Teenage Doll
by Roger Corman
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Actor: Barbara Wilson, Colette Jackson, Fay Spain, John Brinkley, June KenneyDirector: Roger Corman
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Floyd Crosby
Producer: Roger Corman
Editor: Charles Gross
Producer: Bernard Woolner
Producer: Lawrence Woolner
Writer: Charles B. Griffith
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 71 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-02-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
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Movie Review: Kooky Corman JD pic in nice, clean DVD package
Summary: 4 Stars
The second and final co-production between Roger Corman and the Woolner Brothers (released by Allied Artists), Teenage Doll is easily on par or better than any of Cormans AIP juvenile delinquent epics. The relatively dark story of good-girl June Kenney running afoul of bad-girl gang (headed by Fay Spain) and winding up involved in a murder is played basically straight. More compelling than other contemporary JD dreck like, say Hot Rod Gang or High School Confidential (both of which I also like a lot for different reasons), Teenage Doll contains a handful of those uniquely twisted Corman/Charles B. Griffith sick/icky/creepy moments (e.g., Fay Spain appears to be living in Walter Paisleys trash-strewn apartment with her malnourished baby sister), as well as lots of goofy hep-talk and an effective rumble scene set in an auto salvage yard. However, if youre expecting steamy sleaze, based on the films misleading advertising materials, you may be a bit disappointed. The cast includes a number of familiar Corman regulars including John Brinkley, Barboura Morris, Richard Devon, Dorothy Neumann, Ed Nelson, and Bruno VeSota, not to mention the sultry Ziva (Pharaohs Curse) Rodan. The stark B&W cinematography is by Floyd (Davids dad) Crosby. The DVD presentation is minimal but very clean. An excellent-condition trailer with some light speckling/scratching, chapter stops, and four bonus trailers are the only extras, but the source print used for the feature is in terrific shape. The tonal values, brightness, contrast, sharpness, and detail are uniformly excellent and there is only some very light speckling evident. Considering how few decent DVDs are out there so far for the 50s JD aficionado (this is about the only one Im aware of), genre fans might as well snap this up.
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