Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues From the film: Untamed Youth (1957)

Untamed Youth is a 1957 American drama film directed by Howard W. Koch, written by John C. Higgins and Stephen Longstreet, and starring Mamie Van Doren and Lori Nelson as two starstruck sisters who are sentenced to farm labor. According to a reviewer for the New York Times who witnessed the movie’s premiere in 1957, Untamed Youth sought to “portray sisters who run afoul of the law and are sent to a prison farm populated almost entirely by rock ’n’ roll addicts, Call it a fate almost worse than death.“ Decades later, the film was featured on an early episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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