Full film HD, UNTAMED YOUTH, 1957, Mamie Van Doren & Hank Cochran

Mamie Van Doren was Warner Brothers answer to Marilyn Monroe. The ad campaign for Untamed Youth (1957) was lurid and sensatio- nalisti, just like the movie itself. A low-budget, campy exploitation film designed to showcase the huge-chested, blonde starlet Mamie Van Doren, Untamed Youth succeeded both in making certain critics and morality crusaders rather angry, and in earning quite a bit of money for distributor Warner Brothers. (When the Catholic Legion of Decency condemned this movie, it only made more people want to see it.) Directed by Howard W. Koch (who in a few years would become head of production for Paramount Pictures) and produced by Koch’s longtime producing partner Aubrey Schenck, Untamed Youth has a script by John C. Higgins, talented writer of many films that are considered classics today, like T-Men (1947), Raw Deal (1948), Border Incident (1949) and Sabotage Agent (1943, story credit). In this one, which is not on the level of those others, Mamie Van Doren and co-star Lori N