High School Confidential is a very entertaining B Movie from the late fifties.I grew up watching films of this era so i wasn't surprised by the slang used in it,although i will admit a lot of what the character Tony says doesn't make much sense. In the seventies these teen films had become very dated where as now days they seem more authentic and interesting.If i wanted to watch a film about the 1950,s i would much rather see a film that was made then rather than view one which has been made today about this era,as they would never get it completely right.And whether this story is plausible or not the actors,cars,clothes, hairstyles are the real deal and the paranoia towards Marajuana is told from a 1950s point of view. The 1960s point of view was very different,so was the 70s and 80,s etc.I think most of the acting was very good especially from Russ Tamblyn whose character Tony Baker was invented by his real on screen character Mike Wilson so the character Tony Baker would be overblown and unbelievable because his not real.We are not supposed to take his made up character seriously,well i didn't anyway. The only real problem i had with High School Confidential is that his aunt Gwen is not his aunt Gwen as you find out later in the film,so who is she really?is she in on the confidentiality?its never explained.Any way other than that i found this to be a really fun film and the opening credits with Jerry Lee Lewis singing are great.
Review of High School Confidential!
