- Girls Town
Infobox Film | name = Girls Town
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caption = Girls Town movie poster.jpg
director =Charles F. Haas
producer =
writer =Robert Hardy Andrews
Robert Smith
starring =Mamie van Doren
Mel Tormé
Ray Anthony
Paul Anka
music =
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = MGM
released = 1959 (U.S. release)
runtime = 90 min.
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0052850"Girls Town" was a 1959 film produced by MGM, starring
Mamie Van Doren ,Mel Tormé andRay Anthony ;Paul Anka also appears in his first acting role. A juvenile delinquent is sent to a girls school run by nuns, where she finds herself unable to help her sister. The film capitalizes on the 1950s rebellious teenexploitation film s, full of cat-fights, races, music from Anka andThe Platters , and sexy outfits."Girls Town" was lampooned in September 1994 on movie-mocking television series "
Mystery Science Theater 3000 ". About 15 minutes of the actual film was cut from this version.Plot
The movie opens as a young woman, fending off her grabby date, watches him accidentally fall over a cliff to his death. Circumstantial evidence places 16-year-old delinquent Silver (played by a 27-year-old Van Doren) at the scene and she is sent to Girls Town, a rehabilitation village run by a group of nuns. There she lives with Serafina (
Gigi Perreau ) and two tough chicks. Trouble and misunderstandings ensue. Troublemaker Fred (Tormé) saw the cliff incident from a distance and realizes it was Silver's sister who was there: Mary Lee (Elinor Donahue , from "Father Knows Best "). Fred blackmails Mary Lee into being his partner in deadly "hands-off drag racing," then prepares to take her to Tijuana to sell her into the slave trade. Silver finally wins the respect of her Girls Town friends, but can they rescue Mary Lee?A side plot involves Serafina swooning over famous singer Jimmy (Anka). While visiting town, as well as Girls Town, he sings "Lonely Boy", "It's Time to Cry", "Girls Town Blues", and "Ave Maria". A scene set in a night club features The Platters singing "Wish It Were Me".
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