Synopsis
Tells the story of Jerry Warner, a junior high school student who finds himself in trouble with the authorities and realizes that it is his own attitude and behavior that have caused his predicament. "Produced with the cooperation of the Los Angeles City School District, the Inglewood Unified School District, and the Inglewood Police Department."
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- Running time
- 10 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
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★★★★ · With a Teeny Tiny Voice · Christine Hennig · 2003-10-15
High school student Jerry Warner sits in front of the principle's office, his life flashing before his eyes. Mostly it's a life filled with such horrible crimes as throwing milk cartons, riding a bicycle with no hands, and spray-painting a teacher's lab coat. Jerry narrates his life story, and either puberty is still several years in the future for him, or they got a 4th-grader to dub in his voice. Jerry gets suspended for his pranks and this causes him to turn over a new leaf in the direction of conformity to adult expectations. He'd better, or I'm sure Sid Davis has gruesome consequences in…
★★★★ · Effective film for its 1958 generation · ERD · 2006-07-11
A good guidance film for the 1958 generation. Well written, acted and directed.
★★★ · Not a porno. · Spuzz · 2003-08-23
Poor kid, after doing such dastardly deed as spray-painting a lab coat, throwing a milk box at a fellow student and driving a bike with no hands into oncoming traffic, the kid then gets whats coming to him from the Vice principal, ah but wait, the kid has thought it over on how rotten he was and is given a second chance. This Sid Davis film looks ok, has a good message, but the ending feels totally tacked on.
★★★ · "in this fine mess!" · uniQ · 2011-04-21
Jerry Warner sits uncomfortably in a weird room that has 3 thin doors leading from it. Here, he reflects on his misdeeds: 1. Running in the 'hall' (This is a sidewalk next to the building) and bumping into a girl, knocking her books down. 2. Hitting a girl in the head with a milk carton (!) and getting someone else blamed for it. 2a. Hitting up someones milk carton and fighting. 2b. Doing a bad job on trash detail, watch him miss that paper! 3. Getting an F in a 'Home Assignment', in Algebra apparently. 4. Riding his bike out of the school grounds into the street, almost getting run down by a…
★★ · Rowdy Pre-Pubescent Student Tamed · Dodsworth the Cat · 2022-07-11
Conform! Conform! Conform! That's the message Sid Davis pounds into you through a boy narrator whose voice hasn't changed yet. Conform is what he does at the end of the film. One wonders what he'll do another ten years later in the late '60s, when people his age would be protesting the Vietnam War, doing drugs, listening to psychedelic music and dressing informally, all the very anti-thesis of conformity. This being the 1950s, young Jerry's stupid stunts involve hanging out late at an innocuous pizza parlour and spray-painting a, presumably washable, lab coat. No f-bombs at teachers, no…