Girl Gang

Wow. I didn't expect much before I began watching, but still 'Girl gang' surprises with how terribly inauthentic it is, from the very start. Only a few individuals in the cast have any additional credits to their name, but at that, no one involved demonstrates convincing acting skills. To be fair, it's not necessarily their fault; the material is desperately thin, and Robert C. Dertano's capacity as director seemed to be little more than pointing a camera and feeding his cast lines.

In both how scenes are written and certainly in their realization, one senses not the slightest tick of bother for how the presentation looks from an outside perspective. Was there more than one take at any point? Dertano's editing leaves much to be desired; did he actually do any meaningful work in this regard, save for cutting from one shot to the next?

In another time, with a more capable creative team, this could have been a feature that meaningfully explored degradation and corruption. Alternatively, why, it could have been given a different angle, and become a subversive feminist delight. Instead, 'Girl gang' is effectively an extension of the 1936 propaganda film 'Reefer madness,' and nothing more. Marijuana is depicted as inherently addictive, and capable of producing a fatal overdose. Marijuana is of course an instant gateway to heroin, prostitution, theft, robbery, and more.

I suppose this could be exciting if one has never seen any other movie or TV show before. It could be shocking if one had such prudish, uptight, ill-informed moral sensibilities that even the merest suggestion of controverting societal norms was terribly offensive and alarming. For anyone else, however, this is emphatically not worth the 62 minutes it takes to watch it. There is no genuineness to be found in 'Girl gang,' and no value, either. Under no circumstances could I possibly recommend this to anyone.

Girl Gang is so bad it's good. The acting is sub-par, yes. The direction isn't great. But the plot is actually pretty well thought out: Drug dealer uses a couple of his regulars to recruit young 'greenhorns' to his 'candy'. Once they get hooked on weed, he moves them on to heroin and all of them eventually find that the heroin habit is more expensive, therefore they 'owe' the dealer more and more money. He then basically forces the girls into prostitution and 'rape' allegation shakedowns to get the money to pay him back. Time goes on and they get deeper in debt to him and get into worse and worse criminal activity to support their habit. This is certainly not a family night movie, what with all the sex and prostitution and blackmail. There is even a point where it shows step by step how to freebase heroin...you learn something new every day! If you have no sense of humour, or the slightest understanding of the time period in which this film was made, I don't suggest you waste your time. On the other hand, if you love 'Teenagers Going to Hell' delinquency films of the fifties and sixties as much as I do, you'll love this monstrosity! It's a campy cheese-fest worthy of Mystery Science Theater 3000 that actually holds up decently on it's own!

My mother played the part of one of the girls, Wanda! So here we are me, my husband, my step-son, and my mother (Mary Lou O'Connor) watching Girl Gangs on Christmas day!!

I can remember my mom telling me that she did a movie before I was born, and now I am finally seeing it. I cannot believe what this movie contains for the time period. It is astonishing the things that they show the people doing, or is it just the fact that my mom is in it that I find it so unbelievable! I have only watched it because she is in it, other than that I wouldn't give it the time of day.

Girl Gangs is a really horrible movie.

First off, the title is wrong. There are girls and there is a gang but they're only incidental to the story. Most of the movie deals with a bunch of very overage "teenagers" getting hooked on heroin. Purportedly this movie is supposed to be a warning against it, yet it shows them all having a great time while on it! They're singing, dancing (a sequence that goes on for 10 minutes. Why? To eat up running time!) and having sex...so what it they're hooked? There's even a sequence which shows--step by step--how to inject heroin!

Very cheaply done, all horrible acting with uproarious dialogue. Also the worst use of music ever! Most of the time it doesn't even fit the scene! It's really hard to explain how totally worthless this movie is. Not even bad/good. Skip it.

Sure, they look innocent enough, but, no, they're the GIRL GANG! Marauding, marijuana-puffing minxes on a mission of mischief and mayhem! Working for the devilish Joe (Timothy Farell), these hellcats are out to cause big trouble!

Joe keeps these girls in line by getting them hooked on "the needle". We watch in horror, as he goes through the step-by-step process of injecting the dreaded drug! Yep, it's the big H for these hellraising females!

Soon, Joe and his cohorts are teaching the local kids to smoke "wacky weed", so they can be more easily led.to "the hard stuff". Who knew that pot smoking and harp music were so intimately connected? In no time, everyone's "hopped up" to beat the band!

Joe reaps the benefits of his eeevil empire, turning the youth of America into felonious fiends of frenzy! Prostitution gallops in on its pale horse, accompanied by the boogie-woogie and acid jazz that has corrupted so many innocent souls! Can death be far off?

Heed this warning, or pay the price!...