A girl flunking high school (Jill Lansing) sleeps with her male teachers. Out of a confused sense of professional ethics, one of them (John Yates) still refuses to give her a passing grade. She wisely resorts to blackmail.
She becomes a prostitute. When she kills a sadistic client (James Devney) in self-defense, her pimp (Garth Pillsbury) is so impressed he makes her a "hit girl" and has her murder another pimp (Alex Mann).
At school, the decrepit principal (John Harmon) calls her to the office. He had looked into the sudden turnaround in her grades, noticed this only happened in classes with male teachers and that she's taken to dressing provocatively for school. He gets angry and suddenly clutches his chest and staggers to his coat to get his pills. She later kills him by inducing a heart attack with her nakedness.
"Don't I deserve an 'A' now, sir?" she says as he's in his death throes.
Even her pimp thinks that killing a man for a high school diploma is rather extreme. He sends her to murder the wealthy hoodlum father (Clark Gordon) of the classmate (Tammy Taylor) who stole her boyfriend (Stuart Taylor).
I was in high school when this thing was made. I never once heard boys in school refer to female classmates as "broads".
In the final sequence they use the same stock music used two years later on The People's Court.
The auteur, Irvin Berwick, took an unusual route to become a director. He worked as a dialogue coach on over 40 films in the '40's, '50's and '60's. He directed eight movies from 1959 to 1979. I've now seen at least half of them.
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