What About Drinking (1954)

★★★★★ · The, until now, unexplored connections between pickles and drinking - Finally revealed! · Spuzz · 2005-09-03

Highly oddball film featuring a class of monotone voiced kids talking about drinking. Susan answers the phone at the swinging party theyre having and finds out that 2 of their classmates were drunk and hit a pedestrian with their car. Instead of reacting with horror, the Kansas kids say, Gosh, in probably one of the worst acting Ive ever seen. This soon spills into a conversation about the demon liquor, some kids, like Sally, insist alcohol is the root of all evil, and then theres Ted who, in a sudden burst of over-actitis, starts talking a storm about…

★★★★ · "Not a simple question, is it?" · 23_skidoo · 2007-07-20

Yale University joined forces with Young America Films and Centron Corporation for this discussion film on drinking---particularly teen drinking. It's literally a discussion film, with the majority of the film's ten minutes spent with six or seven twangy Kansas teens sitting in a living room talking and arguing about the pros and cons of alcohol, after they find out some of their friends have been arrested for DUI. Almost everything you could talk about is covered (and one guy compares alcoholism to eating too many pickles). The film is actually fairly well-done, with only the overacting of…

★★★ · 1950's script on teenage drinking · ERD · 2006-09-23

A good script written for the 1950's teenager that gave different view points of drinking. Only the actor who played Jerry seemed natural, the other members of the cast were mediocre, some over acted. Their thick regional accent was a bit of a detraction that limited the effect of their role.

★★★ · Bob and Ted's Excessive Adventure · Steve Nordby · 2004-07-13

A party. The kids are all there. Phone rings. There's been an accident. A bottle in the car. Bob and Ted in trouble. Morality discussion ensues. Mostly bad acting, but a fair presentation about alcohol use for it's time, with the kids taking the positions advocated by a parent or religious leader: Ok in moderation, always wrong, unhealthy, neutral . . . unlike the teens I grew up with, no advocate for getting blasted. Rational Jerry recaps their positions, then, inevitably: "What do you think?"