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The Kids Are Not Alright - Naughty Little Girls, Juvenile Delinquents, and Murderous Moppets
Oddball Films presents The Kids are Not Alright, a night of 16mm rarities and oddities about troubled, twisted and tormented youth from the 1930s through the 1980s, featuring naughty little girls, juvenile delinquents, creepy ventriloquists, murderous moppets, and even Shirley Temple as a toddler prostitute. Find out all about mid-century juvenile delinquency in Teenagers on Trial (1955). A sneaky little girl steals her ballet costume and her "horrible little beast" of a brother destroys it in Amelia and the Angel (1957), an early short from one of Britain's most audacious directors, Ken Russell (Tommy, Altered States). Little Shirley Dinsdale and her pal Judy Splinters chat it up in the creepy ventriloquist "Popular Person Oddity" Double-Talk Girl (1942). Claymation kids warn us about peer pressure and gang mentality in Jojo's Blues (1982). A tiny Shirley Temple tarts it up and tries to cheat an honest man in the "Baby Burlesk" Polly Tix in Washington (1933). Comic-turned-cartoon star Little Lulu hits her head and goes on one surreal trip to the Stork Club in The Babysitter (1947). One little darling turns into a murderous monster in a chilling excerpt of cult horror classic The Bad Seed (1956). Plus, mental hygiene howler Don't Get Angry (1953), an early work by Gus Van Sant, Little Johnny and his Dog (1972, on generous loan from the archives of Smokehouse Films) and more surprises! Date: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 at 8:00pm Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to RSVP@oddballfilm.com or (415) 558-8117 Web: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com