‘Delinquent Daughters’ (1944)  - Albert Herman.

Director, Albert Herman's enjoyably lurid, poverty row riot of parental paranoia, ‘Delinquent Daughters’ (1944) remains an amusingly angst-laden, hysterically finger-wagging diatribe against a grimly imagined terminal tidal wave of tawdry teenage turpitude as ungovernable lusts corrupts their innocent loins into inchoate cauldrons of depthless iniquity! Recoil in reactionary horror as gleefully transgressing, soda-poppingly perky Bobby Soxers defy all respectable modes of law and conventional propriety in their desperate need to satiate increasingly insatiable pre-beatnik kicks! Witness the inexorable decline of our nation's wayward youth descending rapidly from bouts of youthful hi jinks into the most diabolically depraved dissipation imaginable! Reel from the terrible ‘two-reel’ reality of our nation’s future assayed into a perfidious purgatory of their very own making! I think I prefer the quaint, monochromatic propaganda of yesteryear than the more insidious, multiplatform variety of today.

 

 

'John Waters will get a kick out of us defying law and convention!'