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College Confidential (film)
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Wikipedia article
'College Confidential' is a 1960 American B-movie drama directed by Albert Zugsmith[https://mubi.com/films/college-confidential MUBI] and starring Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows and Mamie Van Doren.[https://www.nytimes.com/1960/08/22/archives/screen-campus-claptrapsteve-allen-and-wife-in-college-confidential.html Screen: Campus Claptrap:Steve Allen and Wife in 'College Confidential' - The New York Times][https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69b78f18 BFI]
Plot
Sociology professor Steve McInter conducts a survey at Collins College about the lifestyles and sexual urges of the younger generation.[https://www.allmovie.com/movie/college-confidential-v87570 AllMovie] One of his students, Sally Blake, excels with the survey and may be having an affair with the professor. Reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that Steve is corrupting the youth and she discovers the dark past that he had fled.
Cast
*Steve Allen as Steve McInter
*Jayne Meadows as Betty Ducayne
*Mamie Van Doren as Sally Blake
*Rocky Marciano as Deputy Sheriff
*Mickey Shaughnessy as Sam Grover
*Cathy Crosby as Fay Grover
*Herbert Marshall as Professor Henry Addison
*Conway Twitty as Marvin
*Randy Sparks as Phil
*Pamela Mason as Edna Blake
*Elisha Cook, Jr. as Ted Blake
*Theona Bryant as Lois Addison
Production
The film was an unofficial follow-up to 'High School Confidential' from two years prior, although made for a different studio. Director Joe Dante, who spoofed said follow-up on the 1979 Ramones vehicle 'Rock 'n' Roll High School',[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Punk_Slash_Musicals/1gXsDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=college+confidential+joe+dante&pg=PA93&printsec=frontcover Punk Slash! Musicals - Google Books (pg.93)] asked Allen about making 'College Confidential' at one point and the latter said that it was going to be progressive. It has never been available on any home media.[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/71212/college-confidential#articles-reviews?articleId=258812 Turner Classic Movies][http://trailersfromhell.com/college-confidential/ Trailers from Hell]
References
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