High School Big Shot (1959)

1959 · Feature film · 70 min · dir. Joel Rapp

The kid who showed the big time how!

• Crime
• Drama

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Synopsis

Unpopular at school because of his high I.Q., neglected by his weak and alcoholic father, Marvin is easy prey for the campus vamp, Betty, who pretends an interest in Marv only so that he will write her term paper. When the two are discovered cheating by their professor, the longed-for scholarship recommendation is withdrawn. Meanwhile the jealousy of Betty's boyfriend has been aroused and when Marv learns that he can only hold the girl's affections by offering her riches, he plans a million…

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Details

Director

Joel Rapp

Writer

Joel Rapp

Cinematography

John M. Nickolaus Jr.

Studio

Sparta Productions, The Filmgroup

Released

1959-10-16

Running time

70 minutes

Cast & crew

• JJoel Rapp Director
• Tom Pittman
• VVirginia Aldridge
• HHoward Veit
• Malcolm Atterbury
• Stanley Adams
• Louis Quinn
• Peter Leeds
• JJohn Barrick

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