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Excellent but underrated film

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

The Violent Years (1956) *** (out of 4) As our film opens, a judge is putting down a couple parents for their lack of skills when it came to raising their child. When then flashback to what led to these events and we're introduced to four females who are on a crime spree.Please don't let my three star rating fool you. THE VIOLENT YEARS is not a good movie. It's poorly acted, poorly directed, it was written rather poorly and on every technical level it is pretty bad. With that said, if you are a fan of bad movies then there's so much good stuff here that you'll certainly have a great time with the movie. This certainly fits the term "so bad it's good." In case you're not aware, Edward D. Wood, Jr. wrote the screenplay to this film so there's the outrageous, silly and at times pathetic dialogue that his fans have come to love. There are some really silly lines throughout the short running time so that's one fun bit. Another fun thing is just how silly the entire story was and especially these four girls trying to act tough. The poor acting just doesn't make it that believable so you'll be laughing at how "tough" they are and especially during one sequence where they rape a man (off screen of course).If you're familiar with the exploitation movies from the 1930s and 40s you'lll be somewhat shocked that the stories weren't updated in films like this. No, it's the basic "blame the parents" routine and it's rather funny that after a couple decades people were still pointing their fingers at the parents and trying to play the criminals up as victims. Either way, THE VIOLENT YEARS is a really bad movie that manages to be a lot of fun as long as you know what you're getting.

Great flick to watch with your friends and laugh at. The unintentionally hilarious dialogue is straight out of a Saturday Nite Live skit. When the parents talk, it's always stating the obvious...no subtlety here. At one point,the girl gang robs a gas station. They are dressed like teenage boys, but their eye liner and manicured eyebrows show above the scarf over their mouths. They run like girls and are the curviest guys you ever saw. Needless to say, they fool everyone. At one point, they take captive a thirty something couple making out on lover's lane (in the daylight). They tie the girl up and march the guy into the woods at gunpoint. They point a gun at him as the head bad girl approaches him and begins to take off her sweater. The headlines the next day says that the girl gang assaulted the poor man. Now isn't that every man's dream? To be sexually assaulted by four hot chicks???? Did he actually try to escape? Then there was the night time shootout from the second floor classroom. When the cops on the ground shot back, it was daylight. It was the living end, Daddy-o.

This mid-50s low budget juvenile delinquency-themed film is about the very improbable story of four rich, bored, beautiful teenage girls (they look like their actually pushing 30 though) who get their kicks by robbing gas stations, trashing schools, and attacking young people on lover's lane. The characters (especially that of Paula, their leader) are very unbelievable - the scripting is wooden and amateurishly acted, especially the hammy "he/she shot me!" scenes which must go down in cinematic history as the fakest ever to appear on film. The filmmaker simply wanted an excuse to film beautiful, busty girls wearing sweaters two sizes too small and put them in a contrived juvenile delinquency story. My score is 8 for the super-tight sweaters minus 3 for the silly death scenes and a minus 3 for the horrible dialog equals a 2. No wonder this was used by MST3K...

Please note: My score of 2 does NOT mean that this film isn't fun. In fact, THE VIOLENT YEARS is a wonderful film to watch. Just don't assume this makes it a good film or a picture made by competent film makers! No, its watchability is because it is so bad...so incredibly lacking in any subtlety that make it a must-see for bad movie fans. In other words, if you like laughing at films such as PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, then this film is definitely for you! The film begins with a judge lecturing two parents and basically saying that any time a teen goes bad it is because the parents are to blame! While this is true in some cases, the film pounds home this contention with all the subtlety and grace of a 2x4 being smacked repeatedly against your head!! As the judge is talking, the mother begins to think back about recent events and wonder if she DID have anything to do with her daughter becoming a menace to society.This daughter turns out to be like a Jekyll and Hyde sort of person--acting sweet in front of Mom and being an evil thrill-seeking idiot outside the home. For kicks, she and her three friends rob gas stations, destroy schools and rape men. Oddly, however, they are not caught for the longest time because you can only assume everyone in the town (especially the cops) are idiots! The girls leave lots of fingerprints and other evidence behind but the cops conclude at one point that it's the work of a gang of men from another town!! While the girls DID disguise themselves for one of the robberies, it's pretty obvious they weren't guys!!! And, when they raped a man and left him and his girlfriend as witnesses, don't you think they could have identified the girls?! And, later in the film, when one of the father's co-workers comes to the house and one of the girls' boyfriends pulls a knife and threatens the visitor, don't you think perhaps this MIGHT have clued somebody in to the fact that the girl and her friends were up to no good?! Regardless, the bad acting and silly script is very watchable in a salacious and laughable sort of way--particularly if you enjoy laughing at such films as REEFER MADNESS, SEX MADNESS or HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL. Plus, it is just funny seeing the actors(?) having trouble with their lines (such as the judge who appears to be reading his lines as he talks to the parents) and the inconsistent and brainless writing (for which Ed Wood was responsible). I particularly loved it when two of the bad girls just told a crook that they shot a cop---and then this crook picks up the phone and tries to call the police! Didn't they just say they killed a policeman?! Didn't you think perhaps they might do the same if you made this phone call?! Duh.Overall, because the film is so earnestly stupid, it holds a near and dear place in the heart of every bad film fan--you know, the sort of people who enjoy laughing at horrible films as an exercise in self-torture. If you aren't the sort of person who likes to do this, then my advice is to steer clear!!