Princess Samantha Kennedy Mentions The Early Juvenile Delinquent Films

During the 1950s and 1960s a series of delinquent movies were produced, one the 1957 film called Reform School Girls, written and directed by Edward Bernds.  The film is about a girl named Donna Price who was sent to reform school after the stolen car she is riding in is crashed.  She is considered a juvenile delinquent and sent to the state school for girls.  She refuses to identify the man driving the car.  At the reform school she attends a class taught by David the psychologist, but, she does not reveal her secret to David, he believes that she is good and that she can straighten out her life with his help.  Eventually Donna is believed to be an informer to the police and she is attacked by Roxy and Donna cuts Roxy with a pair of scissors.  The school determines that Donna is a high risk student and she is transferred to the state prison.  School authorities also question David's judgement and his relationship with Donna and his ability to help students.  Vince, the man Donna is concealing as the driver of the stolen car, he is convinced that Donna will inform the police, he attempts to break in and kill her, but, he is apprehended.  The school and the police investigate the incident and as a result of the investigation David is vindicated, and Donna is exonerated and released.  This was Sally Kellerman's acting debut in Reform School Girls.  Kellerman would also be in the Oliver Stone film J.F.K.  During the 1950s and 1960s many AIP films were focused on juvenile delinquency.  Reform School Girls can be watched on-line at AMCtv.com

In 1974 on NBC television, shown another reform school movie called Born Innocent starring Linda Blair, about a runaway teenager who ends up in reform school, an institution of disturbed teenaged girls.  Chris (Linda Blair) comes from an abusive home where her father beats her and her mother does not care, so she runs away and ends up at this reform school for disturbed girls.  She is abused and raped by her fellow peers.  It was the highest rated movie on television in the United States in 1974, but, thereafter pulled from television and never seen again.  There were many outcries about the violence in the movie.  But, it depicts the cruelty of the girls on Chris in this film.