Teenage Devil Dolls
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| Teenage Devil Dolls | |
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| Directed by | B. Lawrence Price, Jr. |
| Produced by | B. Lawrence Price, Jr. |
| Written by | B. Lawrence Price, Jr. |
| Starring | Barbara Marks Robert A. Sherry |
| Music by | Robert Jackson Drasnin |
| Cinematography | William R. Lieb S. David Saxon |
| Editing by | B. Lawrence Price |
| Release date(s) | 1955 |
| Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Teenage Devil Dolls (aka One Way Ticket to Hell) is a midfifties American black and white film about a high school graduate whose life spirals out of control when she becomes addicted to heroin.
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[edit] Plot summary
Pert and pretty high school teen Cassandra Leigh opts for the easy life of a pot-smoking biker in order to avoid the demands of her neurotic career mom. When Cassandra's grades slip and her college plans fall by the wayside, she marries a love-smitten high school swain. The devotion of her husband bores the young bride: she looks up her old thrill-seeking buddies and splits from home.
It isn't long before she's peddling dope on the streets in order to finance her growing list of addictions. A young Mexican takes the wayward girl under his wing and makes her not only his partner-in-crime but his woman.
With the police on their heels, Cassandra and her lover are forced to ditch a stolen car in the desert and take refuge in a shallow cave. With the posse closing in, the Mexican abandons Cassandra and the deputies nab the semi-conscious heroine. The court sends Cassandra to a Federal Narcotics Hospital.
[edit] Cast
- Barbara Marks (Cassandra Leigh)
- Kurt Martell (Narrator, as Lt. David Jason)
- Robert A. Sherry (Lieutenant David Jason)
- Bamlet Lawrence Price, Jr. (Miguel 'Cholo' Martinez)
- Lucille Price (Cassandra's Mother)
- Bamlet Lawrence Price, Sr. (Cassandra's Current Step-Father)
- William Kendell (Russell Packard)
- Robert Norman (Johnny Adams)
- Elaine Lindenbaum (Margo Rossi)
- Joel Climenhaga (Sven Bergman)
- Joe Popavich (Al Stutzman)
- Anthony Gorsline (Jimmy Sanchez)
- Victor Schwartz (Sergeant Schwartz)
[edit] Reviews
The New York Times, December 8, 1955: "... A case history of a young girl's descent into enslavement to the [drug] habit, this obviously serious attempt to illustrate and warn against the disastrous effects of the evil emerges largely as an unimaginative cops-and-robbers-type melodrama. Although its intentions are undoubtedly noble this latter-day parable is crude and without force. Turned out in quasi-documentary style — there is no dialogue, the story is related in "voice-of-doom" fashion by Kurt Martell, the off-screen narrator — [the film] affords its cast little opportunity to develop character ... Barbara Marks only occasionally rises to the emotional levels called for in the role of the disturbed lass who drifts from a broken home to an eventually broken marriage, to marijuana, sleeping pills and heroin."
[edit] Behind the scenes
- Bamlet L. Price, Jr. produced, directed, wrote, and played Cholo Martinez, one of the villains who leads the heroine astray.
