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JACKTOWN (1962)

"Was he born to be bad?" 21-year-old pretty-boy Frankie Stossel (RICHARD MEADE) is an over-the-hill delinquent who has his mother worried: "Right now, he's in the backyard listening to that awful rock'n'roll. If I mention one word about work, he just jumps all over me." What Mama doesn't know is that Frankie's "work" is committing robberies in Oak Park, Michigan, with his tough-guy pal Vince Vitali. All of which comes to a sudden and sobering end when a cop catches Frankie making out in the back seat of a convertible with a 15-year-old car hop: "Alright, young lady, I think you better put your slacks on!" And though Frankie and Vince scare the girl's mother into dropping charges, Frankie is nevertheless sentenced to five years at the World's then-largest Penal Institution, the Michigan State Prison, "unofficial name to its more than 6,000 inmates: Jacktown." (It's also the scene of "one of the most infamous riots in prison history" that erupted for four days in 1952, glimpsed here in authentic newsreel footage.) But because "moral charges are against their religion," the cons start making things rough for Frankie: "They don't like you!" And when Vinnie holds up a supermarket and the cops shoot him dead "58 seconds" later, one of the cons even pretends he's Vinnie's ghost(!) and calls to Frankie at night: "Frankie, it's me Vinnie..." Frankie cracks, so The Warden assigns him to "garden duty" at his home where Frankie meets Margaret, The Warden's Daughter, played by The Bad Seed herself, "Miss PATTY McCORMACK, The Youngest Actress Ever to be Nominated for the Academy Award!" She's obviously smitten by him -- so much so that Daddy quickly changes his mind and assigns Frankie to be an outside driver for the guards. But when "a hardened criminal in need of medical treatment" tries to kill a guard on the streets of downtown Jackson, Frankie scurries away and steals a car...with a 4-year-old boy in the back! Now wanted for kidnapping, Frankie decides to hide from the police...by shacking up with Margaret! A short but brisk little "B," Jacktown plays like a half dozen Phil Karlson crime movies and j.d. paperback novels all mixed together, and is shot on some of Michigan's sleaziest streets. Yet despite the film opening with Frankie cracking some poor slob over the head, and the cast crawling with real-life cops, judges, and Feds, once Frankie gets into the hoosegow, the film suddenly tries to make the little bastard into a sympathetic Victim of the System! Objection, your Honor...