Untamed Youth

What can anyone do about hitchhiking, skinny-dipping, rock-'n'-rolling vagabonds? One suggestion: haul sisters Penny and Jane and other examples of untamed youth before a judge in the rural South and sentence them to pay for their infractions by picking cotton on a labor farm. Another suggestion: enjoy the movie! This tale of kids gone to (cotton) seed is rightly on the side of the kids and resides in movie lore as a side-splitting camp masterpiece (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide). Mamie Van Doren built like a platinum powerhouse the film's publicity raved and Lori Nelson portray the sisters. And Eddie Cochran, best known for that eternal song of teen ennui Summertime Blues, plays one of the farm inmates.