The Violent Years (1956) on Netflix
Paula Parkins, the teenage daughter of a wealthy newspaper family, is left to herself while her parents work. She leads a gang of schoolgirls who rob gas stations dressed as boys.
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Plot summary
Paula Parkins has money and a car and parents who are never home: her father runs a newspaper and her mother has committee meetings. She and three classmates, Georgia, Geraldine and Phyllis, put on men's clothing and hold up gas stations, and they attack a couple parked on Lover's Lane. The robberies make the front page of her father's paper, and the police put officers in disguise on night duty at the stations, which Paula learns from her father without his suspecting her. A fence named Sheila takes the stolen goods and offers the girls money to wreck a school building, a job she says clients will pay well for.
Cast
- Art Millanas Carl Parkins(Arthur Millan)
- Theresa Hancockas Georgia
- Joanne Cangias Geraldine
- Gloria Farras Phyllis
- Lee Constantas Sheila
- F. Chan McClureas Det. Artman
- Bruno Metsaas Manny
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Violent Years (1956)
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- The industrial metal band Ministry incorporated many lines of the film's dialogue into its 1989 song "So What?", including long stretches of the judge's monologue and multiple characters' readings of the title line.
- The Violent Years was the most financially successful film with creative input from Ed Wood, who wrote its screenplay, originally titled Teenage Girl Gang, without billing.
