High School Confidential! (DVD)

Fanning the flames of Eisenhower America's growing paranoia, Jack Arnold's HiGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL! Is the quintessential juvenile delinquency film - celebrating the very sex-drugs-and-rock'n'roll culture it pretends to condemn. Russ Tamblyn (WEST SIDE STORY) stars as Tony Baker, the new kid at Santa Bellow High, whose cocky attitude and ambitious weed-dealing enable him to infiltrate the gang of a local narcotics boss (Jackie Coogan). But HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL! Is much more than a hardboiled crime picture. It's is a pop-culture touchstone, a Rebel Without a Cause without the angst, embellished by the insanely shapely Mamie Van Doren, beat poetry for the hep set, and, of course, the throbbing theme music of Jerry Lee Lewis.

Starring: Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, John Drew Barrymore, Mamie van Doren, Diane Jergens, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Anthony, Jackie Coogan, Charles Chaplin Jr., Michael Landon, Burt Douglas, Charles Halton, Helen Kleeb, Ned Wever, Carmen Phillips, Steffi Sidney, Helen Jay, William Vaughn, Rusty Lane, Regis Parton, Loren Janes, Ralph Reed, Rad Fulton, Steve Drexel, Kevin Kelly, Jacquelyn Park, Russell Smith

Director: Albert Zugsmith

Rating: NR