Teenage Doll is a 1957 film noir directed by Roger Corman, starring June Kenney and John Brinkley.

As the gangs prepare for a rumble, we glimpse the members' home lives, exaggerating every type of family dysfunction.

The leader of the Black Widows is Hel (Helen) who decides to offer Rand money to turn Barbara over to them.

[2] Charles Griffith was hired to write the script, based on an idea by Bernard Woolner.

She sticks a potato peeler in one end for a handle and then a double-edge razor-blade all around the potato so she could just flip the handle and the grenade would hit somebody...Another girl stole her father’s pistol from his holster and, while she’s stealing it from his bed, the phone rings and the father has a conversation on the phone without opening his eyes and hangs up again.

But the Hays office made me change these things so that they were stealing these weapons to sell for money to get a lawyer to attack the girls in some legal way.

[7] Variety said the film's "Unremitting and unconvincing downbeat tenor, clumsily executed, deadens b.o.

Characters in Charles B. Griffith screenplay talk a stylized jargon mainly derivative of other pix of this genre; engage In continual brutality and violence; and their motivations, delinquent or otherwise, bears only the, slightest resemblance of those' human beings.

"[8] Writing in DVD Savant, film critic Glenn Erickson described the movie as a "rushed, cheap picture" that "sags under the weight of painfully neutered euphemisms like, "I don't give a flying flip," and "I was weaned on a .38!