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Youth Runs Wild (1944)
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TIMELY! TRUTHFUL! (original ad under alternate title "Are These Our Children" - all caps) morePlot:
During WWII, adults are either off fighting or busy in the factories, so juvenile delinquency becomes a major problem back home... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Dutiful "warning" film for teens from, all of people, Val Lewton! moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Bonita Granville | ... | Toddy | |
| Kent Smith | ... | Danny Coates | |
| Jean Brooks | ... | Mary Hauser Coates | |
| Glen Vernon | ... | Frank Hauser (as Glenn Vernon) | |
| Vanessa Brown | ... | Sarah Taylor (as Tessa Brind) | |
| Ben Bard | ... | Mr. Taylor | |
| Mary Servoss | ... | Mrs. Cora Hauser | |
| Arthur Shields | ... | Father killed by his son (scenes deleted) | |
| Lawrence Tierney | ... | Larry Duncan | |
| Johnny Walsh | ... | Herb Vigero | |
| Rod Rodgers | ... | Rocky | |
| Elizabeth Russell | ... | Mrs. Mabel Taylor |
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Fun Stuff
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The movie did poorly at the box office and lost $45,000. moreSoundtrack:
I Get the Neck of the Chicken moreFAQ
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From producer Val Lewton comes this awkward, hardly bearable WWII mini-soap with teenagers at its center. Beginning with a rash of newspaper headlines exclaiming the downward spiral of the era's delinquent youth, Lewton and director Mark Robson focus on working-class teen sweethearts who live next door in a small town housing project: she's from a rowdy, low-class family yet is inexplicably wholesome, he's a straight arrow who gets into trouble with the law by trying to impress his girl. The unsympathetic nature of the girl's parents is very believable and well-portrayed, but the kids themselves and the other adults are poorly-cast and sketchily-written. There's some business at the beginning about an auto shop dealing in stolen goods, but it's as irrelevant as the salty chanteuse who gets the girl a job as a hostess. Reportedly a troubled production, with R.K.O. altering the finished product against Lewton's wishes (he considered at one point removing his name from the credits). It must be seen to be believed... *1/2 from ****