Delinquent Daughters

Delinquent Daughters, or Accent on Crime, is a 1944 American drama film directed by Albert Herman and starring June Carlson, Fifi D'Orsay and Margia Dean.

[1] An exploitation film, it is about a police investigation into the suicide death of a high school girl and the hard-partying teenagers at a party prior to the incident.

Both family and community are shaken by the unexpected, tragic suicide of teenage girl Lucille Dillerton.

With his careless driving, Jerry hits a pedestrian by the road outside of Merry-Go-Round, a club and teenage hangout.

A while later June's boyfriend, Rocky Webster, comes to the club and sells his father's gun to Nick for five dollars.

In a desperate act to give consolation, and afraid that June is contemplating suicide, Rocky asks her to marry him.

Hanahan manages to get up from the river, and still wet he finds Rocky and June, and takes them into custody.

The robbery doesn't go as planned and results in a deadly shootout between Jerry and the men guarding the transport.

When the police arrive on the scene, they find Jerry lifeless, with Mr. Webster's gun in his hand.

Mimi rushes back to the club to warn Nick, regretting that she told the police about him.

Nick is killed in the crash, and the town decides to remake the club to a wholesome place for teenagers to hang.