i just finish watch high school confidential on tcm and and it even bad than i remember it be when i first watch it 50 year ago at a drive in theater . i know how misguide the plot be even back in 1958. be a 16 year old teenager at the time and it bug me and because the movie in no way represent my generation . like the guy i hang around with and we all felt that it be just an old adult impression of what they think it be like and to be a teenager at the time . talk jive and beatnik poetry and grown adult play the part of teenager and use expression like and crazy man and i dig it the most and and weed head . hot rod and roadster be popular at the time and but no teenager try to be cool and would be catch dead drive a chrysler imperial convertable a his car of choice . even bad and the film promote the false impression that smoke a joint be highly addictive and cause one to become totally drug craze and ala refer madness . and that those who do smoke a joint and automatically move right on up to heroin afterward . i think movie like this one and do little in try to persuade teenager in the 1950s to be good and because they fail to keep it real . it be so over the top in every way and that it end up be a comedic parody of itself .