HOOKED/FLAMING TEENAGE

Details

• Release Year: 1957
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music
• Plot: Hooked:; When sourpuss copy Lieutenant Lacey Investigates the disappearance of 17-year-old Ray Bowman, he uncovers a small town festering with high-school hipsters eager to get hooked! Sure enough, not only does Bowman turn out to be 'a confirmed heroin addict' but a dead one as well – killed by 'a hot shot' when he tries to buy a fix on credit. Lacey quickly sends two undercover cops into the field – including director Alexander Wells, posing as a 'joypopper' - who zero in on a 21-year-old pusher and his thrill-seeking underage girlfriend who want to introduce a super-square straight-a student to their dope-crazed friends... also released as Narcotics Squad and Curfew Breakers, Hooked is a gleefully lurid cross between a JD flick, Reefer Madness and Dragnet from the bebop bleakness of the 1950s!; ; The Flaming Teen-Age:; From director Irvin S. Yeaworth, the man who made The Blob, 4D Man and Way Out, comes the 'True-Life Story' of Fred Garland, a liquor-lovin' talent agent, swindler and 'complete bum' who gets hooked on heroin and ends up becoming... a preacher! Shot in 1952 as Twice Convicted, the film eventually mutated into The Flaming Teen-Age when additional non-Yeaworth footage was added of teenage alcoholics making damn fools of themselves!
• Cast: Paul Kelly, Cathy Downs, Regis Toomey, Sheila Urban, Byron Foulger, Alexander J. Wells, Jack Edwards, Larry Getz, Roy Irwin, Cullen Wheelas, Henry Younge Jr., Marilyn Madison, Michael Henry
• Director: Alexander J. Wells
• Runtime: 2:20
• Company: Chiller Theatre, Something Weird Video
• Media Format: Movie