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Untamed Youth (1957)

Directed by Howard W. Koch

Overview

Sisters Jane and Penny are arrested for hitchhiking on their way to Los Angeles when they stop for a quick skinny dip in a rural town. Local agricultural magnate Tropp is a sponsor for a local prison work program and the women get put in the fields to work off their sentence. Tropp is dating the widowed judge in order to ensure a stable supply of cheap labor in order to undercut his competition. The prisoners suffer ill treatment, but the judge’s son has signed on as a hired hand and begins to figure out the scam as he begins falling in love with Jane, and Penny dreams of making it big in showbiz.

Rated NR | Length 80 minutes

Actors

Robert Foulk | John Russell | Lurene Tuttle | Eddie Cochran | Lori Nelson | Wally Brown | Mamie Van Doren | Jered Barclay | Jeanne Carmen | Glenn Dixon | Keith Richards | Yvonne Fedderson | Don Burnett | Wayne Taylor | Valerie Reynolds | Lucita