Mamie Van Doren and Lori Nelson a pair of blond sisters do a bit of skinny dipping
while making their way to California. They get picked up by the local law and get
sentenced to 30 days on a prison farm run by John Russell.
They grow cotton on the Russell plantation and that's just about how he treats the prisoners. Feeding them on cheap slop and paying next to nothing Russell gets a steady supply of labor courtesy of his wife Judge Lurene Tuttle. She's a recent widow and it's more than hinted at that Tuttle has some itch that needs scratching.
Even before Cesar Chavez organized the farm workers apparently even they were paid better than Russell's convict labor. Scarlett O'Hara would be proud.
It's not all bad, it's a coed prison farm with a coed prison recreation hall that has a jukebox. The prisoners also includ Eddie Cochran before he found there was no cure for the summertime blues.
When Yvonne Lime dies from overwork and lack of pre-natal care that marks the beginning of the end for Russell's set up. Besides our blond leads young Don Burnett who is Tuttle's son by her first marriage helps bring his wilfully naive mother to her senses.
Untamed Youth is trash through and through. But Mamie while she can't act is sure nice to look it. John Russell resisted the urge I'm sure to camp up his villainy and plays it painfully straight. Then there's Eddie Cochran to sing a bit.
Still anyone who thinks this film is worthwhile is out of his cotton pickin' mind.
They grow cotton on the Russell plantation and that's just about how he treats the prisoners. Feeding them on cheap slop and paying next to nothing Russell gets a steady supply of labor courtesy of his wife Judge Lurene Tuttle. She's a recent widow and it's more than hinted at that Tuttle has some itch that needs scratching.
Even before Cesar Chavez organized the farm workers apparently even they were paid better than Russell's convict labor. Scarlett O'Hara would be proud.
It's not all bad, it's a coed prison farm with a coed prison recreation hall that has a jukebox. The prisoners also includ Eddie Cochran before he found there was no cure for the summertime blues.
When Yvonne Lime dies from overwork and lack of pre-natal care that marks the beginning of the end for Russell's set up. Besides our blond leads young Don Burnett who is Tuttle's son by her first marriage helps bring his wilfully naive mother to her senses.
Untamed Youth is trash through and through. But Mamie while she can't act is sure nice to look it. John Russell resisted the urge I'm sure to camp up his villainy and plays it painfully straight. Then there's Eddie Cochran to sing a bit.
Still anyone who thinks this film is worthwhile is out of his cotton pickin' mind.