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    Cool and The Crazy, The (1958)

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    Just out of reform school, Bennie Saul (Scott Marlowe) starts turning on his classmates at high school. Eddie the Pusher gives Bennie the weed, and when they all “come back for more” they find it costs money.

    The hard-hitting truth continues as a kid is killed attempting to hold up a gas station for reefer money, with Bennie finally killing Eddie for more dope only to get his just desserts in a flaming car crash.

    The Cool and the Crazy was filmed on location in Kansas City, where actors Richard Bakalyan and Dick Jones were actually busted when their ducktail haircuts and delinquent appearance attracted the attention of the local police.

    The Hollywood Reporter said at the time: “A few weeks ago a Brooklyn school principal committed suicide because he could not suppress the rape and hoodlumism in his institution. The Cool and the Crazy is a badly written, sloppily edited, poorly directed, low budget film that may well inspire more such tragedies.”

    It’s a classic. Don’t miss it.

    Bennie Saul
    Scott Marlowe
    Jackie Barzan
    Richard Bakalyan
    Amy
    Gigi Perreau
    Stu Summerville
    Dick Jones
    Eddie the Pusher
    Marvyn J. Rosen
    Det. Lt. Sloan
    Shelby Storck
    Miss Ryan
    Caroline von Mayrhauser
    Marty
    Ken Plumb
    Charles ‘Cookie’ Tyler
    Robert Hadden
    Desk Sgt. Harry
    Joe Adelman
    Det. Sgt. Myers
    James Newman
    Amy’s mother
    Jackie Storck
    Amy’s father
    Leonard Belove

    Director
    William Witney

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