**Possible spoilers ahead**
Another black-and-white drug scare flick that belongs on the same shelf (or in the same wastebasket) as REEFER MADNESS and COCAINE FIENDS. With confusing flashbacks-within-flashbacks, this howler tells the sad story of a schoolgirl (Barbara Marks) who smokes some of that evil weed, drops out of school, gets hooked on Seconal, deserts her new husband, gets hooked on heroin, etc. The actors never talk so instead of dorky dialogue we get to hear a monotonous monologue. Narrator Kurt Marter only comes to life when he spouts such nonsense as "Addicts have a strange code of ethics!" The opening theme music is bad enough to have been composed by Herschell Gordon Lewis and the rest, incredibly, is worse. A monkey with a tin ear could have done better. Marks later worked as an editor on another clunker, Albert Brooks' LOST IN AMERICA. Drug addiction isn't funny but some of the movies it's spawned over the years have been a real scream. I hope Ed Wood Jr. found 58 free minutes during his troubled life to watch TEENAGE DEVIL DOLLS. He probably would have considered it a masterpiece.
Another black-and-white drug scare flick that belongs on the same shelf (or in the same wastebasket) as REEFER MADNESS and COCAINE FIENDS. With confusing flashbacks-within-flashbacks, this howler tells the sad story of a schoolgirl (Barbara Marks) who smokes some of that evil weed, drops out of school, gets hooked on Seconal, deserts her new husband, gets hooked on heroin, etc. The actors never talk so instead of dorky dialogue we get to hear a monotonous monologue. Narrator Kurt Marter only comes to life when he spouts such nonsense as "Addicts have a strange code of ethics!" The opening theme music is bad enough to have been composed by Herschell Gordon Lewis and the rest, incredibly, is worse. A monkey with a tin ear could have done better. Marks later worked as an editor on another clunker, Albert Brooks' LOST IN AMERICA. Drug addiction isn't funny but some of the movies it's spawned over the years have been a real scream. I hope Ed Wood Jr. found 58 free minutes during his troubled life to watch TEENAGE DEVIL DOLLS. He probably would have considered it a masterpiece.