High School Big Shot

High School Big Shot is a 1959 film starring Tom Pittman as Marv Grant, a smart high school student whose plans for getting a college scholarship are threatened by his alcoholic father played by Malcolm Atterbury, and his relationship with the most popular girl in school. The plot is remarkably similar to that of Stanley Kubricks The Killing, released only three years previous. High School Big Shot was featured on an episode of the popular comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000. Filmed in 1958 under the title Blood Money, executive producer Roger Corman released the film as a double feature with TBird Gang in his first Filmgroup release.

At his parttime job at the docks, Marv overhears his boss plotting a drug transaction worthmillion cash. The money will be kept in the office safe prior to the deal. In despair, Marv plots to steal the money, with the help of safecracker Harry March and another accomplice, to cure troubles with his father and Betty and he secures 550,000 of the take for himself. He tells Betty about the pending robbery to entice her to marry him, and she apparently accedes. In reality she secretively tasks her boyfriend, Vince, to steal the money from Marv.Marv and his associates steal the money, but things then go horribly wrong when its discovered Marvs father has hanged himself, then Vince and two accomplices intervene and shoots one of Marvs unarmed associates, and he is horrified. When Betty arrives on the scene soon afterwards, Vince accuses her of making him do this, and he kills her, too. Vinces accomplices flee, but the police soon arrive. Marv is arrested and the money falls into the water, being lost. ........

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