Ben Saul (Scott Marlowe) is a reform school graduate who is starts classes at a public high school and wins over the students by buying beer for them and getting them into weed. He’s actually working for the syndicate and things start getting out of hand when a kid tries to hold up a gas station and gets killed. Of course, Ben starts getting high on his own supply and of course, he dies because that’s the moral of this movie.
This was produced by Elmer Rhoden Jr of the Kansas City-based Commonwealth Theaters, a prominent chain of motion picture theaters that needed low-budget teen exploitation films. The first movie he made, The Delinquents, was directed by Robert Altman. This would be the second film he made, which was directed by William Witney and written by Richard C. Sarafian.
It was picked up by American International Pictures and ended up being one of their bigger juvenile delinquent movies. It was so realistic that Richard Bakalyan and Dickie Jones were arrested by Kansas City police for vagrancy in between filming.
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