The Violent Years

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Overview

"Parental neglect is firmly to blame in this low-budget potboiler scripted by the immortal Edward D. Wood Jr. Paula Parkins (Jean Moorhead) is a spoiled rich girl who turns to kicks when her parents become too engrossed in their careers and charity work.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/18/2003
UPC:	0089218429490
Original Release:	1956
Source:	Alpha Video
Presentation:	[B&W]
Language:	English
Time:	0:57:00
Sales rank:	51,174

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jean Moorhead	Paula
Barbara Weeks	Jane
Arthur Millan	Carl
Theresa Hancock	Georgia
Joanne Cangi	Geraldine
Gloria Farr	Phyllis
Gloria Parr	Phyllis
Lee Constant	Sheila
I. Stanford Jolley	Judge Clara
Glenn Corbett	Barney Stetson

Technical Credits

O.A. Bayer

Producer

Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Chapter 1 [6:11]
2. Chapter 2 [9:39]
3. Chapter 3 [11:10]
4. Chapter 4 [10:12]
5. Chapter 5 [10:56]
6. Chapter 6 [8:29]

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Edward D. Wood Jr. isn't mentioned in the credits of this Headliner Productions film, but it's a documented fact that the screenplay is his and The Violent Years was a moneymaker on the low-budget circuit at the time of its original release. While not as confounding as some of the pieces that Wood directed himself, there's plenty of garish action packed into its slender running time as well as the subconcious sexual gymnastics that Wood's fans have come to expect from his work. The four gang members are named Phyllis, Paula, Geraldine, and Georgia, but refer to each other as Phil, Paul, Jerry, and George. An attack on a young couple results in the girl being stripped and bound with her own clothes while the gang rapes the poor boy in the forest. A combination birthday/pajama/petting party is held in Paula's honor, and the girls are clearly in control of the action. When an uninvited guest comments on a particularly amorous couple by staring past Paula's brassiered bosom and remarking, "That's a nice pair," she tops him with a tart "They have their points." This salaciousness, as well as the girls' healthy disrespect for values and good judgement (Paula's final words are "So what?") is plenty of fun when juxtaposed against the restraint the filmmakers had to use, given the restrictive era that this exploitative morality play was produced in. The result is a tightly wound alarm clock of B-movie desires that is just bursting to ring in an era of permissiveness that was still over a decade away. Indeed, Wood later revamped the screenplay for use in 1974's Fugitive Girls, when the concept of teenage devil dolls could be exploited to its fullest capacity.

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