Problem Girls (1953)
Directed by E.A. Dupont / Ewald André Dupont
Genres - Drama, Culture & Society |
Sub-Genres - Detective Film |
Release Date - Apr 7, 1953 (USA - Unknown), Apr 7, 1953 (USA) |
Run Time - 70 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Legendary German director E. A. DuPont didn't have much luck lining up worthwhile projects in Hollywood. DuPont's 1953 potboiler Problem Girls is set in a seedy private school for emotionally disturbed young women. The school's operator (Helen Walker), working in concert with the athletic instructor (James Seay), schemes to pass off a drug-addicted girl (Susan Morrow) as the heiress to an oil fortune. Luckily, school psychologist John Page (Ross Elliot) gets wind of the scheme; unluckily, this puts Page next in line on the villains' ever-mounting "hit list." Essentially an excuse to parade a group of buxom young starlets across the screen, Problem Girls was a far cry from such earlier DuPont films as Variety and Atlantic.
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aristocracy, con/scam, doctor/nurse, drugs, employment, examination [test], girl, heir, impersonation, inheritance, oil, role-switching, school, teacher, problems