Four bored middle class youngsters get their hands on a pistol and begin a reign of terror, shooting shop owners, and becoming wanted men, even though their parents think they're absolutely normal teenagers in this episode of MGM's long running CRIME DOES NOT PAY series.
It's all the fault of the parents, of course, who go out at night to bridge parties, leaving their sons to dine on a can of corned beef hash. Behold the results of eating corned beef hash for dinner, without an egg!
It's an early example of the sort of teenage problem movies that would become popular in the post-war years. At this time, people were only just beginning to think of adolescence as a stage of life; earlier, one was a child, and then one was an adult. Now society was extending childhood, and this caused a strain on the young men and women who didn't like it.
It's all the fault of the parents, of course, who go out at night to bridge parties, leaving their sons to dine on a can of corned beef hash. Behold the results of eating corned beef hash for dinner, without an egg!
It's an early example of the sort of teenage problem movies that would become popular in the post-war years. At this time, people were only just beginning to think of adolescence as a stage of life; earlier, one was a child, and then one was an adult. Now society was extending childhood, and this caused a strain on the young men and women who didn't like it.