The Violent Years

The Violent Years is a 1956 American exploitation film starring Jean Moorhead as Paula Parkins, the leader of a gang of juvenile delinquent high school girls. The film is notable for the input of Ed Wood as author of its screenplay.

As a newspaperman, Paulas father has some inside information on police plans to capture the gang, so the girls are able to avoid capture with Mr. Parkins unwitting complicity. After a makeout party with a few local gangsters, Paula and her pals agree to wreck a few classrooms and destroy the American flag in a public school at the behest of a female crime boss. It is implied that this is part of an antiAmerican Communist plot. The girls perform the job with gleeful competence until the police arrive and a deadly shootout takes place, claiming the lives of two of Paulas gang while Paula shoots and kills a policeman. While escaping the policemen in a car chase, Paula crashes the car into a stores glass window injuring her but killing her last gang member. Paula is captured, convicted, and dies in the hospital giving birth to the child she conceived during the rape. The judge in Paulas case denies her parents custody of their granddaughter, based on the neglectful way they raised Paula.The cynical tag line So what? is used repeatedly by the girls to underscore their uncaring, nihilistic attitude. ........

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