Don't you just love titles like this? Even the staunchest of movie buffs won't recognize any of the players here unless you've got stuff like "Dragstrip Riot" or "Hot Car Girl" in your film library. The major tip off that the characters here were playing for keeps was when Connie Harris (Jana Lund) successfully suckered Joyce Martin (Yvonne Lime) into wearing a pair of slacks to school!!! Oh, the horror!
For those of us who lived through the era, the picture offers a nice trip down memory lane with the prices down at the Campus Coffee Shop where hunky Mike Landers (Brett Halsey) earns a few shekels while taking night classes and living in his own apartment. Get a load of a ham and cheese sandwich for sixty cents and a variety of sundaes under half a buck. With those prices I couldn't quite figure out how the Family Expense Diagram in Miss Davis's (Rhoda Williams) class broke out food at thirty per cent of the family dollar and rent only twenty per cent.
The stand-out character here has to be Susanne Sydney as Dolly Crane, the would be leader of the Hellcats if only she could figure out a way to bypass Connie. Hellcat Meg (Heather Ames) offers an intriguing insight into Dolly's personality when she tells Joyce - "I don't think she's got all her marbles". Watch out for that first step Connie!
Well I don't know about you but this was good for my annual fix for movies of this genre, one which sort of defies any kind of classification. One thing you have to admit though, film makers of an earlier era never missed out on an opportunity to hawk a commercial product if they had the chance. Case in point - just check out the sign in the phone booth when Trudy Davis makes the call to Lieutenant Manners (Robert Anderson) - 'Extension Phones Are So Handy'. I wonder how many movie goers ordered the extra line when they left the theater.
For those of us who lived through the era, the picture offers a nice trip down memory lane with the prices down at the Campus Coffee Shop where hunky Mike Landers (Brett Halsey) earns a few shekels while taking night classes and living in his own apartment. Get a load of a ham and cheese sandwich for sixty cents and a variety of sundaes under half a buck. With those prices I couldn't quite figure out how the Family Expense Diagram in Miss Davis's (Rhoda Williams) class broke out food at thirty per cent of the family dollar and rent only twenty per cent.
The stand-out character here has to be Susanne Sydney as Dolly Crane, the would be leader of the Hellcats if only she could figure out a way to bypass Connie. Hellcat Meg (Heather Ames) offers an intriguing insight into Dolly's personality when she tells Joyce - "I don't think she's got all her marbles". Watch out for that first step Connie!
Well I don't know about you but this was good for my annual fix for movies of this genre, one which sort of defies any kind of classification. One thing you have to admit though, film makers of an earlier era never missed out on an opportunity to hawk a commercial product if they had the chance. Case in point - just check out the sign in the phone booth when Trudy Davis makes the call to Lieutenant Manners (Robert Anderson) - 'Extension Phones Are So Handy'. I wonder how many movie goers ordered the extra line when they left the theater.