***SPOILERS*** More of a public service message that a movie about a bunch of crazy mixed kids who's parents are either serving in the US military, Fighting Hitler Tojo & Mussolini,or working double shifts at the war munition or defense plant who don't any time for them. One of these kids 15 year old straight A student Frankie Hauser has struck up a serious relationship with his new neighbors', The Taylors, cute and sweet daughter Sarah. It's in Frankie's prejudice parents feeling that the Taylors are outsiders and really not one of theirs, the local townspeople, they force Frankie to brake off his relationship with Sarah! That leads Frankie to not only being forced into becoming a truant from school but also a car thief as well stealing parts from parked cars at the plant for his boss chop shop owner Larry Duncan. That was Frankie crazy way to get money to take Sarah out on dates! Despite the fact that Sarah loved Frankie just for himself and was just as happy to spend time with him walking in the park and smelling the flowers and foliage then being treated to milkshakes banana splits car rides and movies by him.
Both Frankie and Sarah's life and future start to go straight down the tubes with Frankie now a wanted on the loose criminal and Sarah also quitting school,like Frankie did, and becoming a B-girl at the adult and swinging bar restaurant, that serves US servicemen, called "Rocky's Palace".
It's Frankie's step-brother, his sister Mary's husband, Danny Coates who was injured in the war fighting the Nazis who tries to set Frankie as well as Sarah straight but in the end it's the two lovebirds who ends up getting their lives back together. That by them staying away from the hip crowd of out of control teenagers whom they were being greatly influenced by.
Based on a September 11-Ring a Bell-1943 Look Magazine article about how the war has effected Americas youth in not having their parents, who were either serving in the US military or working at the local defense plants, supervise them. These emotionally disturbed hyped up and wayward youths were just as much a victim of the war as their parents who fought in it were. Sadly for reasons known only to itself and its editors Life Magazine totally disowned the movie that its hard hitting article was based on. Which was indeed sad in that it hit the nail right on the head in exposing the root causes of juvenile delinquency in wartime USA yet deliberately refused to take credit for it!
Both Frankie and Sarah's life and future start to go straight down the tubes with Frankie now a wanted on the loose criminal and Sarah also quitting school,like Frankie did, and becoming a B-girl at the adult and swinging bar restaurant, that serves US servicemen, called "Rocky's Palace".
It's Frankie's step-brother, his sister Mary's husband, Danny Coates who was injured in the war fighting the Nazis who tries to set Frankie as well as Sarah straight but in the end it's the two lovebirds who ends up getting their lives back together. That by them staying away from the hip crowd of out of control teenagers whom they were being greatly influenced by.
Based on a September 11-Ring a Bell-1943 Look Magazine article about how the war has effected Americas youth in not having their parents, who were either serving in the US military or working at the local defense plants, supervise them. These emotionally disturbed hyped up and wayward youths were just as much a victim of the war as their parents who fought in it were. Sadly for reasons known only to itself and its editors Life Magazine totally disowned the movie that its hard hitting article was based on. Which was indeed sad in that it hit the nail right on the head in exposing the root causes of juvenile delinquency in wartime USA yet deliberately refused to take credit for it!