***SPOILERS*** The movie "Blue Denim" obviously named after the pants that it's star Brandon DeWild's, Arthur "Art" Bartley, wears in the film tackles the very tricky and taboo subject of teenage pregnancy and, a word never once uttered in the film, abortion.
It's when 16 year old Arthur Bartley fell in love with his cute and innocent next door neighbor Janet Willard, Carol Lynley, that what at first was a case of puppy love turned into something far more serious. It's wasn't until a few months later that Arthur found out that he in fact and put Janet in the "family way" and that just about destroyed both his and Janet's future in going to collage and becoming a lawyer or in Janet's case registered nurse! Making an already bad situation even worse Arthur gets in touch with his best friend "know it all" Ernie, Warren Berlinger, who claims that he can fix his and Janet's pressing problem by getting a back alley abortion doctor to prevent Janet and Arthur's unborn baby from going full term! The only problem is that "Know it all" Ernie is full of BS about knowing any doctor that can get the job down for the two desperate teens!
While all this is going on Arthur starts to have second thoughts in having his and Janet's own flesh and blood, as he describes it, murdered just to keep his parents Maj. Malcolm Bartley Ret., Macdonald Carey, and Jessie Willard, Marash Hunt,from knowing the truth about the mess that he got himself into! As for Janet her widower pop Professor Willard, Vaughn Taylor, who thinks the world of her can end up suffering a stroke or heart attack in he found out what she and her boyfriend Arthur did to themselves!
***SPOILERS*** The film has both Arthur and Janet go so far as finding a abortion doctor, Sam Buffington,through a local soda jerk, Anthony J. Corso, that want's $150.00 up front and in cash to do the "job" for them . It's when Janet is about to go under on Dr. Buffington's makeshift operation table that Arthur gets a change of heart and together with his and Janet's pop storm the doc's office and prevent the abortion from happening! Very touching ending with both Arthur and Janet, who was secretly checking out of town, reunited on a train to Janet's Aunt's place to have both her and Arthur's child born, and brought up by Auntie, before she can come back home without anybody in town noticing it.
Yes it was terrible what happened by Arthur and Janet not watching themselves in getting into the terrible mess that they found themselves in but it would have been far far worse by having their innocent baby aborted before it even had a chance to live. And by doing the right thing both Arthur and Janet prevented a very bad situation for becoming a full fledged disaster which they would have to live with for the rest of their lives!
It's when 16 year old Arthur Bartley fell in love with his cute and innocent next door neighbor Janet Willard, Carol Lynley, that what at first was a case of puppy love turned into something far more serious. It's wasn't until a few months later that Arthur found out that he in fact and put Janet in the "family way" and that just about destroyed both his and Janet's future in going to collage and becoming a lawyer or in Janet's case registered nurse! Making an already bad situation even worse Arthur gets in touch with his best friend "know it all" Ernie, Warren Berlinger, who claims that he can fix his and Janet's pressing problem by getting a back alley abortion doctor to prevent Janet and Arthur's unborn baby from going full term! The only problem is that "Know it all" Ernie is full of BS about knowing any doctor that can get the job down for the two desperate teens!
While all this is going on Arthur starts to have second thoughts in having his and Janet's own flesh and blood, as he describes it, murdered just to keep his parents Maj. Malcolm Bartley Ret., Macdonald Carey, and Jessie Willard, Marash Hunt,from knowing the truth about the mess that he got himself into! As for Janet her widower pop Professor Willard, Vaughn Taylor, who thinks the world of her can end up suffering a stroke or heart attack in he found out what she and her boyfriend Arthur did to themselves!
***SPOILERS*** The film has both Arthur and Janet go so far as finding a abortion doctor, Sam Buffington,through a local soda jerk, Anthony J. Corso, that want's $150.00 up front and in cash to do the "job" for them . It's when Janet is about to go under on Dr. Buffington's makeshift operation table that Arthur gets a change of heart and together with his and Janet's pop storm the doc's office and prevent the abortion from happening! Very touching ending with both Arthur and Janet, who was secretly checking out of town, reunited on a train to Janet's Aunt's place to have both her and Arthur's child born, and brought up by Auntie, before she can come back home without anybody in town noticing it.
Yes it was terrible what happened by Arthur and Janet not watching themselves in getting into the terrible mess that they found themselves in but it would have been far far worse by having their innocent baby aborted before it even had a chance to live. And by doing the right thing both Arthur and Janet prevented a very bad situation for becoming a full fledged disaster which they would have to live with for the rest of their lives!