The Violent Years- 1956

Paula Parkins, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do newspaper editor father and a socialite mother, gets her kicks by organizing and directing a gang of bored young women like herself. The gang dresses in men’s attire, robs gas stations, and terrorizes habitués of a local lovers’ lane—even raping a young gentleman (off camera) after tying up his girlfriend. As a newspaperman, Paula’s father has some inside information on police plans to capture the gang, so the girls are able to avoid capture with Mr. Parkins’ unwitting complicity. After a make-out party with a few local gangsters, Paula and her pals agree to wreck a few classrooms — and destroy the American flag — in a public school at the behest of a female crime boss. (It is implied that this is part of an anti-American Communist plot.) The girls perform the job with gleeful competence until the police arrive and a deadly shootout takes place, claiming the lives of two of Paula’s gang while Paula shoots and kills a policeman. Paula is captured, convicted, and dies in the hospital giving birth to the child she conceived during the rape. The judge in Paula’s case denies her parents custody of their granddaughter, based on the neglectful way they raised Paula. The cynical tag line “So what?” is used repeatedly by the girls to underscore their uncaring, Nihilism attitude.

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