# I Need A Good "Teen Delinquency" Movie From The 1950's
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-teen-delinquency-movie-from-the-1950s/657729
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 7, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-teen-delinquency-movie-from-the-1950s/657729 "2013-05-07T18:29:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@\_3Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_3Bill)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2013, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-teen-delinquency-movie-from-the-1950s/657729/21 "2013-05-10T10:45:22Z")
I was a Teenage Werewolf/Frankenstein
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### Author:  [@MsJinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsJinx)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-teen-delinquency-movie-from-the-1950s/657729/22 "2013-05-10T19:16:25Z")
The Cry Baby Killer (1958): “Nicholson makes his film debut as a juvenile delinquent, who panics when he thinks he’s committed murder.”
Peyton Place (1957) - the kids are more rebellious than delinquent
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### Author:  [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-teen-delinquency-movie-from-the-1950s/657729/23 "2013-05-10T20:31:23Z")
[Gang Boy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260040/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) (1954): "Two street gangs, one white and one Chicano, are on a course for a major clash until a friendly police officer suggests that they have a sit-down dinner together. "
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### Author:  [@dubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dubs)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-teen-delinquency-movie-from-the-1950s/657729/24 "2013-05-11T01:25:13Z")
I just watched [Young and Wild](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052416/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3) on Netflix. The poster shown on IMDB isn’t right–more 80s than 50s but it looks like Netflix has the correct poster.
[Violent Playground](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052367/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) has a young David McCallum. Interesting look at life for a lot of British teenagers after WWII. And it has a young David McCallum. Hooray! I can’t emphasize that enough.
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### Author:  [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-good-teen-delinquency-movie-from-the-1950s/657729/25 "2013-05-11T13:55:59Z")
If instead of the word ‘ **good** ’ you substitute ‘ **horrible, cornball, comedic propagandic nonsense** ’ I’d recommend the great MST3K film _[I Accuse My Parents](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Accuse_My_Parents)_…
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