- For the episode, see MST3K 522 - Teen-Age Crime Wave.
Teen-Age Crime Wave is a 1955 crime film directed by Fred Sears.
Plot[]
Terry is a bitter young woman with a criminal record who had suffered through an abusive childhood. Jane is a naïf who agrees to go on a double date with Terry while the latter seduces a doughy bar patron in order to rob him. The planned robbery is foiled, and the two are arrested and booked. Jane's parents disown her over her error in judgement, and the two young women are sentenced to incarceration.
Mike, Terry's violent boyfriend, intercepts the car that is carrying the women to prison and they make their escape. They take refuge in a farmhouse and terrorize the family within (a couple who seem to be in their 60s, later joined by their son visiting from college) while waiting for an accomplice to arrive with money, guns, and transportation. While waiting, Mike threatens everyone and kills a visiting neighbor. Meanwhile Terry tries to seduce the couple's son, and Jane's parents reconsider their position.
The police intercept the accomplice on his way to the farmhouse, so the young criminals take a hostage in a car and end up at the Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles where they engage in a showdown with police.
Cast[]
- Tommy Cook as Mike Denton
- Molly McCart as Terry Marsh
- Sue England as Jane Koberly
- Frank Griffin as Ben Grant
- Kay Riehl as Sarah Grant
- James Bell as Paul Grant
- Larry J. Blake as Sgt. Connors
- Robert Bice as Patrolman Smith
- George Cisar as Fred
- Jimmy Ogg as Al
- Don C. Harvey as Policeman
Notes[]
- An advertising campaign tried to promote Molly McCart's short haircut as the next fashion, but it was not successful.
MST3K Connections[]
- Larry J. Blake also portrayed an Illinois highway patrolman in Beginning of the End and a police officer in I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
- Robert Bice also portrayed George Sylvester and was dialogue director for Invasion USA.
- George Cisar also portrayed Lem Sawyer in Attack of the Giant Leeches.
- Don C. Harvey also portrayed a guard at the lab in Beginning of the End and Mac in Revenge of the Creature.
- Sydney Mason (Bill Salisbury) also portrayed a police announcer in Revenge of the Creature
- Paul McGuire (Deputy Mannerly) also had an unspecified role in Gunslinger.
- Sol Murgi (bar patron) also portrayed a restaurant patron in The Corpse Vanishes.
- Jimmy Ogg also portrayed a floor manager in The Space Children.
- Producer Sam Katzman was also producer for The Corpse Vanishes (in which he also portrayed a man in the newspaper office).
- Art director Paul Palmentola was also art director for I Accuse My Parents.
- Stock music composer Leith Stevens was also composer for World Without End and stock music composer for Women of the Prehistoric Planet, the U.S. version of Hercules and the Captive Women, The Human Duplicators, and The Phantom Planet.