[UA] Re: [UA] http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/studentmagic001028.html

[Nick Wedig]

>High School Inquisition. 
>1958, directed by Jack Arnold
>Starring Mamie Van Doren and Glen Ford. With Robert Mitchum
>as Mr. Richter. 
>Music by Screaming Jay Hawkins. 
>	Unusually twisted for a teen exploitation flick, this hinky
>rock & roll hot-rod horror epic pits sympathetic high school
>teachers against a sultry, malevolent coven of high voltage
>hellcats. Sparks fly when the frightened school board sends
>in an assistant dean with a curious specialization. . .
>Evocative, disturbing camera work and deliberate defiance of
>the genre's conceits make this raw, obscure piece of 50s
>marginalia a film not to be missed.

It'd be neat to stage a version of "The Crcuible" set in the 50's, like this, replacing the priests and such with teachers and administrators.  

Mr. Teapot
high voltage hellcat

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