all right . all you really need to know about untamed youth be that it star mamie van doren . you know and jayne mansfield lite . the plain label version of marilyn monroe . go see it if you like movie with her in them . still here . well and for what it be and it isn not bad . it an exploitation film which revel in the youth and sexuality of it cast while hypocritically preach against the bad guy who would exploit them . you know the kind . there a heavy hand screenplay which moralize about corrupt official and exploited teenager who just wan na dance and and owe your soul to the company store . mamie and the kid triumph in the end because you just can not keep a good girl down . ed wood would have be proud to have write this screenplay . and ed usual ensemble cast would have fit right in here . you do not expect real act in a movie like this ( any more than you would in a republic serial like commando cody ) and and you do not get it . everyone say their line and hit their mark and and everyone be appropriate to the material and the script . waddaya want from them . they be hack . do i mention that untamed youth have stag musical number ( apparently to showcase mamie musical talent ) along with the usual scene of the untamed youth ( s ) dance ecstatically to the juke box or sock hop . in fact they make the mistake of have mamie sing three of the number ( because in the script she and her sister be hitch hiking to hollywood to make it big and donchaknow ) . i will try to be kind represent my little sister could sing ( and dance ) ring around mamie after 3 year of voice lesson and and my sister never make a dime singing or dance professionally in her life . so what you get from mamie be all showbiz gesture and tail feather shaking and no vocal talent . but no one expect real singing from mamie and so just turn up the mental audio static and watch the dance step and and you will keep the annoyance factor to a manageable level . and try not to think too much about who owe who a favor in hollywood and how someone with van doren musical talent get to sing in front of a camera . much of the rest of the music and some of the dance isn not bad at all . some of it be even striking . i have learn that eddie cochran be involve in some of the number and which may explain this . unfortunately and however and in almost every group dance number and one of the minor male actor be featured repeatedly in the background do the dorkiest and weird dance . thing . ever film . i can not do it justice . it involve flap his knee open and close in a no hand charleston while stay on his tip toe and while his torso stay perfectly erect . you will have to see it to believe it . so minus several star for scar me emotionally with that image . btw and i saw that identical move ( year later ) in another film call teenage strangler and perform by what i could have swear be the very same actor and and it again make me want to put my eye out with a hot poker . where eddie deezen when you need him . i should mention that lori nelson ( play van doren little sister ) be also pretty hot in a my three son kind of way and and she add some nice eye candy to the scene she appear in and kind of a sweet balance to mamie brash and more assertive style . so that one thing the film maker do right . to summarize represent it a mamie van doren film ( with an faux ed wood screenplay ) that pretend that mamie can sing and dance . and act . go see it if you like that sort of thing . me and i do not blame any of the cast or crew for try to make a living and but i think i will go back and listen to my old kay kyser record .