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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Untamed Youth (1957)
Two sisters (Mamie Van Doren, Lori Nelson) while hitch hiking to L.A. to break into show business decide to cool off by going skinny dipping. A corrupt sheriff (Robert Foulk) arrests them as vagrants and they get sent to a work farm picking cotton for 30 days along with other "hophead" juvenile delinquents. Directed by Howard W. Koch. Delicious! This kitschy expose of the wild rock 'n roll generation is, for lack of a better word, a hoot! Apparently, picking cotton in the hot sun all day doesn't sap their energy as rocker Eddie Cochran belts out Cottonpicker and everybody rocks out in the cotton fields. Then they rock 'n roll all night in the bunk house where Mamie bops to Oobala Baby (the Caucasian cook interrupts them briefly and then tells them to go back to their "African antics"). John Russell is the wicked cotton fram owner who exploits them and Don Burnett, the son of the local judge (Lurene Tuttle), who exposes the corruption and exploitation. Everything ends happily as Mamie bumps and grinds to Go Go Calypso. Not to be missed by connoisseurs of the tawdry. With Yvonne Lime and Wally Brown.
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