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Youth Runs Wild (1944)
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TIMELY! TRUTHFUL! (original ad under alternate title "Are These Our Children" - all caps) more
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During WWII, adults are either off fighting or busy in the factories, so juvenile delinquency becomes a major problem back home...
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Home Front
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Delinquent
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Card Game
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Ought to have been much better
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Bonita Granville | ... | 'Toddy' Jones |
| Kent Smith | ... | Danny Coates |
| Jean Brooks | ... | Mary Hauser Coates |
| Glen Vernon | ... | Frank Hauser (as Glenn Vernon) |
| Vanessa Brown | ... | Sarah Taylor (as Tessa Brind) |
| Ben Bard | ... | Mr. Taylor |
| Mary Servoss | ... | Mrs. Cora Hauser |
| Arthur Shields | ... | Father Killed by His Son (scenes deleted) |
| Lawrence Tierney | ... | Larry Duncan |
| Johnny Walsh | ... | Herb Vigero |
| Rod Rodgers | ... | Rocky |
| Elizabeth Russell | ... | Mrs. Mabel Taylor |
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67 min
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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The movie did poorly at the box office and lost $45,000.
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Featured in Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007) (TV)
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My Shining Hour
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I was confused early in this movie. The story seemed to jump around. Characters it was assumed we know were unclear. In the movies for which Val Lewton is famous, this would be unthinkable.
The point of view shifts, too. So we find it difficult to care about any of the characters: We don't really know them. They are types: They're cardboard cut-outs.
It's essentially a juvenile delinquent movie. The kids are not that delinquent, though. Neither do they really come across as kids.
Their parents are cold and uncaring. But on the other hand: The war is going on. One mother apparently works in a munitions plant or some other patriotic spot. So we can't fault them totally.
In some ways the biggest kick of the film comes from the casting of one relatively small role: Of all people, Lawrence Tierney plays a basically decent guy. He doesn't want to see the youth start to run wild. That soon changed, in terms of his casting.