High School Confidential!
1958, NR, 85 min.
Directed by Jack Arnold, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, John Drew Barrymore, Mamie Van Doren, Diane Jergens, Ray Anthony, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jackie Coogan, Michael Landon.

Cops, cars, marijuana, and teens. This Fifties exploitation film has Russ Tamblyn as an undercover cop who poses as a high school student in order to root out the evil weed. Jerry Lee Lewis beats the keyboards on the back of a rolling flatbed truck, and Mamie Van Doren thrusts her torpedoes.

This article appears in July 27 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.