One Way Ticket to Hell
One Way Ticket to Hell (1955)

One Way Ticket to Hell

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Troubled teen Cassandra (pretty Barbara Meeks) has her life turned topsy turvy after she hooks up with a group of delinquent bikers and starts smoking weed, which eventually leads to poor Cassandra degenerating into a destitute strung-out smack addict. Boy, does this gloriously ghastly celluloid bilge possess all the right wrong stuff to qualify as a special kind of unintentionally sidesplitting stinker: Ham-fisted (mis)direction by Bamlet Lawrence Price Jr.

You know that a movie is in serious trouble when it shuns dialogue entirely and relies strictly on narration. Writer & director Bamlet Lawrence Price Jr.

To movie is so bad that most of the actors are only in this one film.

"Cassandra Leigh" (Barbara Marks) is a young high school senior who makes good grades but feels suffocated at home by her domineering mother. One day while at work she meets a small group of motorcyclists and decides to start hanging out with them.

This is a teenage exploitative flick about a decent girl going bad. Cassandra Leigh(Barbara Marks)is a good girl easily tempted by her peers and takes a short walk on the wilder side.

Based on entertainment alone, I have to give this a 10! It was so refreshingly...

This silly "juvenile delinquent" film is fun for a lot of reasons: there is NO dialogue, only flat narration; the female teenage lead looks like a hardened 40 year old; the narrator's analysis of psychological problems is a hoot; and the motorcycle gang looks like a troupe of Cub Scouts. Good stuff!

If you want a good laugh, then you will need to watch, or, at least, attempt to watch this movie. The narration, the dialog, the music score and the film editing are examples of the worst of the worst that Hollywood can or did offer.

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