5/10
Jitterbuggin' and street fightin'.
29 May 2015
Warning: Spoilers
A teen exploitation flick from Columbia Pictures. Not regrettably bad, but not exactly easy to be remembered. This juvenile delinquent tale takes place on a dance floor, waterfront and the docks. Teen dream Della(Laurie Carroll)and her little brother Poochie(Barry Froner)are roughed up by a street gang "the Stompers". Jimmy(James Darren)the leader of the rival gang called "the Diggers" comes to the rescue. Jimmy takes up Della's invitation to a dance. While they are jitterbugging to tunes like "Take The Last Train Out Of Town" by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, the Stompers show up with a rumble on their mind.

Police sirens begin to wail and teenagers are splitting in all directions. Jimmy runs into a racketeer named Joe Brindo(Michael Granger), who offers him the chance to be taught all the ins and outs of the rackets. Later Jimmy will be called to testify against his mentor about corruption on the docks. The waterfront will no longer be big enough for the two of them. Jimmy becomes a marked man for a cement suit.

Helping to round out the cast: David Bond, Robert Blake, Jerry Janger, Edgar Barrier and Stephen H. Sears.
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