Also known as Cruisin’ High, this stars two actors from another 1976 teens in trouble movie, Derrel Maury and Steve Bond, who were in Massacre at Central High AKA Sexy Jeans. As for the titular Eddie “Cat” Murkil, actor David Kyle is now a missionary and religious speaker after being an actor and male prostitute.

Eddie and the Silks are white kids playing around at being a gang, which means stealing cars, robbing businesses, fighting with other gangs and because this is a 70s drive-in movie, sleeping around. Eddie’s brother Joey (Bond) has already been through all of this and tries to warn his sibling to go straight. He kills Punch, the leader of the gang, takes over and pretty much gets them all killed when he rumbles with a Latino gang. He’s also trying to make time with his brother’s wife, except she’s already cheating on his brother, so he ties up her new man and shoots her in the lady parts. This is a scene at odds with some of the hijinks here, just like the shower stabbing scene earlier.

Either you look like a kid or a twenty-year-old teenager in this.

But hey, vans are cruising, which is what I watch movies for.

In case you recognize Eddie, well, he’s Judith Myers’ boyfriend.

This was re-released as its alternate title in 1979, Cruisin’ High, with a different ad campaign, then again under that name on VHS in 1985 with a totally different look, trying to be tougher than it is. That’s funny because it cut all of the gun violence and the shower stabbing.

In Germany, it was released as CATS – Die Klasse von 1976, in Spain as Eddie el gato and had two incredible working titles: L.A. Gangs Rising and Street Kids of America.

Also, as I always note this, Doodles Weaver is in this!

You can watch this on Tubi.