Youth Runs Wild

1944
Approved
1h 7min

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4,8/10

470

MA NOTE

Jean Brooks, Bonita Granville, and Dickie Moore in Youth Runs Wild (1944)

The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.

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8 photos

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.

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NOTE IMDb

4,8/10

470

MA NOTE

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Vidéos1

Trailer 1:22

Official Trailer

Photos8

Rôles principaux53

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Bonita Granville

Toddy Jones

Kent Smith

Danny Coates

Jean Brooks

Mary Coates

Glen Vernon

Frankie Hauser
(as Glenn Vernon)

Vanessa Brown

Sarah Taylor
(as Tessa Brind)

Ben Bard

Mr. Taylor

Mary Servoss

Cora Hauser

Arthur Shields

Mr. Dunlop

Lawrence Tierney

Larry Duncan

Dickie Moore

Georgie Dunlop

Johnny Walsh

Herb Vigero

Rod Rogers

Rocky
(as Rod Rodgers)

Elizabeth Russell

Mabel Taylor

Joan Barclay

Girl with Blanche
(non crédité)

Harold Barnitz

Stevie Coates
(non crédité)

Joan Blair

Mrs. Loring
(non crédité)

Stanley Blystone

Policeman in Opening Montage
(non crédité)

Tom Burton

Corporal Jim Hayes
(non crédité)

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Anecdotes
RKO tested two versions of the film - the one completed by producer Val Lewton and one where several controversial and violent scenes were cut. The final film is the latter version, causing Lewton to disavow the film and tried to have his name removed from the credits.

Citations
Frank 'Frankie' Hauser: Boy, if my folks would only let me work. Then I could do all the things I want to do. I could take you dancing, the way you like to go, places you like to go to. You know, they need welders. They need 'em worse than soldiers.
Sarah Taylor: But your mother wants you to go to school, Frankie.
Frank 'Frankie' Hauser: Yeah. That's the trouble.

Connexions
Featured in Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005)

Bandes originales
Jingle Bells
(1857)
Written by James Pierpont
Sung a cappella by an off-screen child in the day care center

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Lewton Away From the Horror Genre

Youth Runs Wild (1944)

** (out of 4)

Val Lewton produced this WW2 drama about teenagers who start getting into trouble while the older folks are either working or fighting in the war. Lewton hated horror films and wanted to be taken more serious and I guess this film was his attempt to do that but the movie is really boring and bland. The strange thing is that Lewton's horror films didn't contain much horror and this juvenile film doesn't contain too much stuff dealing with the subject. There's a subplot of a tire stealing ring, another story dealing with teenage love and yet another dealing with a soldier returning home. None of them work and together they just make for a mess of a film. The film should have centered on one story and followed it but as it is the film just becomes tiresome even at 67-minutes. Bonita Granville of Warner's Nancy Drew series gets top billing but she too is rather bland, which was a disappointment since I enjoyed most of her early roles. Glenn Vernon, Kent Smith and Lawrence Tierney co-star.