Teenage Devil Dolls (1952)
Starring: -Barbara Marks, Robert A Sherry, Robert Norman
Director: -Lawrence Price Jr.
Synopsis: One toke and you're a gonner! tale of woe as mild mannered teen goes astray.
Reviewed by: Bazid Khan

The film is narrated all the way, enough to drive any teenage doll to drugs in itself!. There are no dialogues, just a jangling keyboard score and this typically patronizing Uncle Jim kind of voice doing the narration - a story of sordid destruction and doom. The narrator is supposedly the policeman who was in charge of tracking down the filthy drug dealers. He presents Cassandra's tale of woe as a case study for others to learn from.

The object of the film like the infamous Reefer Madness before it is to warn innocent and impressionable teenagers about the horrors of drug addiction, and just what a deadly sociopolitical threat it is!

The film has quite the opposite effect it is meant to and is annoying enough to drive most viewers to substance abuse. The portrayal of drug addicts ought to have been seriously handled yet here it is a bagful of laughs.....viewers will be chuckling for all the wrong reasons.!

Yet there is the wonderful cheesy charm to proceedings precisely because of the sheer ineptitude of the exercise and how tragically it backfires. It is a vintage classic of its kind and one of the great JD (Juvenile Delinquent!) movies we are proud to have in our collection. This was supposed to be educational, instead its a laugh riot all the way. Not to be missed by purveyors of trash and z grade movies.