Girls Town(Movie, 1959)

Name: Girls Town
Genre: Drama
Released: 1959
Duration: T01:30:00
Rating: 1.8

| 1h 30min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 1.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Girls Town is a 1959 American drama film directed by Charles F. Haas and starring Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé, and Ray Anthony. Paul Anka also appears in his first acting role. Van Doren stars as a juvenile delinquent who is sent to a girls' school run by nuns, where she finds herself unable to help her sister. The film capitalizes on the 1950s rebellious-teen exploitation films, with catfights, car races, music from Anka and The Platters, and sexy outfits. The supporting cast includes the offspring of two major silent cinema stars: Charles Chaplin Jr. and Harold Lloyd Jr. Also featured is James Mitchum (son of Robert Mitchum) and (as a nun) gossip columnist Sheilah Graham. Elinor Donahue of Father Knows Best also acted in the film. A year after making it she said: "I would just as soon forget the whole thing. In the first five minutes of the pictu... ()

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About Girls Town

Chip is killed accidentally while trying to rape a blonde girl, who runs. Silver becomes the number one suspect even though she has an alibi, but due to previous brushes with the law she's sent to Girls Town, a home for young women in trouble with the law which is run by nuns. Silver is rebellious and causes trouble at the school, and her friend Sarafina totters near the brink of self-destruction because of an infatuation with a young singer. Meanwhile Chip's father hires a detective to find out the truth, and Chip's friend Fred gets Silver's sister in trouble at a drag race. Silver has a lot of problems all right.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Made by: Albert Zugsmith Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 4 languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Japanese (JA)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/05/1959

Cast: Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé, Ray Anthony, Paul Anka

Director: Charles F. Haas

Producer: Albert Zugsmith

Screenwriter: Robert Hardy Andrews

Film Editor: Leon Barsha

Director of Photography: John L. Russell

Composer: Van Alexander

Keywords: judo, nun, alibi

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