College Confidential (1960)

Director:

Albert Zugsmith

Writers:

Irving Shulman (screenplay)
Albert Zugsmith (story)

Release Date:

4 August 1961 (Finland)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

No Film Ever Dared Touch This Theme Before!

Plot:

Sociology professor Steve McInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people...

Plot Keywords:

Survey | Professor | College | Sociology Professor | Reporter

Cast

Steve Allen	...	Steve 'Mac' Macinter
Jayne Meadows	...	Betty Duquesne
Walter Winchell	...	Himself
Mickey Shaughnessy	...	Sam Grover
Herbert Marshall	...	Professor Henry Addison
Cathy Crosby	...	Fay Grover
Conway Twitty	...	Marvin
Randy Sparks	...	Phil
Pamela Mason	...	Edna Blake
Rocky Marciano	...	Deputy Sheriff
Sheilah Graham	...	Herself
Earl Wilson	...	Himself
Louis Sobol	...	Himself
Elisha Cook Jr.	...	Ted Blake (as Elisha Cook)
Ziva Rodann	...	Gogo Lazlo
Theona Bryant	...	Lois Addison
Nancy Root	...	Young Girl
William Wellman Jr.	...	Bob
Norman Grabowski	...	Skippy (as Woo Woo Grabowski)
Robert Montgomery Jr.	...	Boy
Mamie Van Doren	...	Sally Blake
James Bacon	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jack Carr	...	Whitley (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum	...	Townsman (uncredited)
Stuart Randall	...	Sheriff (uncredited)
Hal Taggart	...	Extra (uncredited)

Directed by
Albert Zugsmith

Writing credits
Irving Shulman		(screenplay)
Albert Zugsmith		(story)

Produced by
Albert Zugsmith	....	producer

Original Music by
Dean Elliott

Cinematography by
Carl E. Guthrie		(as Carl Guthrie)

Film Editing by
Edward Curtiss

Art Direction by
Malcolm Brown		(as Malcolm F. Brown)
Alexander Golitzen

Set Decoration by
Julia Heron

Makeup Department
Larry Germain	....	hair stylist
Bud Westmore	....	makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ralph E. Black	....	assistant director (as Ralph Black)

Sound Department
Waldon O. Watson	....	sound
Frank H. Wilkinson	....	sound

Music Department
Steve Allen	....	songs
Dean Elliott	....	conductor
Randy Sparks	....	songs
Conway Twitty	....	songs

Other crew
George Rutter	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Famous Players
• Allen-Meadows (in association with)
• Albert Zugsmith Productions

Distributors

• Universal Pictures (1960) (USA) (theatrical)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

UK:X | Finland:K-12

Filming Locations:

Corriganville, Ray Corrigan Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA

Company:

Famous Players

Trivia:

In the film, Walter Winchell describes Sally Blake as a "Mamie Van Doren-type." Sally is played by Mamie Van Doren.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Walter Winchell:[reading from script into microphone] Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea. Sociology quizzes and sex questionnaires are on the docket today at Collins College. Midnight parties and midnight moving pictures classified in police files but not in college catalogs are catapulting a little college town into the big city headlines...

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Movie Orgy (1968)

Strange and dim exploitation

This movie has a professional cast and good production values but it so unclear as to what it wants to be about that its all for nothing. It does portray college students pretty much as they really are: ready to label other people as creeps, not seeing what creeps they are themselves. However, Steve Allen really does seem creepy as the professor. That scene, where he accidentally shows the porno film cut into the home movies of wholesome student fun! It really and truly is embarassing to watch, just as if you were really there. I've never seen a scene like that it in any other movie. The only thing that comes anywhere near close is the gay bar scene in "Advise and Consent" Any showcase for Mamie Van Doren is a good thing. I would say more but I couldn't finish watching it.