OK, full disclaimer. I never watched this in the theaters, I wasn't born yet. I had never heard of this until 2022. I watched it being made fun of at the Rifftrax YouTube channel who did it with the girls providing the jokes this time (as they did before on the other teen ager ones they did). 7 of 10 for a riff viewing, Mary Jo and Bridgette do the honors. ..... Now onto my thoughts. Its a Monogram picture, point 1. The teenagers look like short adult actors (they are), point 2. This is a type of ripoff of The Bowery Boys, point 3 (except I think the same studio was ripping itself off with these more wholesome teens). Final point, I'm pretty sure they were trying to rip off/combine the Mickey Rooney Judy Garland films with the Bowery Boys. 4 out of 10, there is a funny line here at the punch bowl. Otherwise 7 out of 10 when it gets riffed on because it deserves all of it.
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Where the deer and the teenagers play.
mark.waltz12 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Graduation day means that life begins for these twenty something year old teenagers (Freddie Stewart, June Preisser, Warren Mills, Noel Neill), and one turning thirty (Frankie Darro). So what do they do the summer before they start college? Why out to the country to a ranch with spinster teacher Belle Mitchell and professor Milton Kibbee, of course! There they encounter a group of criminals out to grab the ranch for nefarious purposes, and being teenagers, they're very resourceful!
A silly fourth entry into the series of series of Monogram comedy musicals that haunted the double bills along with the Bowery Boys movies, and not much different outside of the lack of malapropisms. This series that began the same year didn't last nearly as long, but featured a talented group of young musicians.
There's a fun version of "Home on the Range" and some big band instrumentals, the lovelorn hatchet faced Mitchell and the eternal bachelor Kibbee, brother of more popular character actor Guy Kibbee, and father of soap opera grand dame Lois Kibbee ("Caddyshack"). I just love the shirts that Spade Cooley and his band wears, the most creative element of this little programmer.
A silly fourth entry into the series of series of Monogram comedy musicals that haunted the double bills along with the Bowery Boys movies, and not much different outside of the lack of malapropisms. This series that began the same year didn't last nearly as long, but featured a talented group of young musicians.
There's a fun version of "Home on the Range" and some big band instrumentals, the lovelorn hatchet faced Mitchell and the eternal bachelor Kibbee, brother of more popular character actor Guy Kibbee, and father of soap opera grand dame Lois Kibbee ("Caddyshack"). I just love the shirts that Spade Cooley and his band wears, the most creative element of this little programmer.
Outlaw incognito as a high school kid?
bkoganbing18 April 2019
It's graduation now for Monogram's teenagers and their English teacher Belle
Mitchell has gone and invited her favorites to a summer vacation at the dude
ranch she's inherited. Her favorite faculty member Milton Kibbee is also along
for chaperoning.
The first day there they're all witness to an old wild west style holdup. And it's noticed that Freddie Stewart bears a passing resemblance to a bandit who disappeared in the desert.
To the guy who made him disappear this is frightening stuff. Imagine a bandit hiding out as a high school kid. But given the ages of these teens who look their age and not like teens. why not?
That's the ludicrous basis for the really stupid story that follows. Freddie Stewart sings, but believe me that ain't enough.
The first day there they're all witness to an old wild west style holdup. And it's noticed that Freddie Stewart bears a passing resemblance to a bandit who disappeared in the desert.
To the guy who made him disappear this is frightening stuff. Imagine a bandit hiding out as a high school kid. But given the ages of these teens who look their age and not like teens. why not?
That's the ludicrous basis for the really stupid story that follows. Freddie Stewart sings, but believe me that ain't enough.
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