High School Confidential!

May 30, 1958

1h 25m

★ 5.3

Behind these "nice" school walls... A TEACHERS' NIGHTMARE!...A TEEN-AGE JUNGLE!

Overview

A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Albert Zugsmith Productions

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

High School Confidential! Trailers

Cast

Tony Baker / Mike Wilson

Russ Tamblyn

Arlene Williams

Jan Sterling

J. I. Coleridge

John Drew Barrymore

Gwen Dulaine

Mamie Van Doren

Self

Jerry Lee Lewis

Bix

Ray Anthony

Mr. A

Jackie Coogan

Quinn

Charles Chaplin, Jr.

Joan Staples

Diane Jergens

Jukey Judlow

Burt Douglas

Steve Bentley

Michael Landon

Doris

Jody Fair

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?

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