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TOO OLD to be teen-agers... TOO YOUNG to be adults!
A melodrama about young adults growing up and facing the pressures of life.
No Time to Be Young
1957 Directed by David Lowell Rich
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Teenage Delinquents, Rapina a San Francisco, Vidas Truncadas
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01 Aug 1957
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Kicked off Noirvember with a competent Tom Pittman heist flick, and signed off with a more-than-competent Tom Pittman heist flick. That’s symmetry, baby.
Honestly, the highlight in this one was the ethically icky romance between college dropout-turned-draftee* Robert Vaughn and his former professor Dorothy Green. Their first scene together contains plenty of chemistry and lived-in rituals. And a bunch Freudian text: she’s a war widow who can’t help trying to mentor Vaughn (and provide the TLC that his working single mom doesn’t have time for; told you it was Freudian), and he’s full of insecurity about how he compares to her dead husband, and if their relationship could survive being long distance. It’s compelling stuff; I could’ve watched a whole…
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This movie's got it all: Robert Vaughn playing a Bad Boy, Robert Vaughn getting to yell and cry, Robert Vaughn eating ice cream and using 50s slang, Robert Vaughn,
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I feel like we had some loose ends here when this abruptly ended. Pretty angsty.
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How have I gone through my entire life so far never having seen Robert Vaughn’s first film?! 🤯
It’s your typical angry young man of the 1950s fare, but you can see just how amazing an actor he would always be. The greatness was there from the start!
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Trois copains frustrés par la vie, en colère, se retrouvent de fil en aiguille dans une sacrée mouise.
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This is another completely obscure, minor, forgotten movie on TCM I took a random flyer on, and which proved very rewarding. It’s a very minor “juvenile delinquent” type of B-movie with no pedigree aside from a young Robert Vaughn in the lead. It was probably just intended to offer some cheap thrills with the sensationalism of rebellious teenagers and crime. But they got a hell of a movie out of it, mostly because the film, written by men in their forties and directed by one in his thirties, seems to actually get its characters, to understand and articulate the angst of young men around twenty staring adulthood in the face.
Vaughn plays a cynical, hostile manipulator who affects to see…
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A movie that starts out as a melodrama about three intense and disaffected male college students, each with his own "girl trouble", and then gradually morphs into a sort of crime drama. What was the original intention? If a melodrama, then the movie leaves us high and dry with most of the characters, offering no resolutions to their various stories. If a crime drama, then it spent a little too long on the buildup and not enough on the crime.
Still, though, it's not a bad watch. Robert Vaughn, in his first leading role, is charismatic and sometimes electrifying as the volatile Buddy, who is maybe a darker cousin to James Dean's character in Rebel Without a Cause. The movie…
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Robert Vaughn plays a student that no one would be friends with, who is sleeping with someone twice his age, and who robs a grocery store with little to no skill.
He also gets chased by the cops, dances and craps out the money he just stole.
Your enjoyment will depend largely on your ability to watch Vaughn ham it up in his first role.
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Introduces Vaughn's mid-century style to the world. He's in bad boy mode, although the melodrama is too soggy when he's off-screen.
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This movie explores the situations of 3 young men who turn to crime in an effort to solve their problems. The issue is that so much is happening with all the moving pieces, that the movie feels long, despite being under 90 minutes.
While I was watching this, I couldn't help but think of Robert Vaughn's performance in Zombi 5: Killing Birds. In "No Time to Be Young", Vaughn is a young actor throwing himself completely into the role, with a bright future ahead. But in Zombi 5, he seems beaten down by life, wondering how he ended up in some Italian schlockfest and just trying to get through it. Pairing these movies would be a good double feature for the maladjusted.
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This low-budget juvenile delinquency drama from Columbia deserves some credit for taking so much time to establish the cause of its three main characters’ turn to crime. Robert Vaughan, who has a chip on his shoulder, has been expelled from college and wants to run off to Mexico to avoid being drafted. Roger Smith has gotten drunk with his girlfriend, who’s had an accident and needs money for her hospital stay. Tom Pittman has talked the daughter of a rich man into marriage by pretending to have had a novel published. They’re all disillusioned and need money.
Unfortunately, the dialogue in John McPartland and Raphael Hayes’ screenplay is frequently overripe, and there are too many subplots. Do the arguments between…