SO YOUNG, SO BAD (1950) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Bernard Vorhaus
Paul Henried, Catherine McLeod, Grace Coppin,
Anne Frances, Anne Jackson, Rosita Moreno,
Cecil Clovelly, Enid Rudd, Mike Kellin
The newly arrived psychiatrist at a girls' reformatory runs into a wall of institutional resistance when he suggests that abuse and torture might not be the best way to rehabilitate delinquent teenagers. Hard-hitting (and effectively realized) pulp, with Frances, Jackson and Rosita (Rita) Moreno all in their first big-screen roles. Director Bernard Vorhaus and screenwriter Jean Rouveral were up against the blacklist at the time. Both would leave the country the following year.
