the films Roger Corman was turning in during the same period. It's fun, but nothing to get excited about.