My Boys Are Good Boys (1979)

A group of incarcerated juvenile delinquents (Sean Roche, Ron Lake, Robert Cokjlat) with the help of a teenage girl (Kerry Lynn) on the outside plan the daring robbery of an armored car. The driver (Ralph Meeker, who's also one of the movie's producers) of the armored car is the father of one of the boys (Roche). Directed by Bethel Buckalew, previously known for directing such classics as THE DIRTY MIND OF YOUNG SALLY, COUNTRY CUZZINS, MIDNITE PLOWBOY and THE PIG KEEPER'S DAUGHTER. Bloody awful doesn't begin to describe it! Although top billed, Meeker, Ida Lupino and Lloyd Nolan play second fiddle to the juvenile leads whose acting is atrocious. Three of the four never acted again and one gave up acting to beccome a writer which says it all. The film is yet another movie in which juvenile delinquents are portrayed as misunderstood and it's all the grown ups' fault for not understanding them and giving them enough love! There's also an unpleasant misogynist undercurrent to the film as the only two women in the movie, Lupino and Lynn, are portrayed as rotten to the core. Stunt drivers got a lot of work on this one. With David Doyle and Brice Coefield.