The Plough Boy - Tony Parker

AT THIS SPOT, IN 1953, A MURDER WAS COMMITTED. THIS IS THE TRUE STORY OF THAT MURDER AND THE TRIAL

ARROW BOOKS 104

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1969

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HUTCHINSON & Co 1965

At Clapham Common, on the evening of July 2nd, 1953, a murder was committed. Charged with stabbing to death a young boy in a gang-fight, Michael Davies stood trial at the Old Bailey and was sentenced to death. His appeals to the Court of Criminal Appeal and the House of Lords were dismissed. He spent in all 92 days in the condemned cell until he was reprieved by the Home Secretary who commuted his sentence to one of life imprisonment. Of this, he served seven years; now back in society, he is married and has settled down, leading a life of quiet respectability. But Davies maintains, and has always maintained, that he was innocent.

Tony Parker examines his claim, and how it came about that Michael Davies was found guilty.

The Beat Boys - John Clellon Holmes

AMERICA'S TEEN-AGE JUNGLE AND A SEARING 
STORY OF YOUTH IN SEARCH OF 'KICKS'

ACE BOOKS (UK) H262

LONDON, UK

2ND PRINTING NOVEMBER 1959

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE USA UNDER THE TITLE "GO"

Clellon Holmes is famous as the inventor of the Beat Generation, and The Beat Boys (originally entitled Go) is the book in which he introduced the phrase. It is a novel of youth in search of 'kicks'. Against a background of fast-drinking, drug addiction, wild jazz and all-night parties, the young people of today who make up the Beat Generation carry on their desperate search for a meaning to their lives - a search for identity, experience and love. The Beats may be found pursuing their restless quest in every big American city. Here is the world of the Beat Generation - a world of dingy backstairs, be-bop joints, night-long wanderings, meetings on street corners, hitch-hiking, and 'hip' bars.

Rumble At The Housing Project - Edward DeRoo

Old Terror In New Buildings

ACE BOOKS (US) D417

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PRINTING 1960

When they tore down that block of slums and built a clean new housing development, everybody said it would be the end of juvenile delinquency. But a kid like Larry Talos, who had to live there, could have told them different.

Larry was determined to keep out of the old gang, but the Spiders had other plans for him. To them the big apartments were just new 'turf' and Larry a natural recruit for a RUMBLE AT THE HOUSING PROJECT.

A new shocker of modern youth by the author of THE YOUNG WOLVES and THE FIRES OF YOUTH.

Die Hemmungslosen

DIE HEMMUNGSLOSEN

aka RAGGARE!

aka BLACKJACKETS

NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM Nr. 1871

AUSTRIA 1960 

"Juvenile delinquents in Sweden."

Starring Christina Schollin, Bill Magnusson and Hans Wahlgren

Directed by Olle Hellbom

Artfilm / Europa Film

Sweden

1959

Possessed By Speed aka Fartfeber

FARTFEBER

aka POSSESSED BY SPEED

DANISH CINEMA PROGRAMME

1954

"Gunnar and Ulf are teenagers living in Stockholm. Gunnar has no father and spends his spare time reading poems and racing cars."

Starring Arne Ragneborn, Sven-Axel Carlsson and Håkan Serner 

Directed by Egil Holmsen

Svensk Talfilm

Sweden 1953

 

Groupie Girl

GROUPIE GIRL

NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM Nr. 5747

AUSTRIA 1970

"I AM A GROUPIE!... a Rock-Group freak all the way - but what I collect ain't autographs! All I own is in this suitcase and all I want is a pad for tonight."

Starring Esme Johns,  Billy Boyle and Richard Shaw

Directed by Derek Ford

Salon Productions

UK 1970

 

Rumble

RUMBLE

1990's

UK

7 ISSUES

The seven issues of this British fanzine are essential reading for anyone into JD paperbacks or vintage paperbacks in general. A nice companion set to go alongside the Bad Seed fanzine.