Mad at the World (1955)

Director:

Harry Essex

Writer:

Harry Essex (writer)

Release Date:

30 January 1959 (Finland)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

The infant baby of Sam and Anne Bennett is critically hurt after been hit by a bottle thrown by a gang...

Plot Keywords:

Delinquent | Kids And Family

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Frank Lovejoy	...	Police Capt. Tom Lynn
Keefe Brasselle	...	Sam Bennett aka Bill Holland
Cathy O'Donnell	...	Anne Bennett
Karen Sharpe	...	Tess
Stanley Clements	...	Marty aka Ignatz
Paul Bryar	...	Matt, Police Detective
Paul Dubov	...	Jamie Allison
James Delgado	...	Frank
Joe Turkel	...	Pete Johnson (as Joseph Turkel)
Aaron Spelling	...	Willie Hanson
Terence de Marney	...	Pop (as Terence DeMarny)
Estes Kefauver	...	Himself, Pre-Title Prologue (as Senator Estes Kefauver)

Runtime:

76 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Finland:(Banned) (1959) | Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company:

Filmakers, The

It takes a while before reality is suspended in this one.

This begins with Wolf-Pack gang members...no, wait it begins with a prologue spoken by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver saying..."When young people become angry and violent, it affects the whole community...your town and mine. Anger breeds anger, until finally it sweeps over all age groups. Here now, is a story of how one police department in a great American city fought to bring this destructive human fire under control"...and then Wolf-Pack gang members Paul Dubov, James Delgado, and Spanley Clements go "on the town" and make an unprovoked attack on a young family.

The infant baby of Keefe Brasselle and Cathy O'Donnell is critically hurt after been hit by a bottle thrown by the hoodlums. Police Detective Frank Lovejoy takes charge of the investigation. Orders shakedown of youth gangs in the city's toughest section---pick up Aaron Spelling for one---but this fails to locate members of the Wolf-Pack gang. Savage beating is given innocent witness by Brasselle, who takes matters in his own hands in the belief that the law authorities are too slow. Plausible. Brasselle slugs Lovejoy and rushes out to make a one-man probe of the gang. Still plausible. Brasselle locates Karen Sharpe, girlfriend of the Wolf-Packers, and she says she likes being useful and what can she do for Brasselle. He asks her to get him into the gang.

Karen Sharpe is leaning over her bed and asks Brasselle what can she do to be "useful" and all he asks for is an address? Not plausible.