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Director
  
Howard W. Koch

Music director
  
Les Baxter

Cinematography
  
Carl E. Guthrie

Country
  
United States

2.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Producer
  
Aubrey Schenck

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Untamed Youth movie poster

Release date
  
March 10, 1957(United States)

Writer
  
John C. Higgins, Stephen Longstreet (story)

Cast
  
Mamie Van Doren
(Penny Lowe),
Lori Nelson
(Jack Landis),
John Russell
(Russ Tropp),
Don Burnett
(Bob Steele),
Glenn Dixon
(Jack Landis),
Jeanne Carmen
(Lillibet)

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,
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,
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,
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,
Blackboard Jungle
,
De tripas corazón

Tagline
  
OUR VAGRANT YOUTH!

Untamed Youth is a 1957 American drama film directed by Howard W. Koch, written by John C. Higgins and Stephen Longstreet, and starring Mamie Van Doren and Lori Nelson as two starstruck sisters who are sentenced to farm labor.

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The film was featured on an early episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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Plot

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Sisters Penny and Jane Lowe are arrested for hitchhiking and skinny dipping and are sentenced to work on a rural Texas farm for a corrupt agricultural magnate named Russ Tropp. The judge who sentenced the sisters to the farm is dating Tropp and is unaware of the treatment of the prisoners, until her son is hired to work at the farm and uncovers that a scam had been going on. Through dating the judge, Tropp ensures that all delinquents and rule breakers are ordered to work off their sentence at his farm therefore giving him a stable amount of cheap labor, allowing him to undercut all competition he faces. The judge's son also falls in love with Jane, while Penny, who performs four songs in the film, dreams of making it big in show business. The film features Eddie Cochran as Bong, one of prisoners in the camp, who also performs a song onscreen.

Trivia

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  • In this film, Mamie Van Doren became the first actress to sing rock 'n roll in an American musical film.
  • Eddie Cochran co-wrote the song "Oobala Baby" with Les Baxter, Lenny Adelson, and Jerry Capehart which was performed by Mamie Van Doren.
  • Eddie Cochran performs the song "Cottonpicker".
  • Mamie Van Doren performs four songs in the movie, "Salamander", "Oobala Baby", "Rolling Stone", and "Go, Go, Calypso".
  • The Mamie Van Doren performances were released as a 45 picture sleeve 45 single on Prep Records as M1-1 in 1957.

    • Untamed Youth 1957 Howard W Koch Mamie Van Doren Lori Nelson

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    References

    Untamed Youth Wikipedia
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    Untamed Youth IMDb Untamed Youth themoviedb.org


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