Girls Beware (1961)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
This here is one of the more popular Sid Davis educational shorts as it tries to warn teenage girls about the evils that men will do to them. As you'd expect, several examples are given including guys picking up girls in theaters and driving to a lover's lane afterwards, there's the warning dealing with that older guy who likes to hang out at the malt shop to meet younger girls and then there's the terror of girls going riding with men they don't know. GIRLS BEWARE is actually a fairly well-made picture that does a nice job at getting its point across without becoming too preachy. I'm sure a lot of things could be said about Davis but he was certainly the best filmmaker when it came time to make these types of movies and I think on a technical level this thing is fairly good even though no one should be expecting the work of Orson Welles. The stories are all entertaining enough to help keep the short running time moving at a nice pace.