Blue Denim

1959

Action / Drama / Romance

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 61% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 61% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 696 696

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Plot summary

Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.

Director

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Philip Dunne

Top cast

Warren Berlinger Photo
Warren Berlinger as Ernie
Vaughn Taylor Photo
Vaughn Taylor as Professor Willard
Malcolm Atterbury Photo
Malcolm Atterbury as Marriage License Clerk
Sandra Gould Photo
Sandra Gould as Girl with Orchid
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781.8 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
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1.45 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by AlsExGal 6 / 10

It's a rather turgid affair...

...about teen angst and pregnancy in a nice, middle-class home. The play says it's set in Detroit, but with the movie version and the various accents, it's impossible to tell. Carol Lynley plays the naive high school girl and Brandon de Wilde the even dumber boy. They fool around one night and presto chango she's pregnant.Her father (Vaughn Taylor) is a college professor and out of touch. His father (Macdonald Carey) is an ex-military jerk. His mother (Marsha Hunt) is a total airhead with Nancy Kelly's singsong voice from The Bad Seed. When the kiddies try to get married, the town clerk turns them away for being too young. They're afraid to tell their parents anything, so all rational thinking drives them to set up an illegal abortion. The only way they can think of to pay for this is to forge one of daddy's checks.With the abortion set up, a big car comes to carry Lynley away. She's blindfolded (!) so she can never lead to cops to the back room she's going to. When the forged check is discovered, de Wilde breaks down and tells all. They get the location from the soda jerk who told de Wilde about the doctor. Can they get there in time?Best thing in the film is Warren Berlinger as de Wilde's wise mouth best friend. There's also a sappy subplot about de Wilde's dopey sister and her dentist fiancé. Berlinger also gets to sing with Roberta Shore at the hop! Mary Young shows up as a drunken aunt, and Jesslyn Fax has a funny scene around the punch bowl. The Broadway play was, oddly, billed as a comedy. Yup. You gotta love those 50s abortion comedies!
Reviewed by gavin6942 7 / 10

One of Those Cautionary Tales

Arthur Bartley and Janet Willard are fairly typical 1950s teenagers. Their lives are turned upside down however when Janet becomes pregnant. Desperate to tell his parents of the predicament they find themselves in, Arthur finds that he cannot do so.These sort of films are fun. Today (2017) it would be very realistic, not at all a fun movie. In the 1930s, it would be all fun and not at all realistic, using crazy scare tactics. But the 1950s had a bit of a middle ground. You could not be so blatant about things, and yet you still wanted to be serious... so you get this half-baked middle ground.On some level, though, you have to admire them for even making the film (despite changing certain elements to make it pass the censors). We are often lead to believe that the 1950s was a decade of family values, and surely people were not getting their high school girlfriends pregnant -- and there is no way abortion existed. But, of course, these things did exist. (Often if you do a little basic math, you will notice how common it was for babies to be born less than nine months after a wedding in those days.)
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