Gun Girls (1957)

Not as good as you'd expect. I found it weird that it was based on a novel. It didn't seem like something that needed a literary source.

About juvenile delinquents of indeterminate age. They commit a number of violent robberies. In an opening scene, we see one hit a man over the head after another girl lured him into an alleyway. They sell stolen property to a fence (Timothy Farrell) and buy a couple of guns from him. Most of the action takes place in Timothy Farrell's one room apartment.

“I understand now! With a gun, you’re somebody.”

In one scene, the two girls gather their stolen loot.

“Remember the sucker we conked in the alley that night?”

“I’ll never forget it. You know, I was sure scared. It was the first time I ever lured a man in an alley.”

“I’m hip. But there’s a first time for everything, honey.”

One of them says, “Come on. Let’s change clothing and get out of here.”

Starring Eve Brent who went on to have a pretty good career as a supporting actor, with Timothy Farrell,  former silent film actor Harry Keatan and Barbara Weeks, all of whom appeared in movies that were directed and/or written by Ed Wood. One of Brent's last roles was in an episode of Community.

The film wasn't amusing. Sort of interesting how little you could do in a movie back then and still have it be commercially viable.

A little creativity wouldn't have cost anything. There was a Japanese juvenile delinquency movie where two girls from rival gangs fight at night in the dark, each with a flashlight in one hand and a switchblade in the other.  In another, Japanese high school girls attempt to murder a classmate by having her blood slowly drip into a vat used in science class. They learned in health class how much blood you have to lose for it to kill you, so they tell the poor girl that when it gets to a certain level she'll die. 

But, for Gun Girls, I guess they needed to at least pretend to have some seriousness of purpose. It starts with a Dragnet-like narration and has a scene where a girl's parole officer berates her parents for the lousy job they've done.

67 minutes. Free on Tubi.