So Evil, So Young is a 1961 British Technicolor reform school prison film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring Jill Ireland and Ellen Pollock.

She heads to a local club where she sees her ex-boyfriend Tom eyeing his new girlfriend Anne (Jill Ireland).

Meanwhile, Lucy starts to pit all the girls against Anne, except for one, Marie, who has served four years in Wilsham and is getting out in one week.

Anne than climbs out the window after stealing the mistress' coat, tells Tom to talk to Dear Old Margen, and then turns herself in to the police.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Loosely and in every way predictably carpentered Mädchen in Uniform melodrama, stiffly staged and tarted up with Technicolor.

Joan Haythorne contributes a controlled performance as the matron, but Ellen Pollock is inclined to chew the scenery as the monstrous Miss Smith.

"[3] Richard Harland Smith wrote for TCM.com, "shameless recyclers of their own material, the Danzigers reshuffled elements of So Young So Bad (1950) (Paul Henreid as a progressive psychiatrist who attempts to rehabilitate youth offenders) with the "wrongly accused protagonist" plots of Sentenced for Life (1960) and Man Accused (1959) to create So Evil, So Young... derivative in concept, So Evil, So Young strived for novelty by being one of the Danziger's only films shot in Technicolor".

Jill Ireland, now married to screen tough guy Charles Bronson, is both fetching and effective in the central role".

[5] TV Guide wrote, "the cruelties of reform school are realistically exposed," adding, "this film has never been shown theatrically in the US, but it should be.