Delinquent Daughters

Delinquent Daughters, or Accent on Crime is a 1944 exploitation film. Directed by Albert Herman and starring June Carlson, the film was about a police investigation into the suicide death of a high school girl, and the hardpartying teenagers at a party prior to the incident.

Sally gets a ride home with her boyfriend Herry Sykes, in his car after school. They stop outside of a department store on the way, parking right outside the building. Jerry goes into the store and robs it, shooting the owner in the process. Jerr speeds away from the crime scene with the police right behind him. With his careless driving, Jerry hits a pedestrian by the road outside of MerryGoRound, a club and teenage hangout. The club is owned by a gangster named Nick Gordon and his mistress Mimi, and the gangster tells Jerry to hide the car on his grounds. Nick lets Jerry and Sally come into his club to hide from the police. When Hanahan arrives to the scene looking for Jerry and Sally, but doesnt find them. Hanahan speaks to a news reporter on the street and tells him about what happened. Soon after, it is all over the news that a crime wave caused by juvenle delinquency has hit the town, and that it is caused by the loosening of family bonds.Sally meets up with one of the other friends, June, at the club. June is concerned that her father, Mr. Thompson, will start to worry since she is out so late. Sally calls Junes parents and pretends to be her own mother, inviting June to stay the night at the Higgins house. A while later Junes boyfriend Rocky Webster comes to the club and sells his fathers gun to Nick for five dollars. Nick then offers to drive June and Sally home. When June arrives home her father is furious. He has talked to the real Mrs. Higgins and subsequently discovered that June has lied to him about the sleepover. Mr. thompson throws June out of the house, after first slapping her. ........

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