High School Confidential!
Behind these "nice" school walls... A TEACHERS' NIGHTMARE!...A TEEN-AGE JUNGLE!
A lurid 1950s morality tale about teenage delinquency and drug culture, driven by period-specific slang and anxieties rather than psychological depth.
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.
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