edwagreen Since Russ Tamblyn is really an undercover police officer sent to a high school to break up the drug trade, who is Mamie Van Doren, the woman who plays the boozy aunt that he lives with?The film is most interesting since it deals with familiar themes- rampant use of drugs in our schools and parents,who either deny that the problem exists, or continuously say, "Not my child!"Tamblyn is terrific as the masquerading delinquent. His utter disrespect for authority is fantastically depicted here.Jan Sterling, a terrific actress, is terribly miscast here as the teacher who tries to help Tamblyn. With her facial looks, she looks like she wants to be part of the action in a desire to be loved.Jackie Coogan, Mr. A., is in fine form here as the head drug dealer.

Gargantuan-Media Gear up for a swanky romp through the seedy underbelly of campy exploitation in this classic nugget featuring the World's Oldest Troubled Teens.A fiery Jerry Lee Lewis opens the movie rolling through the bucolic 1950's streets belting out the title song in opening credits. The chase and race scenes in this movie are actually really excellent for a B movie. This almost makes for the ham handed "twists" (that were probably mid-shoot re-writes) of Tony secretly being Mike Wilson "Undercover Man".It appears to me that the writers wanted to squeak by the Hays Code after they created a unforgiving anti-hero in Tony. This wounded anti-hero role, before the High School Caesar is revealed as an FBI MAN, would be picked up on by generations of actors including Brando and James Dean minus the G-Man or redeeming values angle.Mamie is awesome as usual. She plays a perky and moody sexpot on the prowl competing for Tony/Mike's attention with his teacher, the straight laced Jan Sterling. Be sure to dig the way out hipster/beatnik action in the jazz nightclub featuring Mr. Big and catch a young Michael Landon wandering through scene after scene visibly wondering exactly what he's doing in the film at all.If you like this flick, you'll really dig Highschool Ceasar!

rboylern For what it is, a B-movie of the first order, I loved this clunker about marijuana and high school students. Acting skills required for the roles are minimal, nor do any of the teenagers even look like they're under 25 years old. Russ Tamblyn, for all his trying .... well, he should have remained a dancer. Jan Sterling gives an OK performance as the teacher, but it's far below her standards. Mamie Van Doren of the bleach-blond hair and prodigious balcony provides some completely unintended comic relief in the role of the somewhat whorish aunt. The ghastly script only adds to the triumph of this cliché riddled classic. The fight scenes are so fake as to be seen from a mile away. All the young women look like they have some kind of cone-shaped things in their brassieres, according to the fashion of the times. A "must see" for all B-movie lovers.

hawparks Believe or not but in this movie I just love to see over and over again the opening credits. And I am sure that everybody that sees this movie, will agree with me. Another outstanding thing is that if you think that rap music was invented and started in the 90's, you must check out this lady from the 50's. Now, the rest of the movie is a very serious drama. A drama that made me laugh throughout the movie like if it was a comedy. Could this be a funny drama? I don't know but if you give it a chance you'll know what I mean. And about the DVD, I was disappointed to read that it was in "full screen", but when I saw it I couldn't be more happy to see that it was a mistake and it was in widescreen as it should (too bad it was mono). And too bad that in those days the credits at the end were so short. It would've been great to see Jerry do the whole "high school confidential" again, or maybe "great balls of fire". I gave it a 10 for the credits, 8 for the rap song and 0 for the rest, My total is 6.