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17 August 1958 (USA)
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YESTERDAY a Teenage Rebel... TODAY a mad-dog slayer!
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Nicholson makes his film debut as a juvenile delinquent, who panics when he thinks he's committed murder. Full summary » | Add synopsis »
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(6 articles)
Famous Film Debuts: The First Roles Of Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson And More
(From Moviefone. 9 April 2012, 1:48 PM, PDT)
Nicholson Tears Up During Corman Tribute
(From WENN. 15 December 2011, 5:36 PM, PST)
Documentary Catch Up: 'Undefeated,' 'Page One,' 'Buck,' 'Corman's World,' 'If a Tree Falls' and 'We Were Here'
(From Rope Of Silicon. 6 December 2011, 10:20 AM, PST)
(From Moviefone. 9 April 2012, 1:48 PM, PDT)
Nicholson Tears Up During Corman Tribute
(From WENN. 15 December 2011, 5:36 PM, PST)
Documentary Catch Up: 'Undefeated,' 'Page One,' 'Buck,' 'Corman's World,' 'If a Tree Falls' and 'We Were Here'
(From Rope Of Silicon. 6 December 2011, 10:20 AM, PST)
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this rare find is completely watchable on one level, almost in spite of itself...
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Cast
(in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification) | Harry Lauter | ... | Police Lt. Porter |
 | Jack Nicholson | ... | Jimmy Wallace |
| Carolyn Mitchell | ... | Carole Fields |
 | Brett Halsey | ... | Manny Cole |
| Lynn Cartwright | ... | Julie |
| Ralph Reed | ... | Joey |
| John Shay | ... | Police Officer Gannon |
| Barbara Knudson | ... | Mrs. Maxton |
| William A. Forester | ... | Carl Maxton |
| John Weed | ... | Police Sgt. Reed |
| Frank Richards | ... | Pete Gambelli |
 | Bill Erwin | ... | Mr. Wallace |
| James Fillmore | ... | Al |
| Smoki Whitfield | ... | Sam (as Jordan 'Smoki' Whitfield) |
 | Ed Nelson | ... | Rick Connor |
 | Mitzi McCall | ... | Evelyn |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Roger Corman | ... | Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited) |
| Leo Gordon | ... | Man in Crowd (uncredited) |
| Claude Stroud | ... | Werner (uncredited) |
| Ruth Swanson | ... | Mrs. Wallace (uncredited) |
| Bruno VeSota | ... | Man in Crowd (uncredited) |
| Herb Vigran | ... | John Lawson - Gambelli's Lawyer (uncredited) |
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| Jus Addiss | (as Joe Addis) | ||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Leo Gordon | screenplay | |
| Leo Gordon | story | |
| Melvin Levy | writer | |
Produced by | |||
| Roger Corman | .... | executive producer | |
| David Kramarsky | .... | producer | |
| David March | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Gerald Fried | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Floyd Crosby | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Irene Morra | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Don Ament | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| David Newell | .... | makeup artist | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Robert Agnew | .... | assistant director | |
Art Department | |||
| Harry Reif | .... | set dressing | |
| Richard M. Rubin | .... | property master | |
Sound Department | |||
| Philip Mitchell | .... | sound (as Phil Mitchell) | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Nelson Cordes | .... | camera operator | |
| Charles Hannawalt | .... | key grip (as Charles Hanawalt) | |
| John Millman | .... | gaffer | |
Music Department | |||
| Dick Kallman | .... | composer: song "Cry Baby Cry" | |
Other crew | |||
| Stanley Bickman | .... | assistant to producer | |
| Bill Martin | .... | title designer | |
| Donna M. Norridge | .... | script supervisor (as Donna Norridge) | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Allied Artists Pictures (1958) (USA) (theatrical)
- Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE) (2006) (USA) (DVD)
- Video Beat (????) (USA) (DVD)
- Video Beat (????) (USA) (VHS)
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70 min | USA:75 min (director's cut)
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This was Jack Nicholson's film debut.See more »
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Featured in "E! True Hollywood Story: Jack Nicholson" (2005)See more »
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You'd know why you'd want to find this film, as it's the ultra-low budget, barely-a-drive-in quickie that features the great Jack Nicholson in his feature debut at the tender age of 21 (he was a mailman at MGM in his previous years in Hollywood). He plays a youth out of control, though also under duress. He's taken a woman and kid hostage, and outside the crowd builds in anticipation as the cops struggle to find a compromise to get everyone safely out. The film is complete with a theme song that just repeats 'cry-cry-cry, cry-baby killer', and in a style that is as polished as a junkyard dog. The story itself, by the way, is told in a way that is so simplistic and with over-acting (or maybe too trying-to-be-realistic acting) that is typical of this kind of un-pretentiously kind of fare. '' But the reason in the end to reach into the recesses of ebay or elsewhere to find it is to see Nicholson in his early larval stage of a career, and somehow he does make the work fascinating to watch. Obviously not his best by a long-shot, and his first big break in the B-world would come later in Little Shop of Horrors and even later in Easy Rider. However I did like how he was keeping his scenes pretty well grounded, keeping to the situation at hand with all of the confusion and shattered rebellion that's in a youth of his real age. It's almost like checking out the Beatles when they were still the Quarry Men or something- it's not necessarily 'good', but you might be surprised at how it's not really bad either.