Early hot rod movie. Teens drive like idiots and one kid's father isn't much better, driving too fast in his big giant Buick, passing on the right. At one point, the kids break into the morgue to see if an unidentified hot rod fatality was a friend of theirs. They're almost caught by a night watchman who calls the police as they speed away. As they're fleeing police, Darryl Hickman causes an accident that kills his best friend and nearly kills his mother.
In the epilogue, the mother drives slowly and carefully while the father tells her to speed up and pass the other cars. They were driving to reform school to pick up their son who just finished his sentence for manslaughter.
The kids could have been a force for good in the world if they were shown installing makeshift seatbelts in their horrible cars.
From PRC, the most impoverished of the poverty row studios.
According to IMDb, it was the first movie to show its female leads in bikini tops and there's early use of the word "groovy".
67 minutes. Free on Tubi.
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