Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Pillar to Poster


At teenagers movies were aimed
with promise of passions inflamed
With ads, titillating
the kids they were baiting
but never delivered as claimed

Untamed Youth (Howard W. Koch, 1957) and Girls Town (Charles Haas, 1959)

Juvenile delinquent exploitation films from the 1950s
were typically more mild than wild. But here's a scene

from Girls Town
that proved too racy for censors:

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