***SPOILERS*** Movie about America's youth being corrupted by drug pushers who use drug addicted high school students to push their marijuana and heroin on their fellow students. Of course he local police and FBI need evidence that these horrendous crimes are going on in the high schools of our nation and use undercover agents to get the goods, and drugs, to put these fiendish drug dealers away for good. The now new kid in high school Tony Baker, Russ Tamblyn, gets into the act by him trying to take over the drug operation in Santa Bella High.***SPOILERS*** You see right away that the cocky and almost 30 year old Tony is really a teenage looking undercover agent Mike Wilson who works for the FBI who knowledge of the now ,1950's, hip and drug slang has him easily infiltrate the school's student drug operation headed by hipster student J.L Coleridge, John Drew Barrymore. It's J.L's pot addicted girlfriend Joan Staples, Diane Jergens, whom Tony makes a play for in him being able to get close to the action as well as J.L.
It's obvious as soon as you see him that Tony is not exactly whom he wants us to think that he is. A spoiled brat who wants us to think that he's in charge of things in and out of the classroom. It's Tony's history teacher Miss. Williams, Jan Sterling, who tries to straighten him out who almost ends up getting killed in the end by the drug dealers hat Tony is working, undercover that is, with. There's also Tony's sexy undercover aunt, in who's house he shares with, Gwen Delaine, Mamie Van Doren. You never can figure out just what's Miss. Van Doren is doing in the movie except providing eye candy to us guys watching her Va Va Voom figure and vital statistics, 37-24-35, that she's more then willing to show off in the ultra tights clothes that she wears.
It's after Tony gets to meet the real Mr.Big in the high school drug trade piano playing night cub owner Mr. A, Jackie Coogan, that he slips up in letting the cat out of the bag by Joan finding out, and telling J.L while she's stoned out of her skull, that she overheard a conversation between Tony and Mr.A that Tony secretly recorded that can send Mr.A away for life!
***SPOILERS*** It's now up to Tony's friends in the police FBI and student body headed by Steve Bently,Michael Landon, to come to his rescue before Mr. A, machete in hand, and his goon squad headed by Quinn, Charlie Chaplin Jr, finish him off! The free for all ending in Mr.A's night club has the lid blown off in Mr. A's drug dealing operation in Santa Bella High that he's been running. It's then that the parents of the students going to Santa Bella High realize just how naive they were in them thinking that it, drug dealing, can't happen here in suburban middle America. Which in fact has been going on for the last four or five years right under their noses!
P.S Look for Rock & Roll singer and piano player Jerry Lee Lewis banging away at his keyboard with his locks of blond hair swirling almost off his head playing the movies theme song,on the back of a flatbed truck, "Boppin at the High School Hop".
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