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College Confidential is a 1960 American B-movie drama directed by Albert Zugsmith[1] and starring Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows and Mamie Van Doren.[2][3]

Plot

Sociology professor Steve McInter conducts a survey at Collins College about the lifestyles and sexual urges of the younger generation.[4] The father of one of his students, Sally Blake, confronts McInter about the survey and found that he was having an affair with a female student. Reporter Betty Duquesne receives an anonymous tip that McInter is corrupting the college students. McInter has a party at his house where a student film that had been spliced with a supposedly "pornographic" movie was shown. The professor is arrested and a trial was held where he is charged with corrupting the morals of minors, which attracted the attention of the media. After the trial, McInter attacked the "dirty-mindedness" of the town.[5]

Cast

Production

The film was an unofficial follow-up to High School Confidential from two years prior, although made for a different studio. Director Joe Dante, who spoofed said follow-up on the 1979 Ramones vehicle Rock 'n' Roll High School,[6] asked Allen about making College Confidential at one point and the latter said that it was going to be progressive. It has never been available on any home media.[7][8]

Randy Sparks performed two songs on the film: "College Confidential" and "Playmates", while Conway Twitty performed "College Confidential Ball".[5]

Reception

Howard Thompson of The New York Times thought the picture "best-described as punk", and wrote that "Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows are such personable, alert performers that it is truly painful to find them co-starring in a piece of movie claptrap like College Confidential." The students in the film were described as seemingly "even more adolescent, apparently never touch a book, continually grasp each other instead, or slither around mouthing a kind of steamy, beatnik jargon.".[2] The New York Herald Tribune said of the acting: "Earl Wilson and other members of the fourth estate show up in court to demonstrate their shortcomings as actors..."[9]

References

  1. ^ MUBI
  2. ^ a b Thompson, Howard (August 22, 1960). "Screen: Campus Claptrap: Steve Allen and Wife in 'College Confidential'". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "College Confidential (1960)". BFI. Archived from the original on May 4, 2019.
  4. ^ AllMovie
  5. ^ a b Lowe, Barry (2016). Atomic Blonde: The Films of Mamie Van Doren. McFarland. pp. 157–160. ISBN 9780786482733.
  6. ^ Laderman, David (2010). Punk Slash! Musicals. University of Texas Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780292721708 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "College Confidential (1960)". Turner Classic Movies.
  8. ^ "College Confidential". Trailers from Hell.
  9. ^ Lowe, Barry (2016). Atomic Blonde: The Films of Mamie Van Doren. McFarland. p. 160. ISBN 9780786482733.

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