Teenage Devil Dolls (1955)

★★★★ · Could Be a Modern Case Study · WINSTON SMITH3353 · 2013-03-31

Remarkable. This film was made in 1952 for $14,000 (about $123,000 in 2013). The film was the masters thesis of film student Bamlet L. Price, Jr. while he was attending UCLA's film school. After finding a distributor, it was released in 1955. Film locations were: Street scenes: Los Angeles, California Apartment scenes: Westwood, California Desert scenes: Mohave Desert, California The drug bust scene, where the police order all of the teenage kids out of the apartment, was the Westwood home of the film's writer, producer, and director, Bamlet L. Price, Jr. and his wife, MGM contract actress…

★★★★ · It's funny, cause it's true... · Vic Demise · 2011-04-03

...not true like in "true story", but generally speaking, that's about how addiction happens, and how it goes (been there done that). Yes, it's rather silly at times, but the meat of it is still worth hearing. "Gather round kids!!" And yes, no self-disrespecting junky would leave the dope in the car and wander into the desert!! (and after a few hours of kicking in a 107 degree cave, I sure as S#!t would have gone BACK for the drugs!! It's both funny and sad that addiction is STILL being treated as if it were a mental illness, though its recognition as a (self-inflicted medical condition is…

★★★★ · Watch that 1st joint, it’s a dilly! · picfixer · 2013-03-07

Yeah it's a silent movie with sound added later. Yeah at times it goes hilariously over the top. Nevertheless, for a helping of '50s exploitation junk food it features surprisingly good low-budget production values including good camera direction, good cinematography, competent editing and a well-executed narration, if it does get a bit silly at times. Good video and audio. Complete print.

★★★★ · Teenage gangsters??? · I_h8_screen_names · 2013-11-27

The motorcycle gang at the beginning of the movie looks more like Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica. Back when this was made, any male on a motorcycle was considered BAD news for the parents of girls. And, that is too bad, because the guys on motorcycles were probably safer for their daughters to date than the captain of the football team. More fun, too! Most of the people who rode motorcycles back then were the same as today, just decent, law abiding people who never took any drug except for an aspirin. This is definitely one of the "so bad it is good" movies. Bamlet L. Price, Jr. was…

★★★★ · Historic Shots of DTLA, WLA, and Southern Pacific Steam · zehnder99 · 2024-03-11

Worth watching for fans of 90024, 90025, 90049, and vintage steam. The high school is University High on Texas Ave in WLA with a close up shot that uses Royce Hall at UCLA. Shot of Bundy Drive near Pico with historic gas station in background. Westwood village apartments, St. Alban's Episcopal on Hilgard Ave, tracking shots of Venice, CA. Nice close-up action shots of Southern Pacific steam locomotive with (now) vintage rolling stock. This student film is a brave project if a bit dated and extremely hard-boiled. Seventy years later, we should acknowledge that the filmmaker was eerily accurate…

★★ · More Conservative Propaganda · RJClay · 2013-12-03

It is obvious from the start that this movie deals with a subject matter that the creators of the movie had no facts on-hand. All the old wheezes about the "dangers of marijuana" are here. It's like a poorly executed parody of "Dragnet" when that show entertained the same subject matter. "All drug addicts started with MARIJUANA !!!" They also drank milk at some time in their lives. I suppose you could connect drug addiction to milk drinking in the same sense. Keep in-mind that ALL of the bug-a-boos about marijuana are here. This film would be funny if it weren't so out-of-line and filled with…