High School Hellcats

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There's a gang in this class.
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I'm the boss.
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I see.
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Biologically speaking, it's of primary importance that man should want to mate.
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Hey, that's for sure!
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Biological!
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What should a girl do?
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Join up with the gang or go it alone?
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Pretty Yvonne Lime lives on the screen
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these dramatic and important events in every young girl's life.
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Her first sincere kiss.
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I don't want my girl missing her on with those creeps.
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Her first grown up giving of love.
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Her joining of a secret society.
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What a Hellcat she's going to make!
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The Hellcats are the hell racers in every high school determined to be different.
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Daring.
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Defiant.
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Dedicated to doing well...
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…all the wrong things.
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Did you ever steal?
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No! You'll learn.
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If you're going to ditch me on a Saturday night, you can spend a whole day with your hell cats.
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You know how to beat me when you want to apologize.
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On the Connie Harris case, you asked me to call.
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I'm afraid there may be trouble.
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There's the devil to pay when High School Hellcats and high school hot shots get together.
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On them, anything goes party.
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We're not talking about actors.
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We mean a real monster.
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I brought her back.
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She'll live and I'll get her another body.
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I know they're gonna catch me, but don't let anyone see me like that! Please, Doctor!
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Help me!
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Biologically speaking, it's of primary importance that man should want to mate.
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Hey, that's for sure!
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You don't get all your kicks from surfing, do you?
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We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man.
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And we want to get loaded.
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You think you're gonna make a slave of the world?
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I'll see you in hell first!
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The American International Podcast.
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Are you ready?
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Thank you for joining us for the American International Podcast.
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I'm Jeff Markin.
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I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
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And on this episode, we explore yet another example of AIP's version of We Were Youth
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as cliques turn deadly in High School Hellcats from 1958.
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High School Hellcats was directed by Edward L Bernds, written by Mark Lowell and Jan Englund
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and produced by Charles "Buddy" Rogers for American International Pictures.
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High School Hellcats stars Yvonne Lime as Joyce Martin, Brett Halsey as Mike Landers,
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Jana Lund as Connie Harris, Suzanne Sydney as Dolly Crane, Heather Ames as Meg, Nancy Kilgas as Laurie.
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It also stars Rhoda Williams as Trudy Davis, Don Shelton as Roger Martin,
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Viola Harris as Linda Martin, Robert Anderson as Police Lieutenant Manners.
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Martin Braddock as Rip, Arthur Marshall as Mr. Anderson and Tommy Cook as Freddie.
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High School Hellcats begins with an establishing shot of the high school.
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A car pulls up and it's cut off by a gelopy, but they both seem to be going to the same destination.
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These are high school kids on their way to school or being dropped off at school.
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We go inside the school and inside the girls' restroom where a girl gang meeting is in session.
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Gang leader Connie lights up a cigarette as Daly and her knife sit down under a no smoking sign.
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Also present as Meg. Meg asks about the new girl.
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What's her name and is Connie asked her yet?
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Kind of replies Joyce Martin and I'm not going to ask her. I'm going to tell her.
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They haven't had a good initiation in all semester.
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Kind of thinks she'll start Joyce off with the slacks test.
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Daly stabs the bench that she's sitting on with her switchblade and sourly crabs.
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That's too easy.
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Connie says that Daly bugs her and Daly hurls her knife into the door where it sticks.
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And then we have the title where a man is erasing high school hell cats off a chalkboard to make room for the credits.
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Over an insistent jazzy beat.
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Once we're through the credits Connie, Daly, Meg and another girl, Laurie, go to their home at class.
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They're all delighted to find that they have a substitute teacher today.
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A male substitute teaching home at class.
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I'll the sub Mr. Anderson asked the girls to take their seats.
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Where should we take them teach as Connie, which naturally causes the room to roar with laughter?
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I wouldn't say naturally because that's really not that funny.
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He revises his request and asks him to sit down.
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And then does a brief roll call calling new girl Joyce Martin up front to get a card to fill out.
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Then he asks another girl to pass out the books, but what she makes a big dumb show of obsequious obedience.
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But she then starts hurling them at the other girls.
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Anderson asks them to stop throwing the books around.
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And since he cannot restore order, he has to the office for reinforcements.
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Dr. Breaks is gavill on the desk.
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Get a gavill?
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Yeah, you have a gavill.
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He's like whacking it down and then it breaks.
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That's funny.
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Then seeing him cannot quell the shenanigans, gloomly leaves the classroom.
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What's their alone?
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Connie takes the opportunity to make Joyce's acquaintance telling her there's a gang in this school.
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She's the boss.
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Joyce politely says, "Oh, I see."
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Do you wish Connie replies, "What do you see?" Joyce tries to be less literal and says that she understands Connie.
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"I may let you in," says Connie.
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"Thanks, but I start's choice."
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"But what?" asked Connie.
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And Joyce continues.
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"I mean, I'd like to."
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"That is, if you want me."
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Connie says she hasn't decided if she wants her yet.
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Then she tells Joyce that all the girls are wearing slacks tomorrow.
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"Isn't that against the rules?" asked Joyce.
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"I make the rules here," says Connie.
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"Oh, all right then. I'll wear them," says Joyce.
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"Thanks," Connie sarcastically says.
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Then Connie assumes the teacher's place and mucks the subs inadequacy.
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Then, knowing that their time alone is almost up, the girls assume an air of angelic studiousness,
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much to the consternation of Mr. Anderson, who is returned with the principal so that she may witness the female rebellion,
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which is no longer in progress.
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"Nara, Joyce is home and we meet her parents, Roger and Linda.
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They're at breakfast. Roger is reading the warning paper as Linda pours coffee.
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Roger comments that Joyce is always running late.
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Linda thinks Roger picks on her too much, but Roger thinks she just needs more discipline.
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He says she's always wearing those tight sweaters and lipstick."
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Linda knows that Roger is being much harder on his daughter than he usually is.
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And then Joyce sails into the breakfast room and Roger notices that she's wearing pants.
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He says that she never wore them at her old school.
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"I guess they don't mind," he says Joyce.
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Dad groubles that he's getting the car ready, so Joyce should hurry up with her juice.
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Joyce, once he's gone, asks her mom if they just had a fight.
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Joyce says Linda as a warning.
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"Nara, back at the school and the girls are in health class waiting for Joyce to arrive.
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She does and she notices that she's the only person in the room with slacks on."
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"Oh!"
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Connie says they must have all forgotten.
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"But Connie starts Joyce, but what?" asked Connie.
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"You got a complaint to make?
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Then the teacher, Miss Trudy Davis, comes in, so all the girls take their seats."
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Miss Davis starts a power play with Connie over the use of names.
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Connie calls Miss Davis "Teach"
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Miss Davis returns the favor by calling Connie "Hey You."
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Eventually, Connie seeds the battle to her teacher.
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Miss Davis announces that the course is health and physical education.
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But for that subject today, they're going to have an open forum.
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She asks, "What do the girls want to talk about?"
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"Boy," says Meg.
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She wants to know everything on the subject.
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Miss Davis starts with the obvious, telling them that, by allegedly speaking,
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it's a primary importance that man should want to mate.
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The class erupts into, "Oh yeah, that's for sure."
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She goes on to tell the girls of the age-old saying that
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"Man is polygamist by nature, and woman is monogamous, and they all know how far from the truth that is."
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"Come on, Miss Davis," says Daly, "use words we know."
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Daly demands that she dumbed down the message for them.
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Miss Davis asks for someone to go to the chalkboard and then volunteers Joyce to do it.
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Joyce looks sheepish and then complies, revealing her forbidden, trousered legs.
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Miss Davis asks if Joyce knew that that was against the dress code,
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but unfortunately Joyce can't be cool about it.
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She flances over a conny who is giving her a death stare.
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Then Joyce runs out of the room and outside.
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After she leaves, Miss Davis glairs a conny, looking very suspicious.
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Once on-side, Joyce continues on to a small diner where she is the only customer.
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She sits at the counter and orders a coffee.
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She's waited on by Mike Landers.
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He gives her a cup of coffee and asks if she's new here.
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If she's cutting school, and why she's doing so, so soon.
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Joyce asks if Mike owns the place.
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Mike says no, he just works here.
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At that, Joyce asks him to just go back to work and leave her alone.
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She stomps off to a table and he follows, sitting uncomfortably close.
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He says usually the girls travel in packs around here.
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But Joyce denies pack membership.
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Mike says she will one day.
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Joyce says she's not anything like those other girls.
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"Good," says Mike.
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Then she tells them all about the slacks incident.
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That's a crony trick, says Mike.
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Then he offers to top off her coffee.
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He finally introduces himself and Joyce does in turn to him.
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Joyce apologizes for being a creep.
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Why is she apologizing to him?
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He's the one that sat on her lap, basically.
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And Mike says that's all right.
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Joyce asks for Mike's story.
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Mike's studying to be an engineer and he has no family.
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Joyce envies the fact that no one can tell him what to do.
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And he says you could even miss that if you didn't have anyone.
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Joyce info dumps on Mike.
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She's in high school, lives near here, her dad's a lawyer, and she's an only child.
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She doesn't know what she wants to be, but suppose it's that she'll get married someday.
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And that's it.
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No mention of her mother or any meaningful plans.
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Then Joyce says she should be going.
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Mike asks if she'll see her again.
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"Aha," says Joyce.
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"But not during school hours," says Mike.
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He tells her the coffee is on the house and she thinks him and heads for home.
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Joyce goes home where she finds she's a latchkey kid.
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Her mom left a note on the mantle.
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She's out till 7 or 7 30 and Joyce can make a sandwich if she's hungry.
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Joyce is angry at her mom for having a life and so turns on the television and flops down on the couch.
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And she can't have any homeworks. She's only in school for five minutes.
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Roger, her father returns home a bit later to find Joyce to sleep on the couch with the TV still blaring.
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He turns it off and asks where Joyce's mother is.
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The note didn't say, says Joyce.
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Probably her bridge club again grumbles Roger.
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He sits down to read the evening paper, turning his back to Joyce.
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Joyce tries to approach him, but his body language says back off.
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Then Mom Linda arrives home and breezily sails through the living room,
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inquiring whether Joyce ate, yes, if Roger wants some coffee.
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And how Roger's business meeting went.
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Everything worked out all right. He says she goes to get the coffee as the phone rings.
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Joyce answers it and it's Dolly. Dolly invites Joyce to meet her.
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Joyce says she'll be there by 830.
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She hangs up and tells her father she's been invited to a homework party from one of the girls at school.
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Then she runs upstairs.
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Linda returns and tells Roger that the coffee's not ready.
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She tells Roger that if Joyce is going out, she should put on a coat.
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It's very cold out.
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Then Joyce comes back downstairs, wearing a slip to ask her mother where her purple sweater is.
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Roger sees her and reminds her that he's told her not to walk around the house like that.
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Now go and get dressed, he says.
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But dad, it's only a slip.
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Now go upstairs and put something on.
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But dad, you heard what I said, Shouts Roger, as he slaps Joyce across the face.
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Joyce looks at her father, shocked. Then she runs back upstairs.
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Just then Mom Linda comes back with a laden coffee tray.
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Linda asks Roger why he just hit his daughter.
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But Roger has no explanation.
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I have one, but it's not very charitable.
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Something really wrong about this scene.
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Now I see Joyce outside in an abandoned theater.
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She apparently gave up the idea of wearing whatever the slip was going to be under.
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And she's wearing petal pushers and a sweater.
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She skulks around the theater, then finds a way in through an inadequately boarded up window.
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Once Joyce is inside, Dali jumps out and shines a light and Joyce's face.
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You ever been in an abandoned movie house before?
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Ask Dali?
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It's spooky.
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It feels like it's about to come to life. Then Dali tells Joyce that Connie and the other girls are upstairs.
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All the girls are there.
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Joyce is given Lori's seat right next to Connie.
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Connie declares that this is going to be a short meeting.
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She introduces Joyce to the gang and then says that Joyce passed the first test of three.
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When she passes all of them, she can join the Hellcats.
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That's their gang.
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Connie explains the perks of membership.
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If she's accepted, she can have a social life.
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If not, no parties, no friends, and no dates with boys, they'll see you to that.
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Connie says that Joyce will find the Hellcats will be a home away from home.
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That is, unless you decide you don't need us, says Connie.
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I guess I do need a club like this, says Joyce.
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Connie continues saying that even if Joyce passes her initiation,
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there are certain requirements to maintain membership.
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One, they don't like eggheads.
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So if she absolutely has to pass her classes to stay out of trouble at home, it's okay,
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as long as she doesn't do any better than D's.
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The second, they don't like teacher's pets.
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The only teacher they're allowed to show respect to is Miss Davis.
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And three, remember this place. Don't tell anyone about it.
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And next time, bring your own flashlight, then Connie dismisses the group, reminding everyone to not study where they get home.
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Everyone leaves except for Joyce and Dali.
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Dali pulls a bottle out of a paper sack and makes Joyce do a shot.
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They laugh as she chokes on the hooch.
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Then Connie asks Joyce if she's ever stolen anything.
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And of course she hasn't.
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So Connie says, you'll learn.
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She tells Joyce to meet her and Dali tomorrow after school.
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The next afternoon, Connie, Dali and Joyce convene in front of a jeweler's store
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and the three girls go inside.
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Connie speaks with the clerk while Dali and Joyce head to the back of the store.
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They pick up items and place them in their purses, then walk out.
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Connie ends her conversation and follows them out the door.
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And they go to Mike's coffee house.
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I know it's not his, but I don't know what else to call it.
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Mike sees Joyce, but Joyce pretends not to see him.
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He spots the earrings that got boosted and picks them up to admire them.
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Connie says they're out early Christmas shopping.
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Mike greets Joyce by name, but she doesn't engage.
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After he goes, Connie wants to know how he knew her name.
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Joyce explains that she came in there the day she cut class.
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Connie calls him a wise guy and tells Joyce to stay away from him.
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Joyce doesn't argue.
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Then Connie admires the trinket that Joyce came away with after their heist.
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Not bad for a beginner, she says.
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She had a good teacher, snorts Dali.
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Okay, I'll give you a medal, says Connie.
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Then Connie gets up to leave telling Joyce to take care of the check.
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Dali glumly finishes sipping her coffee as Joyce goes to the register.
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Mike loudly asked her to go for a ride tonight.
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Joyce loudly declines and then the son of Oceae says,
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she'll meet him there tonight at eight.
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She goes back to the table and then she and Dali leave.
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So next we see Mike and Joyce laying on a blanket in front of a weird projection of a beach.
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It seems to be nighttime and the tide is coming in.
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It seems to be nighttime, except it's pretty well lit for nighttime on the beach.
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If there is a light coming from the side that makes Joyce's head cast a huge shadow on Mike's face.
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Mike asked Joyce about what went on in the diner earlier tonight.
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Mike asked Joyce why she distanced him at the diner tonight.
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Joyce says she didn't think Connie would approve.
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Joyce playfully offers Mike a home cook meal, but must take it back.
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Her parents don't know about him yet.
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Is this not their first date?
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Joyce says that her parents don't like her dating.
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Oh, I see, says Mike.
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Boys are out, but stealing's in.
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Joyce says she didn't steal anything.
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She explains that she left money on the counter to pay for the earrings she took, so it wasn't really stealing.
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She says she knows how Mike feels about the club she's in, and he's probably right, but she needs this.
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Someone like him just wouldn't understand.
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What do you mean someone like me, ask Mike?
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Joyce says it's because Mike is so secure.
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Mike doesn't agree.
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He's on his own and she has parents.
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Joyce says with her home life, she might as well be renting a room.
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Her parents just don't care about her.
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Mike says he's heard that before, but Joyce says she and the other girls really don't have caring families.
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If their parents actually showed interest in them, well, Mike says he doesn't want his girl hanging out with that crowd.
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Am I your girl?
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Ask Joyce.
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What do you think says Mike smothering her with his face?
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[Laughter]
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So is this their first date?
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Is under the impression.
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I was under the impression too, but now the girl gang is out in the school yard sitting under a tree.
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Connie tells Joyce about her final test.
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She points out a couple leaning against a tree across the yard.
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The boy is rip and the girl is Terry.
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Connie tells Joyce to go to rip and ask him to take her to a dance next Saturday night.
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Joyce pretends that she doesn't even know the guy.
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So introduce yourself, Connie says.
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So Joyce goes over to rip.
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Terry doesn't like Joyce moving in on her guy, but rip wants to hear Joyce out.
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Joyce explains that she's a member of the Hellcats and she'd like to invite Rip to a party.
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He asks Rip and pick her up and Joyce tells Rip to check with Connie for the deets.
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Then Joyce scampers off and Terry asks Rip what's up with that.
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"Hey, I don't know you nothing," says Rip.
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So Rip and Terry break up, I guess.
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Joyce goes back to report her success to Connie, saying that Rip would get with her for the details.
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Connie tells Joyce that with that go-getting attitude, she might get bumped up to the number two Hellcat.
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Dali standing next to them, japs her knife into the tree.
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Connie tells Joyce that she and Rip will pick her up next Saturday night at 8.
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Joyce scampers off and Dali unsticks her knife from the tree.
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Saturday afternoon, Joyce leaves her house to be picked up by Mike.
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He has to park next door because Joyce's parents still don't know about him.
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Joyce suggests they go to the beach.
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"We've been to the beach," says Mike, but not in the daylight, says Joyce.
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"Okay," says Mike, "it's a good idea. We'll make a day of it. Dinner in a movie."
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"That's a long day. Dinner in a movie and the beach?"
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"They're young. They have more energy than we do."
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But Joyce says she has to be back by six because she has to go to a party.
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One that he's not invited to. It's a party with Connie in the gang.
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Mike complains, but Joyce doesn't want to hear it.
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He sounds like her father and she doesn't need another man telling her what to do.
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Mike tells her that if she's ditching him on a Saturday night, it might as well not spend the day together either.
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Joyce says that she's had all she can take from him today, I'll tune a half minutes of it.
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And then Mike asks Joyce who she's really going to the party with.
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Joyce gets out of the car and says that he knows where to find her when he's really too apologize.
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"And you know how to reach me?" says Mike, pealing out in his car.
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Inside the Martin home, Linda is looking at travel rosters while Roger is busy with his usual routine of reading the paper.
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Linda suggests it might be nice if the two of them took a trip together.
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But Roger is concerned about Joyce.
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She's too young to stay by herself, he says, and besides, he would want Joyce to go with them.
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Linda says she was hoping that the two of them could go alone, but Roger's firm.
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If Joyce isn't going, then neither is he.
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And he doesn't wish to discuss the matter any further.
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Joyce comes downstairs in a pretty dress, and dad immediately starts in on the lipstick.
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"Why are you kids in such a hurry to grow up?" he asks.
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Roger and Linda sure do their part to make it a very unappealing prospect.
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Then he asks where she's going and yells at her for not telling him about the party.
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Why didn't you say something about it before, asked Roger?
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Probably because you're never around, and when you are, you never want to talk, sobs Joyce.
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She told Meteor, says Linda.
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Roger asks Joyce if she's going with a boy.
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"No," says Joyce, "with a man."
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And she storms out.
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See what I mean, asked Roger.
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Linda tells him that Roger created this problem, so now he has to cope with it.
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Now it's party time.
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All the high school kids are in someone's living room dancing, drinking, and dancing.
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Rip, Connie, Connie State, Freddie, and Joyce come in.
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Connie insists they drink up, so Rip orders Freddie to make her a drink over Joyce's mild objection.
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Then Freddie and Connie go exploring.
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Rip suggests that he enjoys going with them, but Joyce says no.
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Then Rip asks Joyce to dance, and again, Joyce says no.
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It's too crowded.
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Some day you are, and complains Rip.
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Well then maybe you should get yourself another one, Snaps Joyce.
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Rip says he will, and then goes to separate Meg from her date.
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Valley swoops in to claim the leftover boy.
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Joyce assumes the wallflower position and hides her undrunk drink behind some brickabrock on the mantle.
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And then Chuck comes up to pull Joyce onto the dance floor, but she shakes him off.
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Then Connie and Freddie come back into the room.
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Freddie has an idea for a game.
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It's called Sardines.
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He has a deck of cards, and he's going to pass them out to all the boys.
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Then they'll turn out the lights, and everyone has to identify as many people as they can in the dark.
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Well it's whoever has the Ace of Spades is supposed to be doing it.
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That's what he says, but that's not what happens.
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That's not how they play you know.
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No.
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So I don't know what all this setup was about.
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It's basically just a round of non-consensual grouping.
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Yeah, the lights go out, and everyone gets touchy-feely.
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Once again Joyce has to fight off Chuck, that boy that won its dance.
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Everyone else seems to be having fun though.
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That is until we hear the sound of a scream followed by something heavy falling down the stairs.
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Turn on the lights, shots rip.
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They see the basement door is open, and Rip looks and sees Connie has fallen down the stairwell.
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Freddie says she must have been trying to hide and thought that was a closet.
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Rip runs down the check-on her, then goes back up to report that Connie's dead.
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Joyce gasps.
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Rick demands that someone turn off that record that's been playing the whole time.
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And then he takes control.
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He tells them all to go home or wherever they're going, and that they're to tell no one anything.
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They were never here. Then he tells Freddie Connie's shell-shocked date that they need to clean up the place.
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So indeed it looks like they were never there.
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Oh wow, the boys are cleaning up after a party.
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So the boys clean up as Joyce stands there watching.
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Once they've finished, Rip tells her to come on, they'll take her home.
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But what about Connie, yes Joyce?
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What about her, says Rip.
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Rip says the cops are already too hard on them, and there's no way to explain this.
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Especially since they broke into party here.
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Joyce is a gas to be a party to this break-in.
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Rip explains that the people who lived there were out of town, and that they've been waiting on long time for them to leave so that they can throw a party.
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But the hell cats beat him to it.
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So they can't do anything about Connie without being charged for breaking and entering and trespassing.
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And maybe murder.
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Rip and Freddie hustle Joyce out of there, and then they run her home and rip's gelopy.
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They drop her off, but Rip parks down at the end of the street.
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Rip doesn't trust her to not run to the cops.
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No telling when a nervous chick like that might do.
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It looks like their suspicions are valid because she doesn't go inside her house.
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No, as she goes to the door, Mike pulls up.
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He apologizes for arguing with her earlier in the evening, and she says she's sorry to, and that they should put it all behind them.
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Mike invites her for a hamburger.
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It's not too late.
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And Joyce accepts.
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Yeah, she could really use a burger right about now.
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What with the tragic death at all?
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Joyce gets into the car, and they drive off.
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But Rip follows them and pulls in front of Mike, causing Mike to pull over.
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They're in front of a park.
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Rip and Freddie get out of their car and pull Mike out of his, and they do get out there in the park.
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As Joyce watches helplessly in her car, they're really not that far from Joyce's house.
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They're basically across the street.
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Mike knocks out Freddie and disables Rip and tells them that they're going to the cops.
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But Joyce intervenes.
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She tells Mike that she knows that she knows the boys from school and she should just let them go.
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They tried to mug me, counters, Mike.
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But Joyce again asked that Mike let them go.
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They can just go back to his place and she'll fix his face and Mike agrees.
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Rip leaves with an unconscious Freddie and Joyce and Mike go back to his place.
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After having his wounds cleaned from the fight, Mike comments on Joyce's choice of friends.
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And Joyce says that they're not friends.
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They were just at the party.
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They drove you home, you mean, says Mike.
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And Joyce starts to cry.
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She's sorry, she even went to that party.
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She tells him the party was bad, but won't tell them why.
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Just vaguely mentions that everyone was acting crazy there.
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She just wanted to be with him.
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And this earns Mike's concern.
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And apparently lack of suspicion.
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At Joyce's house, Roger the dad is in a fit.
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He didn't spend all that money bringing up Joyce just to have her go out into wild parties.
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Mom Linda tells him to calm down and talks him out of calling the police,
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saying that it would only make him look ridiculous.
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Now we're back at Mike's place.
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Joyce is asleep on Mike's lap and he's smoking a cigarette.
462
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,000
Joyce wakes up and realizes that she's got to get home.
463
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,000
It's late.
464
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,000
She starts to rush out, but Mike suggests she put on her shoes first.
465
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000
She sheepishly turns around and puts them on.
466
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,000
Back at home, Roger and Linda are pacing around the room,
467
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000
still waiting for Joyce to return.
468
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,000
She hears Joyce come in and Linda asks Roger not to be too harsh on her.
469
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,000
Joyce starts upstairs, and Roger calls her into the room.
470
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,000
He tells her that she's out of control.
471
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,000
Joyce protests that coming home late one night doesn't mean she's out of control.
472
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000
But Roger says from now on, she's on a strict schedule,
473
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,000
and she's not to go out without letting them know how long and with whom.
474
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,000
Joyce says no.
475
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,000
Joyce tells her flabbergasted father that children have rights too,
476
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,000
as well as responsibilities.
477
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000
Then she runs up the stairs.
478
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,000
Roger goes to Linda to confirm that she also thinks that Joyce is in the wrong,
479
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000
but Linda also says no.
480
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,000
If Roger wants respect, you should give it.
481
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,000
Children are individuals, and we tend to forget that.
482
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,000
Roger wonders when Linda became so psychological.
483
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,000
Linda says that they need to try to understand their daughter.
484
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,000
Roger knows she's right.
485
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000
He doesn't know why he flies off the handle like that.
486
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,000
Linda tells them to go to bed, they can straighten all this out in the morning.
487
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,000
At school on Monday, the surviving health cats,
488
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,000
Dali Meg-Lori, Joyce, and the others are convening in the school yard.
489
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,000
Dali tells the others it's been a day and a half since Connie disappeared.
490
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,000
The police will be around soon, asking questions.
491
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,000
So she reminds them to say that they haven't seen Connie since Friday afternoon.
492
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000
Lori says they're liable to get into deeper trouble if they lie about what happened.
493
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,000
But Dali shuts her down, saying she and Connie organized the health cats,
494
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,000
and now Dali is taking over.
495
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,000
Dali also says that she believes that Connie didn't just fall.
496
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,000
She was pushed.
497
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,000
And when she finds out who did it, she glairs at all of them,
498
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000
then she tells them all to scatter and they all leave.
499
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000
Except for Meg and Joyce, who stay behind to go over what just happened.
500
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,000
Meg confesses that Dali scares her.
501
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:38,000
Meg thinks that Dali might be off her rocker, but says whoever pushed Connie is the one who should really be scared.
502
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,000
Joyce asks Meg if Dali really thinks that Connie was pushed.
503
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,000
Dali doesn't think Meg says she decides.
504
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:48,000
Now when Miss Davis is health class, and she's called away by the principal,
505
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000
and Miss Davis asks Meg to wash the class.
506
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,000
Miss Davis goes into the teacher's lounge to meet with police lieutenant Manners.
507
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,000
He offers a cigarette, she declines, but doesn't mind if he lights up.
508
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,000
And Manners asks Miss Davis about Connie Harris.
509
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000
Miss Davis offers that she's in her class, but she's absent today.
510
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000
She's more than that says Manners.
511
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,000
She's missing.
512
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,000
He explains that her mother class saw Connie, leaving for a party Saturday night,
513
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,000
and he would like to question some of the students.
514
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000
Some of her friends might have details about the party.
515
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,000
Miss Davis tells them that Connie was in a group called the Hellcats,
516
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000
and most of them are in her class.
517
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,000
Manners asks if she can send them in to speak with them when at a time.
518
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000
Only don't tell them why.
519
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,000
And after he's spoken to all the girls, he'd like to see Miss Davis again.
520
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,000
Miss Davis returns to her class and chooses Meg to be the first to chat with the cop.
521
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,000
But doesn't tell her why.
522
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000
Dali scowls at her anyways.
523
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,000
In the teacher's lounge, Meg tells the lieutenant Manners that she last saw Connie Friday afternoon,
524
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,000
and when she didn't come to school this morning, Meg just figured Connie was sick.
525
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,000
Manners asks about the party on Saturday, and Meg plays dumb.
526
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000
If there was a party, Meg wasn't invited.
527
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000
Wasn't one of your club's socials he asks?
528
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,000
No, sir.
529
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000
If it were, we all would have been invited.
530
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,000
That's all the questions from Meg.
531
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,000
Manners asks her to have Miss Davis send in another girl.
532
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,000
Meg returns to class and says that he'd like to see another girl.
533
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,000
Dali looks very concerned at this point, but Joyce is the next to go in.
534
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000
Joyce knows nothing about any party.
535
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,000
She does however tell him that Dali and Connie are especially close.
536
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,000
So detective Manners asks her to send Dali in next.
537
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,000
Joyce returns to the classroom and announces that it's Dali's turn.
538
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000
Dali slowly stands up.
539
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,000
What's he asking?
540
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,000
She asks Joyce.
541
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000
But Miss Davis tells her there will be no discussions on the matter.
542
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,000
Dali goes to the teacher's lounge and Manners invites her in and asks her to take a seat.
543
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000
He says that one of her classmates has disappeared.
544
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,000
Why do you want to talk to me?
545
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,000
Ask Dali.
546
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,000
Because she's a friend of yours as Manners.
547
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,000
He tells her it's Connie and Dali doesn't seem too surprised about it.
548
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,000
Well, who said she's missing as Dali?
549
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,000
She hasn't been seen since Saturday when she left home dressed for a party, says Manners.
550
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:46,000
Then he asks Dali about the party and she says that she and Connie are best friends.
551
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,000
If Connie were going to a party, Dali would have known about it.
552
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,000
Detective Manners asks if Connie had any enemies.
553
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,000
And Dali says no.
554
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,000
Connie was a regular guy.
555
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,000
Detective Manners seizes on Dali's use of the past tense.
556
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000
Dali snarls at him to leave her alone.
557
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,000
She didn't do anything.
558
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,000
She doesn't know anything.
559
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:07,000
The tenant Manners tells her that she's been helpful and then sends her back with instructions to send Miss Davis back in.
560
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000
When Miss Davis comes in, Manners goes over his notes with her.
561
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000
Joyce Martin seems like a good kid.
562
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,000
And Dali referred to Connie in the past tense, which is a little strange.
563
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,000
But other than that, her story is all match up.
564
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,000
Only question three girls.
565
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,000
It's either the truth or a well-organized lie.
566
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,000
Then he asks Miss Davis about her rapport with the girls.
567
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,000
She says that they trust her.
568
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,000
He asks if any of them might come to her if they have a problem.
569
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,000
I don't know, says Miss Davis.
570
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,000
They have before.
571
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,000
Manners thinks they may just do that again and ask that she finds out anything to give him a call.
572
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000
And he leaves her his card.
573
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,000
Now with Mike and Joyce in the car in front of her house.
574
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,000
Her down the street.
575
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,000
Joyce says that the play was swell and she really liked his friends.
576
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,000
Mike's glad she likes his friends because she's going to be seeing a lot more of them.
577
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,000
Then he asks why she didn't tell him about the police coming to school.
578
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000
And Joyce lies about everything.
579
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,000
She didn't talk to the cops and she never saw Connie at that party.
580
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,000
Then plot point radio comes on to issue a bulletin.
581
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:06,000
The body of the missing girl Connie Harris was discovered in a locked home of a vacationing couple.
582
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000
We turned to find her body at the foot of the stairs.
583
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,000
No further information available on what she was doing in a locked house at this time.
584
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000
Mike says that whatever did happen to Connie she asked for it.
585
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000
How can you say that?
586
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,000
It was an accident, says Joyce.
587
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,000
It was no accident that she was in that locked house, he says.
588
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000
He feels that way about all the gang members.
589
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,000
But not her though.
590
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000
Joyce says that she knows he doesn't mean her.
591
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,000
And then begs to go in her house.
592
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,000
She's tired.
593
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000
He kisses her goodbye and she gets out of the car through the window.
594
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,000
She tells him that she's quitting the health cats.
595
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:39,000
Mike's pleased to hear this and pleased to hear that she wasn't involved in whatever happened to Connie.
596
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,000
It's said goodbye and Joyce heads to her front door after Mike has driven away.
597
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,000
Joyce changes course and heads over to Miss Davis's house.
598
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,000
Miss Davis is serving coffee while wondering why students visiting her at home at this time of night.
599
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,000
Joyce says she just needed talk and Miss Davis asked her her parents know where she is.
600
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,000
Joyce says no, so Miss Davis offers to call her parents so they won't worry.
601
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,000
She calls Joyce's house and Linda answers.
602
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,000
She explains what's going on and that Joyce is there.
603
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,000
Linda says that she and Miss Davis simply must get together.
604
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:10,000
But she's busy at all the times Miss Davis suggests which upsets Joyce.
605
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,000
She's listening in.
606
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,000
Miss Davis promises to send Joyce home in a taxi and then hangs up.
607
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,000
But she had a bridge game Snark's Joyce.
608
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,000
Miss Davis says she didn't say why she couldn't meet.
609
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000
Then Miss Davis asks Joyce if she's heard that they found Connie's body.
610
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,000
"Oh? Where?" asked Joyce.
611
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,000
"In a locked house in the hill," says Miss Davis.
612
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,000
Joyce starts grabbing her thing saying she's got to go.
613
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:37,000
Miss Davis tries to slow her down asking if she knows anything about Connie and if there was a party Saturday night.
614
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,000
Joyce asks her please do not ask any more questions and she runs out of the house.
615
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,000
"But your taxi," she shouts at her, retreating form.
616
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,000
"Now we're Miss Davis's class but nobody is there except Dolly.
617
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,000
Joyce comes in, seeing that Dolly's writing a note to leave on her desk.
618
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,000
Dolly says that she can just tell her now.
619
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,000
There's an emergency meeting of the hill cats tonight.
620
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000
But she's not to discuss it with anybody.
621
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,000
Dolly says she tried to call Joyce last night.
622
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,000
"Where were you?" she asks.
623
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,000
Joyce says she was on a date.
624
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,000
"With the cops, Dolly screams?"
625
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,000
Joyce tells Dolly to not be so smart.
626
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,000
But Dolly has to be so smart now."
627
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,000
Then Joyce confesses that she wants to quit the hill cats.
628
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,000
"Oh," says Dolly.
629
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,000
"We'll talk about it tonight.
630
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,000
Can I just quit right now?" has Joyce.
631
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,000
"No," says Dolly.
632
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000
"There are certain things that need to be settled first.
633
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,000
You be there."
634
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,000
So that evening, Mike is driving Joyce to her final hill cats meeting.
635
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,000
He's disappointed that she hasn't quit yet.
636
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,000
And she tells them that this is just a formality.
637
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,000
Where they're going is just a few more blocks down the road.
638
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000
And she promises not to be more than 10 minutes.
639
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,000
Now we're back at Miss Davis's house, where she gets two more visitors.
640
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,000
Megan, Laurie, the girl with the tragic bangs.
641
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,000
They don't have much time.
642
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,000
They tell her that Joyce is in trouble.
643
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,000
They went through Joyce's things and found out that Dolly set up a meeting with just Joyce.
644
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000
And Miss Davis makes them all spill as to why this would be bad for Joyce.
645
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,000
Megan, Laurie, tell Miss Davis all about the abandoned movie house.
646
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,000
And for the all attended that party that Saturday night.
647
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000
Kanye had fallen down the stairs, but Dolly suspected she was pushed.
648
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,000
And she said she was going to find out who did it and get them.
649
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,000
And they're afraid that she thinks that Joyce did it.
650
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,000
Why didn't you tell this to the police, Asmiss Davis?
651
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,000
The girls say Dolly told them not to say anything, and the police wouldn't believe them anyway.
652
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000
Well, I'm afraid that was a mistake, says Ms. Davis, bringing to the phone.
653
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,000
She caused the tenant manners and catches them up on the information of which she's just learned.
654
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,000
Now we're with Mike who's dropping off Joyce in front of the theater.
655
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,000
He promises that after 10 minutes he's coming in after her, no matter what.
656
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:28,000
Joyce goes into the theater and climbs the stairs to find only Dolly there.
657
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,000
Joyce figures out instantly that she's in danger and runs for it.
658
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000
But Dolly chases Joyce to the edge of the balcony.
659
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,000
Joyce wants to know what's up with Dolly.
660
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,000
Dolly tells Joyce what she suspects her pushing Kanye down the stairs.
661
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,000
And that she knows Joyce wants to frame Dolly for the crime.
662
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:47,000
Dolly tells Joyce that it's not just a coincidence that the police asked for Dolly by name after questioning Joyce.
663
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:52,000
Joyce says she only said that Dolly and Kanye were best friends, but Dolly has more.
664
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,000
What about the night she had that date and the police found Kanye the same night?
665
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,000
Dolly says she knows that Joyce pushed Kanye down the stairs and is trying to blame Dolly for it.
666
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,000
You're a crazy, shout's Joyce.
667
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,000
Don't say that. Don't ever say that, yells Dolly as she chases after Joyce.
668
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,000
But Dolly has her corner.
669
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,000
The cops arrive at the theater and Mike joins them when they go in upstairs in the balcony.
670
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,000
Dolly is pressing Joyce to the edge and tells her that she has to get rid of her.
671
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,000
Joyce knows who pushed Kanye.
672
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,000
Sweet simple Joyce doesn't know though. So Dolly feels her in.
673
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,000
Dolly was convinced that Kanye liked Joyce better than Dolly.
674
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,000
So Dolly showed Kanye down the stairs and now she's going to fix Joyce.
675
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,000
She pulls on her switchblade and lunges at Joyce.
676
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:37,000
But Joyce dodges and Dolly falls over the balcony, screaming all the way, landing with a thud on the floor below.
677
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,000
The cops rush in to find her there.
678
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,000
Lieutenant Manor checks for a pulse and then calls up to see if Joyce is okay.
679
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,000
Joyce says she is.
680
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:49,000
Miss Davis, Meg and Laurie rush into the theater but the cops stop them from getting too close to Dolly's body.
681
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,000
Mike winds up to the balcony and he enjoys some brace.
682
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000
He tells her it's all right, it's all over now.
683
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:59,000
She tells him it was horrible and Mike tells her to go down and tell the police all about it.
684
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,000
They go down and she starts to confess to the police what Dolly told her.
685
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:07,000
But Lieutenant Manor tells her to go home and get some rest and to come in tomorrow and tell everything.
686
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Mike asks the cops if she's in trouble.
687
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,000
But Lieutenant Manor doesn't think so.
688
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:16,000
But he does chastise Joyce for letting things get this bad when she should have just told them about the party in the first place.
689
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:21,000
Mike takes Joyce down to his car and Miss Davis goes to a pay phone to let Joyce's parents know what happened.
690
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,000
She tells them that the boy bringing her home is Mike Landers.
691
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,000
He's a nice and trustworthy boy and she says that she and Linda must get together soon.
692
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000
And Linda agrees.
693
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,000
Then we're in front of Joyce's house.
694
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,000
Mike walks Joyce to her door as her parents open it.
695
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,000
Roger and Linda embrace their daughter.
696
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:41,000
Then Linda and Joyce go in the house before Mike and leave Roger.
697
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Those are my random and pulls him into the house as well and that's the end.
698
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:55,000
We were listening to the American International podcast and we're discussing high school health cats from 1958.
699
00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:04,000
In January of 1958, the Los Angeles mirror announced that American international pictures had signed a contract with buddy Rogers and Ferd Grove Jr. to produce two films.
700
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:09,000
High school health cats and what the paper called hot rod rock with filming in February and March respectively.
701
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:17,000
Mark McGee and his faster and furious her book so that actress Mary Pickford who was married to Rogers put up $100,000 to fund each film.
702
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:26,000
High school health cats started shooting in April of 1958 shooting to place in Los Angeles at several private homes according to the Los Angeles Evening Citizen News.
703
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:33,000
In the book location filming in Los Angeles, the author said that filming took place on Comstock Avenue in Home Be Hills with Home Be Park in the background.
704
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:43,000
On April 11th, 1958, Mike Connelly in his syndicated column announced that that cool cat Ivan Lyme signed to star in American International High School health cats.
705
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:49,000
On April 15th, a blurb in the Los Angeles mirror announced that Tommy Cook would have a featured role in high school health cats.
706
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,000
Later that month, the editions of Robert Anderson and Arthur Marshall to the cast were announced.
707
00:34:53,000 --> 00:35:00,000
High school health cats was released in June of 1958 on a double bill with hot rod gang taglines for high school health cats include.
708
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,000
What must a good girl do to belong to a taboo sorority?
709
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000
Good girls gone bad.
710
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,000
And for the double feature, double sock rock and thrill show.
711
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,000
Proud young rebels, the true story of today's youth.
712
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:24,000
In Erskine Johnson syndicated column published April 21st, 1958, equipped Hollywoodites are talking about the forthcoming double bill that should tee off the PTA.
713
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000
Hot Rod Gang and high school health cats.
714
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:32,000
The film was indeed condemned by PTA groups in Los Angeles, along with his co-feature hot rod gang.
715
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:37,000
However, the Catholic League of Decency declared it morally unobjectionable for adults only.
716
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:49,000
In October 1958, at an American International Pictures Luncheon for the Theatre Owners Association of America, producer Jerry Wald said that pictures like high school health cats are not the type of picture on which we can build the market of the future.
717
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,000
While they may make a few dollars today, they will destroy us tomorrow.
718
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:59,000
James H. Nicholson responded by stating, "I'd rather take my children to see these pictures than God's little Lager."
719
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,000
Samuel Z. Arkoff, who was also present, was more cutting.
720
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:14,000
After first telling Wald that he hoped he enjoyed the lunch that A.I.P. paid for, he reminded the producer that his own patent place contained as much, if not more, in decency as it depicted incest, rape and murder.
721
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:20,000
Teresa Loeb Cohen of the Oakland Tribune gave a brief review of both films, brief because she didn't watch either in its entirety.
722
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:28,000
"Having seen only a portion of high school health cats in Hot Rod Gang, I can only report that they share a general phoniness as to characterization and story.
723
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:33,000
Using mostly little known players in the cast, the films are obviously aimed at stirring teenage audience support.
724
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:38,000
Perhaps these films will be interesting to adolescents, but what I witnessed was a bore."
725
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:49,000
Mark Dury Adams in the Boston Globe also reviewed both halves of the double feature, saying, "If teenagers all over the country were as depicted in high school health cats in Hot Rod Gang, it would auger badly for the future of America.
726
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:54,000
Fortunately, these are mere sensational plots of teenage activities in limited youthful circles.
727
00:36:54,000 --> 00:37:04,000
She called health cats "childish melodrama" for the most part that solves no juvenile delinquency problems, and concluded to the youngsters in the audience, "Everything seems to make sense."
728
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:11,000
The grownups didn't seem to react in any way whatsoever, neither appreciating the immature gags or worrying visibly about the misadventures of the kids.
729
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:24,000
Jack Moffitt in the Hollywood Reporter wrote, "I found the teenage audience so enthusiastically and vociferously on the side of virtue that I left the theater comfortably reassured concerning the next generation, and more than a little inspired.
730
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,000
High school health cats has strong appeal for young audiences, and it leases them."
731
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:34,000
Director Edward Burns gladly sold his pieces of high school health cats and reform schoolgirls to television, according to McGee.
732
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:40,000
I never made a dime on those pictures until they sold the TV. Burns is quoted as saying, "They told me they never went into profit."
733
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,000
He said of Arkoff and Nicholson.
734
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:48,000
So, surely, we didn't find a lot when we researched this film, which is kind of interesting, because I feel like there's a lot to be said about it.
735
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:58,000
I think so too, although it is the standard AIP morality play where yes, they're juvenile gangs and they do bad things, but it's really the fault of the parents.
736
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:02,000
And if the parents would only pay attention to their kids, none of this would have ever happened.
737
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Yeah, they drive that point really hard when they have a choice expressed that, of course, I'm in a gang, I'm ignored at home.
738
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:16,000
And she is. And her dad's a jerk, and there's possibly more going on there. His reaction to seeing her in a slip was way over the top.
739
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:22,000
He actually smacked her in the way that he wanted to vacation, not with his wife, but with his wife and daughter.
740
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,000
And he was so insistent on it, it gave me some real bad vibes. I don't know if you picked up on that.
741
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:32,000
Yeah, I'm kind of inclined to think that those were dropped in to give those bad vibes.
742
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:40,000
I don't know if they would be picked up by everyone, but I think watching us in 2026 as we did it, it's certainly easy to pick up on those.
743
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:48,000
Yeah, and I think you're right that it's deliberate because she was wearing that slip for no reason really, she ended up wearing pants.
744
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:57,000
And she was going to wear a sweater and whatever underneath. She didn't need to stroll through in her slip, but they did have her do that, just so her dad could react so violently.
745
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,000
So yeah, I think you're right about that.
746
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,000
I do want to mention that Evon Lyme recently passed away as we were recording this.
747
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:09,000
In fact, after we watched this the first time, I immediately got online and found out that she had passed that day.
748
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:15,000
Yeah, that was shocking. And it was also surprising to find out that she lived not that far from us.
749
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,000
No, she was just a couple of miles away.
750
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:22,000
All this time we've been in the same town as Evon Lyme, who I think is adorable in this movie.
751
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:26,000
Oh, she is. She's almost a cartoon character because she's so, oh my.
752
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:32,000
She's so innocent and sweet and stupid and terrible, terrible liar.
753
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,000
But she gets away with it.
754
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,000
And she's absolutely adorable. You're right.
755
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:41,000
That's why she gets away with it. She's just so beautiful and sweet and everything.
756
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,000
Yeah, we previously saw her and I was a teenage werewolf, of course.
757
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:49,000
And I don't think her character was that gosh darn cute.
758
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:55,000
It might just be the ponytail making a difference because she had kind of a more well kept do in that film.
759
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,000
Right, but she also wasn't the star of that movie. She's the star of this movie.
760
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,000
It's all about her. It's her story.
761
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:06,000
And I think when you get the lead role, you get a little more to your character than just the girlfriend of the werewolf.
762
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:12,000
I do want to mention we are going to see her in one more film from a IP because she appears in drag strip riot as well.
763
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:17,000
We still have a few more of these juvenile delinquent movies to get there even though it seems like we've watched so many of them.
764
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000
We didn't see hot rod gang yet either.
765
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,000
Yeah, but there's still a handful of them left to go.
766
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,000
And that's good because these are kind of my favorite of the a IP genres.
767
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:30,000
Well, that in the black exploitation movies, but these are just so simple and sweet.
768
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:37,000
A lot of predictable stuff happens, but it's just fun to watch them go through all the motions of this teenage rebellion.
769
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,000
Yeah, I like these ones too.
770
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:43,000
And I think it's just the amount of melodrama in these short black and white films at a IP put out.
771
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,000
The drama is just so over the top and it's fun to watch.
772
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,000
I agree.
773
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:54,000
What I thought was interesting about this one that is different from the others is that on the surface seems like our main antagonist is going to be Connie in this movie.
774
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,000
But then she gets killed halfway through and then you discovered that wait a minute.
775
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:02,000
It was Dolly who was the main bad girl in this case all along.
776
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:09,000
And you should have seen that from the beginning because if you look at her face, you can see that Connie has nothing on her in terms of badness.
777
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,000
She is unhinged.
778
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,000
And Dolly was played by Suzanne Sidney who we've also seen before.
779
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,000
She played birdie in motorcycle gang prior to her appearance in high school Hellcats.
780
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,000
And there she was basically a fat joke in that movie.
781
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,000
Although she was very cute in that.
782
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,000
I thought the movie did her dirty.
783
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:35,000
She's very funny in that Suzanne Sidney's next and final appearance in an A.I.P. film, according to IMDB is Angels from Hell, where she plays the character of Buff and is credited as Ginger Snap.
784
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,000
So we will be looking at that sometime in the future on American International podcast.
785
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,000
Well, another familiar face was Brett Halsey.
786
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,000
We saw him fairly recently and where does it hurt when you played Dr. Kwagliomo.
787
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,000
That was in the 70s.
788
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,000
So this is one of his earlier roles.
789
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:55,000
We did two other A.I.P. films that we haven't done yet, Summarine Seahawken spying your eye.
790
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,000
So we'll be seeing more of him too.
791
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:00,000
I always think of him as the romantic lead.
792
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:05,000
I guess you could call him in the movie The Girl in Lovers Lane, which was featured on Mr. Siser 3000.
793
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,000
And his name in that movie is Big Stoogin.
794
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,000
But immediately the MST3K guys started calling him Big Stupid.
795
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,000
And so now every time I see him, I'm like, "Oh, Big Stupid's in this."
796
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,000
That's another good teenage melodrama movie, but not A.I.P.
797
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:25,000
Linda, the mom character in this, it seemed like the movie was trying to assassinate her character
798
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:31,000
because she had a life and she wasn't devoting herself to her child and husband 24/7.
799
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:37,000
Every time she was busy doing something for herself, she's basically getting the approbation of the movie
800
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,000
through her daughter, through her husband, through Miss Davis.
801
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,000
Anytime she's too busy to be at the back and call of her 17-year-old child,
802
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:50,000
the movie basically "Crap's Honor." I thought that was an interesting aspect to the plot.
803
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:55,000
Right, and the character of Roger, who plays her husband, keeps saying things to that effect,
804
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,000
but his actions, he's just always reading the paper, ignoring everything else around him.
805
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:04,000
And he was played by Don Shelton, and we've also seen before in Dragstrip Girl in Invasion of this Husterman.
806
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,000
The reason I brought up the mom is because this is 1958.
807
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:13,000
It's many years after the war's ended, and the unhappy housewife
808
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,000
is starting to become part of the national consciousness.
809
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,000
It starts off as something that women kind of keep to themselves,
810
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,000
but being chained to the home and family,
811
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:26,000
chafes that a lot of women, and they're not necessarily happy there.
812
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:34,000
And so I think this movie is kind of recognizing that, that it's up to women to keep everyone in line by sacrificing themselves.
813
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,000
And so I think we get a little bit of that there. I don't know if that's the takeaway we're supposed to get,
814
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,000
that she is being penalized for not sacrificing herself to her family,
815
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,000
but that's definitely what I picked up on.
816
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,000
And it's obviously having effect on her daughter too,
817
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:52,000
because now Joyce is in this gang because she's not getting the attention at home, and she may require.
818
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,000
Yeah, but at her age, she should be getting into college or something.
819
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:00,000
She should be looking at her future, not sitting around waiting to be mothered.
820
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,000
She's not going to college, she's going to marry. It's 1958.
821
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,000
But girls still want to college then.
822
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,000
She's not going to, she's not going to, she's not going to, she wants to be,
823
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,000
so she's just going to get married and take the easy way out.
824
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,000
Yes, she doesn't need to get her MRS degree if she's already got a guy.
825
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,000
She hangs out with Mike, he's got a future, he's going to be an engineer.
826
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,000
Yeah, they'll get married for sure. Their relationship developed off screen, I guess.
827
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,000
Or it's just a really good day at the beach, or a night at the beach.
828
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,000
Sometimes you just know, you know.
829
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,000
They weren't even at the beach, it was a rear projection of a beach.
830
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,000
That was a funny scene.
831
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:36,000
It actually looks better than a lot of rear projections we've seen in AIP films though.
832
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,000
It's so very obvious that they're not really at the beach.
833
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,000
I know, I know, to say it could have been worse.
834
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:47,000
So it's kind of funny that critics decry these movies as exploitation of juvenile crime
835
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,000
and it's really the opposite. They're excusing juvenile crime,
836
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:56,000
but they're blaming it on the parents and then at the end everything is all tied up in any little bow.
837
00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:02,000
So they're not really exploring the reality of juvenile delinquency,
838
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:06,000
of teen on teen crime, of broken families.
839
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,000
It's just very simplistic look at it.
840
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,000
This isn't really the best example of that.
841
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:16,000
I mean, besides petty theft, the worst thing they do is they rag on their substitute teacher.
842
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,000
That's true.
843
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,000
They broke into a theater, I guess that was bad.
844
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,000
One of them committed murder, but she was just kind of psycho.
845
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,000
Oh yeah, excluding the murder, I meant.
846
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:32,000
Yeah, they broke into the house and they left a body to rot on the stairs for a week.
847
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:37,000
So that's bad, whether or not they killed her, they should have told somebody.
848
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,000
They could have called from a pay phone. It would have been traceable.
849
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:45,000
Certainly would have been nicer for the people who came home from vacation to find a dead girl in their basement.
850
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,000
I can only imagine.
851
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,000
We were spared that scene.
852
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,000
But can you... Oh my gosh.
853
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,000
That would have been another fun thing.
854
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,000
And this movie was fun.
855
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,000
Yeah, it was. I really enjoyed this one.
856
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:06,000
One of the newspaper blurbs that we read mentioned Tommy Cook being cast and he played Freddie,
857
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,000
which is an uncredited role.
858
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,000
But Tommy Cook was a pretty prolific actor by this point.
859
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:14,000
He was a child star and he'd been acting since 1940.
860
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,000
So this must have been kind of a downtime for him actually.
861
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:22,000
He doesn't have much to do here, but I didn't notice him after Connie is found dead.
862
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,000
And that's his date.
863
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,000
He just looks so stunned.
864
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:31,000
He just doesn't know what to do with himself and it's a rip that has to snap him back to get out of their mode.
865
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,000
And I just thought that was like a good little bit of acting from him.
866
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:39,000
Yeah, it made sense for the three to stay who did it was rip and Tommy and Joyce
867
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,000
because they all came together with Connie.
868
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:45,000
So when everybody else left, they were kind of stuck there until Rift decided he was ready to go.
869
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:50,000
So he took charge and said, let's clean this place up and Joyce sat there doing nothing.
870
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,000
I think she was just as stunned as Freddie was.
871
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,000
So she's a very passive person throughout the course of this movie.
872
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,000
Only when she gets a go to into action does she actually do anything.
873
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:04,000
Well, I kind of get the feeling it takes her a while to figure out what's going on.
874
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:10,000
I don't think anybody would be shocked if you're dancing at a party and then all of a sudden somebody's dead at the foot of the stairs.
875
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,000
How dumb was that game?
876
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:17,000
The weird things that they explain that the guy with the ace of spades is the one who goes first.
877
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,000
But then they turn off the lights before anyone can even look at their cards.
878
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,000
And everybody starts the free for all.
879
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,000
They just assume they had the ace of spades. They couldn't see any differently.
880
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:27,000
That's true.
881
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:31,000
And it's just a big game of grabbing and goosing people, which was obviously the point.
882
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:32,000
But what is it have rules?
883
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,000
And why is it sardines?
884
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,000
Does it sardines mean they're all pressed together close?
885
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,000
Not everyone's scurrying around looking for somebody to grope?
886
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,000
Anyway, I didn't write it.
887
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,000
I do have a couple of other cast mentions.
888
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,000
It was played by Heather Ames who we recently saw and how to make a monster
889
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:50,000
as pretty much the only female character in the whole film.
890
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,000
It was about, yeah, and she didn't have much to do.
891
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:54,000
She was only in one scene.
892
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:57,000
So here she had a little more to work with.
893
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:01,000
And she also appears in Blood of Dracula, another one for a future episode.
894
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And Troy Patterson, who played Chuck, he's the guy who comes over and tries to get Joyce to dance with him at the party after Rip takes off.
895
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He manhandles her a couple times.
896
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He was the elevator operator and attacked the puppet people.
897
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Oh, that was him?
898
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Yeah.
899
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That's a good guy that replaced the older guy that got turned into a puppet.
900
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And he's also an earth person at the spider, another bird, I Gordon flick.
901
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Well, we've got a lot to look forward to.
902
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His cast.
903
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It's pretty obvious that this movie was made for teenagers as it basically gets them off the hook for anything bad that they might do by blaming the parents.
904
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So I think that's pretty smart on AAP's part.
905
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Even though it looks phony to us, I think the kids probably appreciated it.
906
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I don't know if this was a successful movie for them, but it aired in so many theaters it must have at least made its budget back.
907
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Well, neither of us has seen Hot Rod gang yet.
908
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I don't believe.
909
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Have you?
910
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No.
911
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But judging by the title, I think it would be a pretty good double feature because I did enjoy this half.
912
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,000
Well, it has John Ashley in it.
913
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So it depends on how you feel about John Ashley.
914
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I have mixed feelings on depending on the role.
915
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:04,000
Oh, that's fair.
916
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So we both seem to enjoy this movie, which I think I know the answer.
917
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But why don't you make it official? How is that equate to rating on our AIP scale where A is awesome.
918
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,000
I use your immediate and P is pathetic.
919
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Jeff, you know me so well.
920
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:19,000
It's definitely an A.
921
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,000
I really enjoy this movie.
922
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:28,000
And despite the fact that it does have a bit of silliness to it, but then you kind of want a bit of silliness in a movie like this.
923
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I think it's even better than the standard AIP juvenile delinquent formula one that we've seen so many times before.
924
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Just because it well, this is about a bunch of girls, which is a little difference usually a bunch of guys in a gang.
925
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,000
I can reform school girl.
926
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:43,000
Well, it's a rowdy girl.
927
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,000
Okay.
928
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,000
Never mind.
929
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I like that it was about a bunch of girls girls in prison, which obviously it was another one of their tropes girls and gangs girls in prison.
930
00:49:55,000 --> 00:50:00,000
And I like that all the characters in the gang were given their own personality.
931
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And it was obviously that Joyce was not cut out for this from the beginning, but she tried to make it work and just seeing that mismatch was where the fun came in.
932
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And it was short and pretty heavy on the action.
933
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:13,000
It seemed like a lot happened.
934
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,000
So yeah, I believe this is a name of me.
935
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:16,000
What do you think?
936
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:22,000
I think that a lot of the fun in this movie is just watching wide eyed Joyce be part of this gang of.
937
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:29,000
Miss Quince, she's always gasp for you everything it's going on around her is she obviously doesn't fit into this group.
938
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,000
But she doesn't fit in at home either.
939
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,000
So at least they're accepting her for now.
940
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,000
It's not like she had a choice.
941
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,000
What really seems false about it is that they would want her in the first place.
942
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,000
Because she so obviously doesn't fit in.
943
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:43,000
But yeah, I enjoyed this movie as well.
944
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,000
This is going to be on the higher tier.
945
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:49,000
I think of these a.m.y. juvenile the link with films that were you seeing.
946
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,000
And we've seen probably more than 50% of them by now.
947
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:56,000
Yeah, I can't think of how many we haven't seen, but I definitely remember what we did see.
948
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,000
We just have the car ones left, I think.
949
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:03,000
Dragship Riot, Adrad Gang, Adrad Girl, most of Dragship Hollow.
950
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,000
So there's quite a few.
951
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,000
I know this is one that I picked rather than being assigned to us randomly.
952
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:10,000
And I'm glad I did.
953
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:14,000
What really surprises me is that this one isn't better regarded historically.
954
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:19,000
It's not one that comes to people's minds, I think.
955
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:25,000
When they're thinking of AIP from the period, it's not one that is readily available.
956
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:29,000
It's not hard to find, but it's not easily accessible unless you seek it out.
957
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:31,000
Which I guess a lot of these are now.
958
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,000
But some of them are definitely easier to find than others.
959
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,000
It's not as difficult to find and say runaway daughters.
960
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:40,000
But another 100% girl themed movie.
961
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:41,000
Yeah.
962
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:44,000
A for me as well.
963
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965
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967
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968
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:06,000
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969
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970
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971
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973
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,000
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974
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:30,000
Well, with all the pointless death in this movie, I think this has been a real high school health catastrophe.
975
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:34,000
And with that, I'm sure it's past time to end this episode of the American International Podcast.
976
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Until next time, I'm Jeff Markin.
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I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
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And we'll meet you at the drive-in.
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982
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983
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