Hooked
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
(Redirected from Hooked/DVD)
Hooked (1957, USA) is a Crime film directed by Alexander J. Wells.
- Contents: Watch Trailer | Double-Feature DVD | Press Kit | Double-Feature DVD 2
Main Details
- Released in 1957
- B & W
- Running Time: USA:83 min (original release) | USA:70 min (video version)
- Distribution Co: Screen Guild Productions (1957) (USA) (theatrical)
- Written and Directed by Alexander J. Wells
- Starring Regis Toomey, Paul Kelly, Cathy Downs, Jack Edwards, Byron Foulger
- Produced by Charles E. King
- Original Music by Paul Dunlap
Plot Summary
- Police Lieutenant Lacey, with aid from Coach Bettger, heads a crackdown on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. One kid dies from an overdose, two more kill a gas-station attendant in an aborted holdup attempt to get money to buy dope, and a third dies in a fall in a condemned empty building.
Also Known As
- Curfew Breakers
- Narcotics Squad (USA) (copyright title)
Taglines
- True Story of Narcotics Evil As It Confronts The Youth Of Today! (original poster)
- Sensational Expose Of Teen Age Vice! (original poster)
- Too Smart To Be Careful, Too Young To Be Scared! (original poster)
- Menacing the Lives of America's Teen-Agers!
- Endorsed by Leading Civic and Religious Groups Everywhere
- Are We Entitled to Know the TRUTH?
- U.S. DECLARES WAR ON NARCOTICS
- WILL YOU JOIN THIS CRUSADE AGAINST DOPE?
- Pent Up Punks on a Penthouse Binge!
