Cautionary Tales Of Yesteryear!
Sex! Drugs! STDs! Juvenile delinquents! Nuclear holocaust! Etc.! A collection of those preachy, teach-y movies that try to show the eeevils all around us, and what happens when the warnings are not heeded! Absurd, inane, and mostly hilarious, these movies must be witnessed! Some, are surprisingly good!...
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- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsLuana WaltersArthur GardnerDorothy ShortA high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.
- DirectorDorothy DavenportMelville ShyerStarsHelen FosterNell O'DayGlen BolesA young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierStarsDorothy ShortKenneth CraigLillian MilesCautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsPhyllis ThaxterRobert KeithWalter MatthauA family living 50 miles away try to flee from the fallout of an atomic bomb that fell on New York City.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsGerald MohrPeggie CastleDan O'HerlihyA group of people at a bar witness the unfolding events of a Soviet invasion of the USA.
- DirectorCharles EdwardsIrvin S. Yeaworth Jr.StarsNoel ReyburnEthel BarrettJerry FranksA small town boy heads for the lights of the big city and discovers the delights of hard liquor and fast women. Ere long, he becomes an addict, a dope peddler and a shop-lifter to obtain money for drugs.
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsVivian McGillRose TapleyAl RigaliThis exploitation film belongs to the social guidance genre of quasi-documentary narratives, which exhort young adults to follow particular moral and social prescriptions related to sexuality and drug use.
- DirectorWilliam MartinStarsPatty McCormackRichard MeadeDouglas RutherfordA young delinquent is sent to prison for a statutory rape.
- StarsTarry GreenTeenager Mary has strong physical yearnings for her boyfriend, so she asks her mother for advice on what she should do about said carnal cravings.
- StarsLorne GreeneThe short film reflects on young genders when back in the 50s social courting was considered sexual and led up to dating and intimacy.
- DirectorBoris PetroffStarsRonnie BurnsPamela LincolnDarrell HoweThe crazed brother of a condemned killer sent to the gas chamber swears vengeance on those he holds responsible for his brother's execution.
- DirectorSande N. JohnsenStarsDiane ContiLinda GaleEileen DietzA girl from Manhattan moves into a neighborhood that is the turf of the Rebels, a female teenage gang. She quickly rises to the top of the gang and sets her sights on the leader of the neighborhood tough guys.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsDiane SinclairLyman WilliamsGeorge IrvingAn extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
- DirectorRobert C. DertanoStarsGloria VictorTimothy FarrellHarry KeatonA sleazy gangster has a gang of young girls commit robberies and prostitution for him by getting them hooked on drugs.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsAnthony GearyJudith LightMark HarmonDoctor Kyle Richards takes a job managing an office in the Hamptons where herpes runs rampant. He is frustrated by the community's denial and decides to go public with the epidemic to raise public awareness about the problem.
- DirectorWilliam A. O'ConnorStarsLois JanuaryNoel MadisonSheila BromleyA drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends."
- DirectorDavid E. DurstonStarsPhilip Michael ThomasHarlan Cary PoeJosie JohnsonA knowledgeable doctor, (Philip Michael Thomas) moves to a secluded community and soon discovers a deadly virus changing the town's young people. What is more disturbing, is the conspiracy to protect this epidemic when he tries cure it.
- DirectorAlbert H. KelleyStarsJoseph CrehanMarcia Mae JonesJean FenwickNaive small-town girl gets pregnant on her prom night, and winds up in the clutches of the local abortionist.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsCorey AllenRebecca WellesRichard BakalyanA planned kidnapping goes awry when the gang leader falls for the victim.
- DirectorBernard GirardStarsConnie StevensBobby DriscollMark DamonAn unruly teenage gang led by Mark Damon gets their kicks by crashing square teen parties around town. At an innocent teen gathering, Damon charms rich spoiled brat Connie Stevens into accompanying him to a motel party and she drags along her decent young date (ex-child star Bobby Driscoll). While there, Damon discovers his alcoholic mother (Doris Dowling), who falls down a flight of stairs while struggling to get away from her son. Along the way, the kids' parents provide the viewer with insight about their children's troubled lives. The final film of both Farmer and Driscoll before they moved to television work.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsLili GentleMark DamonEdward BinnsTommy Price (Mark Damon) is the leader of a gang of young thugs interested in thrills, hot rods, and girls. His friends bet him he can't make it with 17-year-old Rosemary Clinton (Lili Gentle). Their date turns out badly and her parents (Dabbs Greer, Ann Doran) forbid her to see him again. They keep meeting, and the relationship changes him to the extent that he plans to go to college and change his life, which delights his parents (Eddie Binns, Frances Mercer).
- DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsSteven MarloLuana PattenTom SeldenGripping melodrama about newlyweds involved with a psychopathic killer who holds them captive.
- DirectorCharles LedererStarsJoan EvansMelvyn DouglasLynn BariShunned by her self-absorbed parents, a teenage girl's need for love and attention drives her to delinquency and a suicide attempt - an act that finally brings her parents to their senses.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsYvonne LimeBrett HalseyJana LundA good girl is forced to join a dangerous all-girl high school gang, and only her waiter boyfriend and a caring female teacher can possibly help her before it may become too late.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsGene EvansScott MarloweCarolyn KearneyCrime drama about juvenile delinquency, society's view of it and law enforcement's response to it in 1950s America.
- DirectorMelville ShyerStarsMary AinsleeBetty CompsonWilly CastelloA rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring.
- DirectorPat JacksonStarsChristina GreggJanina FayeCyril RaymondAn innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone and nearly becomes the victim of the attacker, only to put her younger sister's life in grave danger.
- DirectorJohn KortyStarsWilliam ShatnerRuth RomanWendell BurtonA 15-year-old girl in late-1960s America is sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs and eventually seeks help.
- DirectorJames CruzeStarsRichard CromwellHelen MackLionel AtwillBank teller Jimmy Caldwell and his fiance, Ruth Holden, grow weary of struggling to make ends meet and decide to rob Jimmy's bank. The selfish young couple agree that even if they spend ten years in prison, it will not matter because they will have the money when they are released. During what appears to be a normal transaction, Jimmy gives Ruth $100,000 that he has taken from the vault, and after they hide the money in a music box, which they mail to Ruth's Uncle Billy for safekeeping, they turn themselves in. Mike Roberts, a detective for the bank's insurance company, tries to convince them to lighten their sentence by returning the money, but they consider the money rightfully theirs and refuse. The judge hearing their case is dismayed by their lack of repentance, and sentences them to one-to-ten years without parole. Jimmy and Ruth are then sent to separate prisons, but communicate by notes. Jimmy's tough cellmate, Blackie Clayton, tries to find out where the money is hidden, but Jimmy gives him misleading information. Sometime later, Roberts arranges for Jimmy and Ruth's paroles and attaches special stipulations that he hopes will make them go straight. The couple are paroled under the conditions that they have no civil rights and cannot marry for eight years. They are crushed by the conditions, but will not give in when Roberts tells them they will be free if they return the money. They try to retrieve the music box from Uncle Billy, but they discover that he has died and that his possessions are to be auctioned. They go to the auction, where they are outbid by auction aficionado Victor J. Holbrook, after which they go to Holbrook's apartment and explain that they need the box. Holbrook tells them he has already sent the box to his aunt, Martha Foster, and when Ruth and Jimmy return to their boardinghouse, they find Blackie waiting for them. He orders them to cut him in on the stolen money, but when Roberts appears, Blackie sneaks out after stealing their money and car. Jimmy and Ruth hop a train to Sunnydale, where Martha lives, and although they are detained by sheriff Ira Foster, Martha's husband, until they show their parole papers, they find Martha's guest farm, check in and locate the music box. After dinner, Roberts, alerted by Ira, shows up to warn Jimmy and Ruth that Blackie is close on their trail. Later that night, Blackie threatens Ruth that he will kill Jimmy unless she gives him the money. Jimmy and Ruth attempt to elude Blackie, but he soon catches up with them and fights with Jimmy. Ruth knocks Blackie out with the music box, after which Roberts appears on the scene. The beleaguered young couple give Roberts the money and determine to live an honest life, in which they will earn their happiness instead of stealing it.
- DirectorW. Merle ConnellStarsJoy ReynoldsGeri MoffattMarko PerriA girl visiting her sister in Hollywood hopes for a modeling career, but is tricked by pimps into working at a brothel.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsSally BlaneJohn DarrowJ. Farrell MacDonaldA reckless young society girl whose uncle is a judge is assigned a young offender as her chauffeur to try to help straighten her out.
- DirectorW. Merle ConnellStarsDorothy DukeWilliam ThomasonTimothy FarrellA happily-married couple having no luck with starting their family finally discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial insemination, which at the time was considered to be quite scandalous.
- DirectorBamlet Lawrence Price Jr.StarsBarbara MarksKurt MartellRobert A. SherryCassandra falls in with the wrong crowd in high school. Her home life is not great, and she turns to a group of delinquent bikers to escape. Before long she's doing drugs and failing her classes until she has no chance of getting in to college. She marries her devoted, clueless high-school sweetheart Johnny, but soon grows desperate for more drugs and falls into her old habits. The police try to help her out of her dilemma and take action against the increasing drug traffic, but have only mixed results in both pursuits.
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsHarley WoodHugh McArthurPat CarlyleA young girl slowly becomes a dope pusher.
- DirectorPaul FreesStarsTony TravisKaren KadlerPeter BreckA young singer's chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.
- DirectorFredric GadetteStarsSeamon GlassThayer RobertsAubrey MartinA deputy sheriff stops motorists on a mountain road after police dispatch reports of a possible nuclear attack.
- A compilation of educational anti-drug and anti-alcohol short films from the 1960s and the 1970s.
- DirectorMel MarshallStarsKevin TigheGerald LeRoyJulie ConnersIn this dark vision of drug use, a former classmate turned dealer seduces a high-school student into drug addiction.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsEleanor ParkerAgnes MooreheadEllen CorbyA gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly, inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards, and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence is up?
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsGlenn FordAnne FrancisLouis CalhernA new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.
- DirectorHoward W. KochStarsMamie Van DorenLori NelsonJohn RussellFollows two vagrant sisters working for crooked characters at a rock 'n' roll prison-farm.