Wayward girls were everywhere in the 1950's and beyond, clamoring for their own identity and desperate to rebel against authority, whether it be their own parents or the staff of the detention center they are forced to attend in this sordid B movie. New arrival Melinda Plowman has given birth to a baby which the other girls immediately take to (particularly title character Susan Oliver), eventually taking charge and taking care of the child in secret. So the audience is supposed to believe that the staff has no idea that for days, these young ladies are feeding and changing the child, nurturing its every need, that is until the well meaning new arrival staff member Sally Brophy discovers the child, turning it over to administrator Jean Innes.
Not even funny enough to be considered amusing trash, this teen angst drama just lays there like a baby needing to be changed, and there's really no point to the whole messy situation because there is never any real moral and certainly no genuine point to the goings on. None of the None of the characters are really fleshed out, and most of the major characters are just complete cliches with the plot predictable and majorly dull. The acting is often melodramatic and unbelievable, and the direction slow with a cheapened technical level of filmmaking where the photographer, director and editors seem desperate to get their work done so they can move on. Not surprised by the plot twist at the end either as this sort of thing was commonplace in movies like this.
Not even funny enough to be considered amusing trash, this teen angst drama just lays there like a baby needing to be changed, and there's really no point to the whole messy situation because there is never any real moral and certainly no genuine point to the goings on. None of the None of the characters are really fleshed out, and most of the major characters are just complete cliches with the plot predictable and majorly dull. The acting is often melodramatic and unbelievable, and the direction slow with a cheapened technical level of filmmaking where the photographer, director and editors seem desperate to get their work done so they can move on. Not surprised by the plot twist at the end either as this sort of thing was commonplace in movies like this.