Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video (August 25 – 31) Welcome to the wonderfully wacky world of Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video! Take a walk on the wild side with troublesome teenagers, sleazy sex kittens, way-out hippies, country bumpkins, big bad bikers, Mexican wrestlers, and every other variety of social deviant you can think of.

Filmed as Blood Money, this was a double feature as High School Big Shot as the first double feature release — with T-Bird Gang — for Roger Corman’s Filmgroup.

Marv Grant (Pittman) has a pretty desperate life. His father (Malcolm Atterbury) is an abusive drunk, his girl Betty Alexander (Virginia Aldridge) was using him because he would write her essays and when he gets caught, his teacher not only fails her, he also ruins Marv’s chance of getting a scholarship. Then, Betty leaves him and goes back to her real boyfriend, Vince (Howard Veit).

He also has a dead end job on the docks, where he learns that his boss is running a million dollar heroin deal. He decides to work with safecracker Harry March (Stanley Adams) and brother-in-law Sam Tolman (Louis Quinn) to take the cash, which he hops can get his dad off the sauce and win back Betty. He tells her the plan and she gets Vince involved to steal all the money.

This all ends in the most depressing way possible. Marv’s father kills himself, Vince shoots and kills Sam, Betty shows up only for Vince to kill her and then the real criminals show up and shoot up Vince before the cops arrest everyone, even Marv. Some high school big shot he ended up being.

Director and writer Joel Rapp also shot The Battle of Blood Island before a career in TV.

You can watch this on Tubi.