Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 915 Films to Buy & Rent
High School Caesar (1960)
- Dir. O'Dale Ireland
Feat. John Ashley
- John Ashley plays a budding crime–lord in this racy wee B–movie, with his own high school proving a rich source of revenue, via exam…
Platinum High School (1960)
- Dir. Charles Haas
Feat. Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore, Dan Duryea…
- Mickey Rooney overheats in investigating his son's death at a military academy. Casting quirks includes singer Conway Twitty.
Sex Kittens Go to College (1960)
- Dir. Albert Zugsmith
Feat. Mamie Van Doren, Tuesday Weld
- Despite having thirteen diplomas, Mamie Van Doren (the B–Movie's Marilyn Monroe) has trouble being taken seriously as a college professor!…
Tall Story (1960)
- Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins
- A young Jane Fonda makes her screen debut in this candy–coated comedy as a bubbly co–ed with romantic yearnings for basketballer Anthony…
400 Blows, The (1959)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy…
- Truffaut's first film rocketed him to fame as some kind of New Wave radical, but at a second glance this story of a teenage delinquent thrown in and…
Gidget (1959)
- Dir. Paul Wendkos
Feat. Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson
- Cute–as–a–button Sandra Dee goes all out to prove she can hang with surf bums James Darren and Cliff Robertson, in the first and…
Teenage Zombies (1959)
- Dir. Jerry Warren
- A group of teenagers fall prey to a mad female scientist whose island they happen upon. Here, other prisoners and a variety of creatures are being…
Teenagers from Outer Space (the Gargon Terror) (1959)
- Dir. Tom Graeff
Feat. David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant
- Perhaps the ropiest of the ‘TEENAGE…’ 50s drive–ins, with two aliens visiting Earth as teens, one ‘good’, the…
Cool and the Crazy, The (1958)
- Dir. William Witney
Feat. Scott Marlowe, Dick Bakalyan, Gigi Perreau
- Dick Bakalyan is impressively cool and crazy in this over–the–top 50s B–movie that cautions teenagers about getting mixed up with…
High School Confidential (1958)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Russ Tamblyn, Mamie Van Doren, Jerry Lee Lewis
- When not gathering dirt on local marijuana dealers, 'student' narc Russ Tamblyn is clinching it with Mamie Van Doren. This hard–biting 'JD'…