Sunday, 25 October 2020

Bad Girl - Vina Delmar

ALL ABOUT THE KID FROM THE SLUMS WHO COULDN'T STAY GOOD



AVON BOOKS AT51
NEW YORK, USA
2ND PRINTING WITH NEW ARTWORK 1950'S
REPRINTS AVON 81 1946
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HARCOURT BRACE & CO 1926

Thrill-Crazed Kids

"His mouth was warm against hers. Her breasts crushed against him and swelled above the square-cut neck in the satin dress.

She knew she ought to sit up and pull the new blue dress with all its yards of braid down over her knees.

She knew she ought to...."

Friday, 23 October 2020

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.

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

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.

Monday, 19 October 2020

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.

Saturday, 17 October 2020

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

Thursday, 15 October 2020

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
 

Monday, 12 October 2020

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