Back to school! And that means one thing here in Black & White World: switchblades and JDs.
Dig this craaaazy caper music, daddy-o
Uh oh:
We got a guy with a vision on our hands here.
So we have some delinquents. As with most JDs, you want to push their faces in.
America hated kids like these. And America was correct to do so:
Here's our big shot:
He's an intellectual, too. He's named Marvin. He's the brains behind a milllllion-dollar caper. Here's the bad girl-but-really-not-bad-but yeah, okay, bad girl:
Virginia Aldridge. She was in "Wolf in the Fold," the Star Trek ep that always came right before "The Trouble with Tribbles." What a dynamic actress:
Let's meet the High School Big Shot's dad:
Hey it's that guy! Or one of those guys. Malcolm Atterbury. He wasn't in Star Trek, but that's okay; we usually get only one per entry.
Anyway, Marv's a smart guy, but a loser. His dad is a drunk who literally goes to sleep with a bottle:
Our hero can't stand up to the tough guys in school. The gal he crushes on doesn't want to marry him, because A) they're in high school, and B) he's Marv. Nice guy and all but she's not going to settle for 75 bucks a week. Why, even the sign on his job is phony.
Even when he's having a bad montage, he's just walking in place:
Well, we need some comic relief. And here he is:
You can tell by the music he's funny. Recognize him?
Stanley Adams! Cyrano Jones, seller of tribbles! That's a double Trek dose. But wait! There's more! Music by Gerald Fried, who did lots of Star Trek - composer of the famous battle theme, among other things. You know. Dah-dah da da da, da-da dah dah.
Anyway, there's a robbery, and it all goes bad, but the movie's only an hour and a minute long so it's just like watching a mediocre TV show. One thing about a shot at a nightspot:
Yeah, "Hopperesque" doesn't come to mind. But this:
