High School Confidential (1958)
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Producer Albert Zugsmith serves up another all-star exposé with High School Confidential. Delivering a superb performance under the circumstances, Russ Tamblyn heads the cast as "typical" high schooler Tony Baker. Usually seen in the company of his voluptuous "aunt" Gwen Dulaine (the truly impressive Mamie Van Doren), Tony convinces one and all that he's looking for kicks of the controlled-substance kind. In truth, however, our hero is really an undercover narcotics agent named Mike Wilson, bound and determined to smash the operation of drug lord Mr. A. (Jackie Coogan). The once-in-a-lifetime cast includes such worthies as John Drew Barrymore (Drew Barrymore's daddy), Ray Anthony (then married to Mamie Van Doren), Charles Chaplin Jr., Michael Landon, and Jerry Lee Lewis as "himself." This updated Reefer Madness is not to be missed! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 85 mins
Complete Cast:
- Jan Sterling - Arlene Williams
- Mamie van Doren - Gwen Dulaine
- Ray Anthony - Bix
- Charles Chaplin, Jr. - Quinn
- Michael Landon - Steve Bentley
- Phillipa Fallon - Poetess
- James Todd - Jack Staples
- William Wellman, Jr. - Wheeler-Dealer
- Carl Thayler - Petey
- Gil Perkins - Police Sergeant
- Russ Tamblyn - Tony Baker
- Ernst R. von Theumer
- John Drew Barrymore - J.I. Coleridge
- Diane Jergens - Joan Staples
- Jackie Coogan - Mr. A
- Burt Douglas - Jukey Judlow
- Jody Fair - Doris
- Robin Raymond - Kitty
- Lyle Talbot - William Remington Kane
- Diana Darrin - Gloria
- Irwin Berke - Morino
- Pierre Watkin - David Wingate
- Jerry Lee Lewis - Himself
- Director(s):
- Jack Arnold
- Writer(s):
- Robert Blees, Lewis Meltzer
- Producer(s):
- Albert Zugsmith
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