Blu-ray Review – Teenage Gang Debs

1966’s “Teenage Gang Debs” takes viewers back to a day and age when juvenile delinquent movies were plentiful. The titles gave young audiences a chance to experience a more dangerous, exciting life of crime and punishment. Older viewers were offered time to condemn the younger generation, watching their fears of unruliness and violence played out on the big screen. What’s a little different about “Teenage Gang Debs” is the screenplay by Hy Cahl, which is influenced by William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” losing the language but keeping the general thrust of power plays and danger to help beef up a thin study of female ambition during the days of New York City lawlessness. Director Sande N. Johnsen really doesn’t have much of a movie here, loading it up with as much padding as possible, but when there’s actual focus on the plot and room for the actors to do their thing, the offering has its exploitational charms and appropriate ugly business. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com