OVERLOOKED FILM: GIRL GANG (1954)

 As one commenter remarked, "This makes Ed Wood look like Orson Welles."

Gang leader Joe (Timothy Farrell, Glen or Glenda, Paris After Midnight, Test Tube Babies} has assembled a group of young people -- mostly girls women, er, thirty-year-old teenagers, actually -- to commit various crimes ranging from robbery to grand theft auto to prostitution for him.  How does he do it? Simple.  He gets them hooked on drugs; first marijuana, then heroin.  These kids will do anything for their fix.  Joe insists that they use no violence while committing their crimes, but are drug-aadles kids capable of listening to him?

This is a bottom of the barrel exploitation flick.  One bright spot, if it could be called that, is the presence of Jo Ann Arnold -- Playboy's Playmate of the Month, June 1954 -- as June; her films include Invasion of the Star Creatures, Daddy-o, and The Diary of a High School Bride.  Other actresses include Mary Lou O'Connor (her only IMDb credit), Mildred Kalke (her only IMDb credit), Thelma Montgomery (her only IMDb credit), Marie Metier (her only IMDb credit), Irene Gilmore (her only IMDb credit), and Peggy Winters (her only IMDb credit).  Does anyone else notice a trend here?

File this one under So Bad It's Gotta Be Entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qteAJcHcE0k