Girl Gang

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John M Horrible - total trash. Zero redeeming qualities 😣 Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/04/24 Full Review Audience Member Girl Gang is really about Joe (Timothy Farrell), who leads the titular group of young ladies. He hooks them on drugs, then gets willing participants in the crimes of robbery and prostitution. Farrell would play pretty much the same role, under the same name, in 1957's Gun Girls. His main girl June is played by Joanne Arnold, who was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for May 1954. This is the kind of movie I find myself loving when I'm not watching Italian splatter or Mexican lucha movies: too old to be teenagers getting in trouble and dragging down everyone else with them. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie had the wrong name in my opinion! Story didn't reflect a Girl Gang for me. Pretty entertaining, lots of drug use, and not bad for what they had to work with. Story had some holes in it but I still enjoyed the movie Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty basic 50s exploitation fare, most entertainment value coming from how ineptly it portrays and exaggerates drug and vice culture. Reasonably watchable, but not among the best. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member RACKET GIRLS director Robert C. Dertano made a vintage exploitation movie about crime and narcotics when he helmed GIRL GANG. Mind you, this abysmally acted, 63-minute, black & white movie is strictly your standard dope-fiend film from fade-in to fade-out. Nevertheless, the casual use of marijuana and the extremely explicit depictions about both cooking heroin and injecting it respectively for men and women must have been controversial for its day. Producer George Weiss could not have received any dispensation from the Motion Picture Association of America because the still intact Production Code prohibited Hollywood from illustrating how to commit a crime, and using illegal narcotics very much constituted a crime in the 1950s. Otto Preminger did not dare go as far out on the censorship limb as GIRL GANG when he produced his own controversial Frank Sinatra epic âThe Man with the Golden Armâ? about heroin abuse in 1955 and altogether ignored the Production Code Seal of Approval. Otherwise, GIRL GANG casts exploitation regular Timothy Farrell of THE VIOLENT YEARS and GLEN OR GLENDA as a two-bit crime boss named Joe who hooks teens on marijuana and/or heroin and dispatches them to crime crimes. They fence him the goods and use the money that Joe gives them for either pot or smack. GIRL GANG does not entirely concern itself with distaff criminals. A quartet of devious dames hijacks a car from an unsuspecting guy on a lonely highway and leaves him sprawled unconscious on the pavement. He made the mistake of picking up two pretty hitchhikers. Before he knows it, two more gals in another car cut him off and brandish revolvers. Joe gives the gals a measly $200 and complains that he will have to repaint the convertible and change the serial numbers on the engine. The bulk of the action follows the crime boss and his efforts to take advantage of women while they perform his dirty deeds. Eventually, the police catch up with him after the girl gang is shot-up by authorities and traced back to his hideout in an apartment complex. The subject matter contains greater historical relevance than the cinematic technique. There is a slackly staged gas station robbery toward the end of the action. Just about everything is run-of-the-mill, right down to the cinematography of William Thompson who lensed most of the films that Ed Wood, Jr., produced. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member A sleazy gangster has a gang of young girls commit robberies and prostitution for him by getting them hooked on drugs. Not really a girl gang, more like a gaggle of junkie hos. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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