A good girl is forced to join a dangerous all-girl high school gang, and only her waiter boyfriend and a caring female teacher can possibly help her before it may become too late.A good girl is forced to join a dangerous all-girl high school gang, and only her waiter boyfriend and a caring female teacher can possibly help her before it may become too late.A good girl is forced to join a dangerous all-girl high school gang, and only her waiter boyfriend and a caring female teacher can possibly help her before it may become too late.
- Mike Landers
- (as Bret Halsey)
- Dolly Crane
- (as Suzanne Sydney)
- Freddie
- (uncredited)
- Sales Clerk
- (uncredited)
- Chuck
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis movie was part of a two-picture deal (the other movie being Hot Rod Gang) between producers Charles "Buddy" Rogers, who was the husband of "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, and Ferde Grofe Jr., son of the composer Ferde Grofe, in association with a nationwide competition in Dig Magazine. Mary Pickford put up $100,000 for each of the movies. Grofe Jr. had his name removed from the credits, fearing the low-brow nature of this and Hot Rod Gang would reflect poorly on his father.
- GoofsJoyce crumples up the note from Mom, throws it in the fireplace, leans on the mantelpiece for a moment, then pushes herself away so hard that the entire fireplace shudders, causing a plant on it to shake, and revealing the entire fireplace wall to be a prop.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Meg: . What's the new girl's name?
Connie Harris, aka Connie Ross: Joyce Martin.
Meg: Have you asked her yet?
Connie Harris, aka Connie Ross: I'm not gonna ask her. I'm gonna tell her.
Meg: We haven't had a good initiation this whole term. What are you gonna make her do?
Connie Harris, aka Connie Ross: I think I'll start out with the slacks test.
Dolly Crane: That's too easy!
Connie Harris, aka Connie Ross: Dolly, you bug me.
- ConnectionsEdited into Heavy Petting (1989)
But wearing slacks to school is in violation of the school dress code.
And Joyce is the only girl who shows up the next day wearing slacks. It has been mentioned that Joyce is a dumb twit? But Joyce, gamer that she is, doesn't "give up" Connie and the Hellcats, when grilled by the teacher, and she is now "in."
"In" puts her in the "victims" fast lane of activities engaged in by Connie and the Hellcats, and she immediately dumps her dependable boyfriend Mike (Brett Halsey), who is a college student working in a nearby cafe, and just full of good and dull advice, such as counseling Joyce against continuing her association with the Hellcats. Mike is the type who still wears his high school letter jacket with the "4th Runner-up, District 2-AA Science Fair" patch, and is soon yesterday's news as Joyce, dumb-twit slash victim-looking-for-love-in-all-the-wrong-places, dumps him for Rip (Martin Braddock)who knows where all the wrong places are.
Rip takes her to a Hellcat-sponsored party at a mansion. The mansion owners are vacationing out of town, but it is okay as they didn't leave any signs on the premises reading "Do Not Break In and Throw a Wild Party While We Are Gone." This lack of oversight would get them sued from here to Shanghai in the present-day world, especially if any of the breaker-inners were to suffer any harm while on the premises.
The party is wild and there is some smoking, drinking, dipping (snuff not skinny) and even games played with the lights out. A scream is heard, the lights come on, and Connie is found suffering some harm. Actually, she is beyond that and a whole lot dead.
Now it becomes a murder mystery movie, as everybody in the cast and several people in the audience, all have reasons for killing Connie. And poor Joyce, the slut that brazenly wore slacks to school, heads the list.
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- Also known as
- School for Violence
- Filming locations
- Comstock Avenue, Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA(Joyce's house)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime1 hour 9 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1