- Teenage Devil Dolls
Infobox Film
name = Teenage Devil Dolls
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director =B. Lawrence Price, Jr.
producer =B. Lawrence Price, Jr.
writer =B. Lawrence Price, Jr.
starring =Barbara Marks Robert A. Sherry
music =Robert Jackson Drasnin
cinematography =William R. Lieb S. David Saxon
editing =B. Lawrence Price
distributor =
released = 1955
runtime = 70 minutes
country = USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0045223"Teenage Devil Dolls" (aka "One Way Ticket to Hell") is a mid-1950s American
black and white film about a high school graduate whose life spirals out of control when she becomes addicted toheroin .Plot summary
Pert and pretty high school teen Cassandra Leigh opts for the easy life of a pot-smoking biker in order to avoid the demands of her neurotic career mom. When Cassandra's grades slip and her college plans fall by the wayside, she marries a love-smitten high school swain. The devotion of her husband bores the young bride: she looks up her old thrill-seeking buddies and splits from home.
It isn't long before she's peddling dope on the streets in order to finance her growing list of addictions. A young Mexican takes the wayward girl under his wing and makes her not only his partner-in-crime but his woman.
With the police on their heels, Cassandra and her lover are forced to ditch a stolen car in the desert and take refuge in a shallow cave. With the posse closing in, the Mexican abandons Cassandra and the deputies nab the semi-conscious heroine. The court sends Cassandra to a Federal Narcotics Hospital.
Cast
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Barbara Marks (Cassandra Leigh)
*Kurt Martell (Narrator, as Lt. David Jason)
*Robert A. Sherry (Lieutenant David Jason)
*Bamlet Lawrence Price, Jr. (Miguel 'Cholo' Martinez)
*Lucille Price (Cassandra's Mother)
*Bamlet Lawrence Price, Sr. (Cassandra's Current Step-Father)
* William Kendell (Russell Packard)
* Robert Norman (Johnny Adams)
*Elaine Lindenbaum (Margo Rossi)
*Joel Climenhaga (Sven Bergman)
*Joe Popavich (Al Stutzman)
*Anthony Gorsline (Jimmy Sanchez)
*Victor Schwartz (Sergeant Schwartz)Reviews
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The New York Times ",December 8 ,1955 : "... A case history of a young girl's descent into enslavement to the [drug] habit, this obviously serious attempt to illustrate and warn against the disastrous effects of the evil emerges largely as an unimaginative cops-and-robbers-type melodrama. Although its intentions are undoubtedly noble this latter-day parable is crude and without force. Turned out in quasi-documentary style — there is no dialogue, the story is related in "voice-of-doom" fashion by Kurt Martell, the off-screen narrator — [the film] affords its cast little opportunity to develop character ... Barbara Marks only occasionally rises to the emotional levels called for in the role of the disturbed lass who drifts from a broken home to an eventually broken marriage, to marijuana, sleeping pills and heroin."Behind the scenes
* Bamlet L. Price, Jr. produced, directed, wrote, and played Cholo Martinez, one of the villains who leads the heroine astray.
ee also
Addiction External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045223 Teenage Devil Dolls]
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