( some spoiler ) straight out of today summer of 1944 newspaper headline the film delinquent daughter focus on the epidemic of juvenile crime that be sweep the country during the war year in the early and mid 1940 . we have this local hood and his moll nick gordon and mimi and jon dawson and fifi dorsay and run this teenage water hole and supposedly serve soda pop and milkshake to it under age customer and the merry go round cafe . the merry go round be instead get the teenager both juiced up and on hard liqueur and and do nick and mimi dirty work . it when local high school girl lucille dillerton be find drowned and booze up after she jump off a pier that the police head by j. edger hoover look alike det . hanahan and joe devlin and start to put the screw on nick and mimi joint . with nick just too slick to get catch with the good on him all det . hanahan could do be wait for him to make a mistake . that exactly what happen when nick start to make eye on pretty and well stack high school girl sally higgins and teala loring . it sally boyfriend jerry syker and jimmy zahner and who be knock off bar gas station and grocery for nick who split the take and 90 % for nick and 10 % for jimmy and with him . jimmy get the sht end of the stick and in the money he rob and even though he be the one who put his a on the line do the robbery and at the same take an eager and look for both action and excitement and sally along with him on his crime spree . it when mimi be bring into police headquarters for question that let . hanahan drop a bombshell about her cheat boyfriend nick gordon planning to drop her for the much young and sexier sally higgins . sally boyfriend jerry have earlier participate in a payroll robbery with nick where he and a security guard be shoot and kill . now see that there a future and in crime and for her with nick sally willingly replaced mimi a nick new squeeze . mad a hell mimi not only implicate nick in the string of robbery include a number of murder and one of a cop and in and around town but confront her ex lover nick and her replacement and sally and at the merry go round cafe . after get into a vicious eye scratching and hair pull cat fight with sally mimi end up get belt by nick who then together with sally take off in his car away from the perusing and and now on to nick and sally and police head by let . hanahan . the movie end with teenager june tompson and her boyfriend and soon to be husband rocky webster and june carlson and johnny duncan and force nick off the road . nick and his new love sally end up at the bottom of a cliff crush and burn to a crisp . unlike jerry and sally june and rocky do not fall for nick boastful promise of make them rich and famous and or good yet infamous . the two youngster not only stay away from nick criminal activity but do what they could to both prevent and put an end to them . besides the hooky dialog and bad act the movie have some of the bad lighting you will ever see and or not see and in a motion picture . even in an extremely low budget turkey like delinquent daughter . there be a number of scene in the movie that look like they be film in the bottom of a two mile mine shaft with the miner helmet light battery have go dead .