No Time to Be Young (1957)

User Rating:

8.5/10   

Director:

David Lowell Rich

Writers:

Raphael Hayes (writer)
John McPartland (screenplay)

Release Date:

August 1957 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

The story of today's "get lost" generation!

Plot Keywords:

Juvenile Delinquent | Beautiful Woman

Cast

Robert Vaughn	...	Buddy Root
Roger Smith	...	Bob Miller
Tom Pittman	...	Stu Bradley
Dorothy Green	...	Mrs. Doris Dexter
Merry Anders	...	Gloria Stuben
Kathleen Nolan	...	Tina Parner Bradley
Sarah Selby	...	Mrs. Helen Root

Also Known As:

Teenage Delinquents (UK)
The Big Day
The Young Rebels (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Typical Late 1950s "Troubled Youth" Melodrama, Notable for Vaughn's Presence

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Robert Vaughn is almost the whole show in this predictable, yet mildly interesting little film. First Vaughn is drafted into the military, then loses his student deferment for arguing with the dean at the local college, sleeps late, fights with his girlfriend and parents, then is talked into robbing the local supermarket by a couple of misguided friends. The robbery (naturally) goes awry, and Vaughn escapes with the loot stuffed into his shirt and heads for a local dance hall. Well...you know what happens next, the money falls out onto the dance floor, causing a free-for-all. Vaughn escapes in a truck and plunges to his doom while being chased by the law. Pretty strong moral there.

"No Time to Be Young" would be pretty much forgotten if not for Vaughn, in one of his first film roles. The remaining cast is not really notable, so Vaughn carries the film almost by himself, in a very good performance in an otherwise forgettable movie.