DIRECTOR: Reform School Girl: Edward Bernds (World Without End) / Sorority Girl: Roger Corman (The Trip)
STARS: Reform School Girl: Gloria Castillo (Invasion of the Saucer Men), Ross Ford, Edd Byrnes (77 Sunset Strip), Yvette Vickers (Attack of the Giant Leeches), Luana Anders (The Pit and the Pendulum) / Sorority Girl: Susan Cabot (The Wasp Woman), Dick Miller (Bucket of Blood), Fay Baker (Deadline USA)
SYNOPSIS: Two solid drive-in “Bad Girls” (1950’s style) features on one disc.
Reform School Girl: Cute “Donna“ (Castillo) lives with her aunt and uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle is a little too “hands-on”. So, she takes off with a bad crowd of kids including near-sociopath Edd ‘Kooky’ Byrnes (in a manic performance). He steals a car and their joyriding ends up with a man getting run over. Donna keeps her mouth shut and is sent to reform school. She can hold her own against some of the tougher girls (including Yvette Vickers and a scary Luana Anders) but ultimately she’s a good kid. She’s able to talk with a sympathetic psychiatrist, and even falls for a local boy. But then things go south. Someone spreads a rumor that she’s a snitch and a group of girls, along with Byrnes, want to shut her up permanently. All the actors play it straight and keep this material from being campy. There’s a handful of catfights and the ending is genuinely tense. Running time: 1hr 11mins
Sorority Girl: Susan Cabot plays “Sabra“ a rich college girl who can’t seem to connect with her classmates. She’s in a sorority and is compelled to degrade and abuse the girls below her. In narration we hear her thoughts as she struggles with why she does these awful things. We meet her coldhearted, distant mother and it provides some clues. Cabot spanks one poor girl with a wooden paddle and convinces another to blackmail local bar owner Dick Miller into paying for an abortion. Eventually her misdeeds catch up with her. Cabot is the real star here giving a way above average performance for a drive-in movie. She seems to be channeling Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in this film. Cabot had a brief career, and troubled life, and most people probably know her from The Wasp Woman.There’s no doubt she could have been a great femme fatale in film noirs or melodrama of the 50’s. As with Reform School Girl it’s pretty convincing drama without being campy. Running time: 1hr 1min
Fullscreen / Black & White (Both films)
Region Free / Code Free DVD-R
DIRECTOR: Reform School Girl: Edward Bernds (World Without End) / Sorority Girl: Roger Corman (The Trip)
STARS: Reform School Girl: Gloria Castillo (Invasion of the Saucer Men), Ross Ford, Edd Byrnes (77 Sunset Strip), Yvette Vickers (Attack of the Giant Leeches), Luana Anders (The Pit and the Pendulum) / Sorority Girl: Susan Cabot (The Wasp Woman), Dick Miller (Bucket of Blood), Fay Baker (Deadline USA)
SYNOPSIS: Two solid drive-in “Bad Girls” (1950’s style) features on one disc.
Reform School Girl: Cute “Donna“ (Castillo) lives with her aunt and uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle is a little too “hands-on”. So, she takes off with a bad crowd of kids including near-sociopath Edd ‘Kooky’ Byrnes (in a manic performance). He steals a car and their joyriding ends up with a man getting run over. Donna keeps her mouth shut and is sent to reform school. She can hold her own against some of the tougher girls (including Yvette Vickers and a scary Luana Anders) but ultimately she’s a good kid. She’s able to talk with a sympathetic psychiatrist, and even falls for a local boy. But then things go south. Someone spreads a rumor that she’s a snitch and a group of girls, along with Byrnes, want to shut her up permanently. All the actors play it straight and keep this material from being campy. There’s a handful of catfights and the ending is genuinely tense. Running time: 1hr 11mins
Sorority Girl: Susan Cabot plays “Sabra“ a rich college girl who can’t seem to connect with her classmates. She’s in a sorority and is compelled to degrade and abuse the girls below her. In narration we hear her thoughts as she struggles with why she does these awful things. We meet her coldhearted, distant mother and it provides some clues. Cabot spanks one poor girl with a wooden paddle and convinces another to blackmail local bar owner Dick Miller into paying for an abortion. Eventually her misdeeds catch up with her. Cabot is the real star here giving a way above average performance for a drive-in movie. She seems to be channeling Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in this film. Cabot had a brief career, and troubled life, and most people probably know her from The Wasp Woman.There’s no doubt she could have been a great femme fatale in film noirs or melodrama of the 50’s. As with Reform School Girl it’s pretty convincing drama without being campy. Running time: 1hr 1min
Fullscreen / Black & White (Both films)
Region Free / Code Free DVD-R
