The title made it sound like a teen movie, but the cast mostly seemed middle aged. There was a young couple that got kicked out of the bar for not having ID, but the young, fresh-faced underage boy had a receding hairline. Maybe he really did leave his license at home.
Dick Miller has a Napoleon complex. He gets kicked out of a fancy night club for mouthing off to a drunken customer. He cleverly calls him "fatty" and tells him he stinks. But that was completely gratuitous. It padded out the movie and let them include a couple of songs by the Platters.
The bulk of the action takes place at a seedy bar. It was kind of cool seeing Russell Johnson, The Professor on Gilligan's Island, as a psychopathic killer. He and his partner are on the run after murdering two old people. They take the patrons hostage.
Dick Miller keeps needling the larger fellows to DO something even though Russell Johnson would simply shoot them.
It was only an hour long, based on an episode of Fireside Theater, a half-hour anthology series.
The ending was anti-climactic.
Corman regular Mel Welles as an aging beatnik acting as an agent for a rock and roll band. With Jonathan Haze and Barboura Morris.
I'm pro-Roger Corman, but this was dull and talky. Most of the cast remains seated. The whole thing was filmed in a small studio which made the shots of the cops surrounding the bar a bit comical. They were ten feet from the door but used a bullhorn to talk to the criminals inside.
I don't think I'm giving anything away when I say that police take the criminals away in the end, but, strangely, they leave the murder weapons behind sitting on the bar. Maybe the killers will get away with it after all.
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