High School Confidential (1958) DVD5 Untouched - Mamie Van Doren, Russ Tamblyn [DDR]

High School Confidential is a 1958 crime drama film directed by Jack Arnold, starring Mamie Van Doren, Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, John Drew, Jackie Coogan, and Michael Landon.
The film also features a cameo by Jerry Lee Lewis who opens the movie singing a song of the same name, which Lewis co-wrote with Ron Hargrave.
Lewis released the title track as a Sun Records 45 single which became a Top 40 hit, reaching #21 on the Billboard charts. 
The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.

    CAST:-
    Russ Tamblyn as Tony Baker/Mike Wilson
    Mamie Van Doren as Gwen Dulaine
    Jan Sterling as Arlene Williams
    John Drew as J. I. Coleridge
    Diane Jergens as Joan Staples
    Jerry Lee Lewis as Himself
    Ray Anthony as Bix
    Jackie Coogan as Mr. 'Mr. A' August
    Charles Chaplin, Jr. as Quinn
    Michael Landon as Steve Bentley
    Lyle Talbot as William Remington Kane
    Robin Raymond as Kitty

Directed by Jack Arnold
Produced by Albert Zugsmith
Written by Robert Blees, Lewis Meltzer
Music by Albert Glasser
Running time 85 minutes

MOVIE PLOT:- High School Confidential (1958)
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. As he moves his way up the ladder, a schoolteacher tries to reform him, his aunt tries to seduce him, and the "weedheads" are eager to use his newly found enterprise, but he has his own agenda. After an altercation involving fast cars, hidden drugs, and police, he's accepted by the drug kingpin and is off into the big leagues. A typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.

NOTES:_
According to MGM records the film earned $1,290,000 in the US and Canada and $625,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $578,000. However the follow up films Zugsmith made for the studio - Girl Town, The Beat Generation and Platinum High School - all lost money.

This film in sampled on White Zombie's album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 on four separate occasions. The "Do you want to start a rumble?" conversation, the "Drop it, buster!" line, the "tomorrow's a drag" poem, and the Columbus speech ("the only thing square about this world...").

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 7188 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1
Frames Per Second: 29.970
Audio Codec:  AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams:  1
Audio Languages: English
RunTime 85 mins
Subtitles: NONE
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]