Saturday, July 7, 2012

High School Hellcats

The innocent new student at a small town high school quickly discovers that if she wants to be accepted she’ll have to join the all-girl gang that runs things in and out of the classroom. Who knows how ‘cutting edge’ this one was when it first hit theaters in 1958, but it’s hard to keep from rolling your eyes when the gang initiation involves tricking the new student into wearing slacks to school (gasp!). The script reads more like a Public Service Announcements on the dangers of teenage life (circa 1958), but there’s a camp factor that makes it a guilty pleasure.

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