In the same year that after she became Mrs. Patrick Dennis in the big hit "Auntie Mame", actress Pippa Scott start as a first-year high school teacher in this teenage drama of uncontrolled angst. She's paired with Robert Harland, a high school seniorbollocks 5 years older and takes her out on a date during her first night in town. By the time she discovers that he is one of her English class students, it is too late. He is obsessively in love with her, getting more dangerous with each rejection that she must give him. But after other students see them out in public together, the rumor mill begins to spread and the only way that she can continue to work is to let him down bluntly, a decision that he won't accept easily. Scott gives a sincere performance and what saves this from getting a lower rating is the fact that her character is extremely likable.
With Majel Barrett as her old college friend who also takes a job at the same school and Ty Hardin as a nearly 30 year old trouble making senior, this isn't quite laughably bad, simply because it isn't overly passionate or for that matter fun to laugh at. It is just bland and not really exciting. There is never any real tension, and if this was trying to emulate the success of "Rebel Without a Cause" from a few years before, it failed miserably. Ellen Corby add some unintentional humor as a truly crabby landlady who is often heard screaming from off screen for Scott and Barrett to be quiet. Tthis is actually so tame that it could have been done for TV rather than be made for a possible drive-in movie that teenagers whom this was supposed to be about probably just got bored with.
With Majel Barrett as her old college friend who also takes a job at the same school and Ty Hardin as a nearly 30 year old trouble making senior, this isn't quite laughably bad, simply because it isn't overly passionate or for that matter fun to laugh at. It is just bland and not really exciting. There is never any real tension, and if this was trying to emulate the success of "Rebel Without a Cause" from a few years before, it failed miserably. Ellen Corby add some unintentional humor as a truly crabby landlady who is often heard screaming from off screen for Scott and Barrett to be quiet. Tthis is actually so tame that it could have been done for TV rather than be made for a possible drive-in movie that teenagers whom this was supposed to be about probably just got bored with.