High School Confidential (Jack Arnold)

[pro-bassoonist]

High School Confidential Blu-ray



Courtesy of Olive Films.

Synopsis: Fanning the flames of Eisenhower America's growing paranoia, Jack Arnold's High School Confidential! is the quintessential juvenile delinquency film -- celebrating the very sex-drugs-and-rock'n'roll culture it pretends to condemn.

Russ Tamblyn (West Side Story) stars as Tony Baker, the new kid at Santa Bellow High, whose cocky attitude and ambitious weed-dealing enable him to infiltrate the gang of a local narcotics boss (Jackie Coogan). But High School Confidential! is much more than a hardboiled crime picture. It's is a pop-culture touchstone, a Rebel Without a Cause without the angst, embellished by the insanely shapely Mamie Van Doren, beat poetry for the hep set, and, of course, the throbbing theme music of Jerry Lee Lewis. STREET DATE: AUGUST 26TH.

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[NoirFan]

Hopefully Zugsmith's other hep-cat time-capsule, The Beat Generation, is somewhere on the fall slate.

[The Great Owl]

I will definitely be ordering this one, since I'm a big fan of Jan Sterling, and because this movie also features Jerry Lee Lewis as himself.

Here is a fun blog write-up about this movie.

[Jobla]

There's more discussion of this film in the Olive Films thread.