Teenage Mother (1967)

Director:

Jerry Gross

Writers:

Nicholas Demetroules (story)
Jerry Gross

Release Date:

January 1967 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Teenage Mother - Means 9 Months of Trouble!

Plot:

A new health teacher in a high school is nearly raped by drug-dealing students and is blamed when a student turns up pregnant. |

Plot Keywords:

Teacher | Childbirth | Teen Angst | Teenager | Exploitation

Cast

Arlene Farber	...	Arlene Taylor (as Arlene Sue Farber)
Frederick Riccio	...	Duke Markell
Julie Ange	...	Erika Petersen
Howard Le May	...	Tony Michaels
George Peters	...	Mr. Taylor
Matt Reynolds
Lynne Lipton
Fred Willard	...	Coach
David Vancelette
George Stauch
Mildred Weitz
Birger Kaurin
Butler Sheldon Jr.
Burton Wolsky
Nan Somers
Helene Farber	...	Duke's girl
Arnold Hittleman
Ron Segal
Steven Decker
Gerald Mariner
Earl Hindman		(as Earle Hindman)
Alan Michaels
Hannah Wolff
George Harris III
David Bruno
The Young Set	...	Themselves
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jerry Gross	...	Truck driver (uncredited)
Alex Mann	...	High school student (uncredited)

Directed by
Jerry Gross

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Nicholas Demetroules		story
Jerry Gross

Produced by
Nicholas Demetroules	....	co-producer
Jerry Gross	....	producer

Original Music by
Steve Karmen
The Young Set		(uncredited)

Cinematography by
Richard E. Brooks		(as Richard Brooks)
George Zimmermann

Film Editing by
Israel Ortiz

Production Management
Joe Masefield	....	production manager
Joshua White	....	assistant unit manager (as Josh White)
Jess Wolff	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Peter Nevard	....	assistant director

Sound Department
John Sadler	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Bob Eggleston	....	electrician (as Robert Eggleston)
Norman Kamerling	....	camera operator
Michael Konkos	....	camera operator (as Michael Konkus)
Edward Thalrose	....	lighting technician

Other crew
April Pollack	....	continuity

Production Companies

• Arrow Films
• Jerry Gross Productions

Distributors

• Cinemation Industries (1967) (USA) (theatrical)
• Code Red DVD (2009) (USA) (DVD)
• Secret Key Motion Pictures (2009) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Action House  thanks
• American Motors (AMC)  thanks
• Betsey Johnson  Miss Farber's wardrobe by
• Lou Rothstein Associates  editorial services
• New York National Speedway  thanks
• Paraphernalia  Miss Farber's wardrobe by

Also Known As:

Runtime:

78 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

East Rockaway, Long Island, New York, USA

Company:

Arrow Films

Trivia:

The poster and coming attraction trailer intentionally mislead by depicting the heroine as being in late-term pregnancy, when in fact in the film proper she merely lies about being pregnant.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Baadasssss! (2003)

Soundtrack:

I Want You

Possibly the Worst and yet somehow one of the Funniest movies ever

I'm torn between rating this a 1 and a 10. The thing is, this movie is the finest example of something being so bad that it's utterly fantastic. Total 180...while still remaining terrible.

It was made in the mid-60s and looks like it. The dialog is horrible drivel that was clearly imagined by adults at the time who feared for their lives that their children might be holding hands or even more. This is an hilarious contrast with the cast that appears to be made up entirely of B Movie greatest hits type. The delivery of each line is inherently funny in how inhuman and out of place it all seems. Combine this with the message of "wholesome" conservative views--and I'm pretty socially conservative, but this is beyond ridiculous--that seems to tie in with the implication that attempted date rape is just a practical joke, chauvinism is endearing...I do'nt know what else to say. The plot is hilariously bad, the "romantic scenes" seemed so surreal that if a unicorn walked by it would've made more sense and generation gap is displayed as if the two parties are that of the Cold War. There's actually a scene where a father seems to just be giving up on his daughter, not because she's a slut or because she's going out go-go dancing to the worst surf music ever made, but because she's wearing boots of all things. I cannot stress enough how funny this film is due to the delivery of every poorly written line. Keanu Reeves is crying.

The seeming non sequitor of the sex ed teacher's discussion of her special video is intentionally shown in a way that makes it linger in your mind. You don't know how or when it's gonna come back to haunt you until the point of no return. You can't look back.

I saw this about 2 years ago, so I've forgotten about how awesomely bad it is for the most part, but i remember talking about it for weeks afterward. It's disturbingly comical and comically disturbing, though it was meant to be a serious film. If you think you can stomach how bad it is, the pay off will be worth it as you will undoubtedly site it as one of the funniest movies ever, and one of the worst. It's a two-fer.