The wretched acting gets a longtime companion with Edward D. Wood Jr.'s writing the moment that mom goes to write a check, simply tapping the check with her pen and hands it to her daughter. The young girl has made an effort to converse with her very busy mother who is too busy with charities to spend time with her. How about dad? He is working too many hours at his newspaper. So what is a girl to do when moms and pops are too unavailable? Rob gas stations, that's what. Yes, there is a history of rich kids turning to crime. I know... I had it happen to me twice, and I could tell that these delinquents were at least upper middle class. What causes kids with money to do such things? Drugs perhaps, maybe just the thrill of seeing if they can get away with it.Now if this D grade drama made any effort to explain why, perhaps it would rank a 4 instead of a 2. These buxom females are obviously older than the supposed 18 years. With angora sweaters covering their bullets over Broadway, they are one dimensional and unbelievable. At times, there is some little bit of intelligence, but I believe that was strictly by accident. A prologue concerning the parents in court is a finger-wagging moment that is up there with the rock musical where a long-haired old fuddy duddy smashes a record and shouts "Rock and roll has got to go!"I had seen the opening footage of the four nasty females approaching a blackboard and sneering at its attempts to show them values. None are present here. The same year's "The Bad Seed" gave logical reasoning to why sweet little Rhoda was a sociopath, but this shows none. They are animals, pure and simple, and not the kind that one would use the word to describe them... outside of a kennel.I waited ten minutes before deciding what fate I wanted for each of them. These girls would be approximately my mother's age now, and I have seen her high school yearbooks. Not one is her supposedly tough school looked like these bullies with breasts. Even John Waters created a more realistic tale with his expose "Female Trouble" where Divine at least had the motive of not getting cha cha heels for her life of crime.Today's teens can be just as bad with their selfish motives hidden by passive aggressive behavior. So if Wood was looking into the future, he got everything right but technology. "What did you expect them to throw back, powder puffs?", one of them asks when the police open fire on them. They mourn the sudden death of one of the quartet for a minute. An older woman whom they hide out with is their fairy godmother from hell. Watch for the obvious wretchedness in the amateurish acting and the ridiculously badly clichéd script. It's the only way to make it through this without gagging on your finger.

Unless you're prepared to undergo the horrifying experience of a cingulotomy you're best advised to avoid this Ed Wood written movie. It's just terrible.The central figure of the rich girl, Jean Moorhead, who is drawn to armed robbery by the thrill of it all is attractive enough and the half dozen high school girls, whose ages run between twenty and thirty, wear tight sweaters and brassieres that seem to be made of traffic cones. But there the delectations end.Scenes don't move. The acting is out of some community college stage in Cranford, New Jersey. The staging is positively primitive. The dialog is ripped off from "Dragnet." "There's one thing you forgot, Mister.""Huh? What's that?" "This movie transcends the unkempt. It reaches for a black hole." Fortunately, everyone bad is brought before the bar of justice and told off in no uncertain terms. And -- whew! -- it's over at last.

I saw this on Mystery Science Theatre 3000, I guess that's what made it possible to watch. The acting is terrible, the camera angles are dreadfully boring, the editing is weak and the music is rather lame. And the judge's everlasting monologues! I just wanted it to end, but it lasted on and on and on... I rank that one of the most boring moments in movie history, ever. The whole deal with the girls running round robbing, raping and eventually killing, its kind of like in A Clockwork Orange, except of course, its nothing like Kubricks masterpiece, but who'd expect that from Ed Wood?This is the second Ed Wood movie I've seen, Plan 9 of course being the first. Plot-wise The Violent Years is much better, but Plan 9 from Outer-Space is one of those movies that's so-bad-they're-epic-but-still- pretty-bad. The Violent Years is just boring, considering the plot, it should have been far more fast-paced and it has a potential that it just doesn't live up to. That and the fact that Ed Wood really deserved his reputation as the worlds worst director.

Written by Ed Wood of Plan 9 fame, this film centers on a group of girls who run around doing all sorts of criminal shenanigans. The problem is the film is just...boring. Honestly, I got more entertainment out of watching fish then this film.I supposed it was some 50's psycho-drama, but the film opens in one of the worst ways possible. Basically, a very small court room where parents are being a judge who looks oddly like Commissioner Gordon from the Batman comic franchise. From there, it recaps the whole story as one giant flashback, including one of the girls getting impregnated via raping a man (this does happen, but on the whole treated in a very "meh" fashion). Two of the gang die and no one cares, some other stuff happens, and end story.Truth is, the basic technical aspects are good, but they are drowned out by the bad acting, bad script, and bland feeling that makes it seem everyone had other things they'd rather be doing.Going forward, there are worse films from multiple stand points, but otherwise, this does just fall flat. Nothing overly glaring, no outstanding rampaging plot holes, no real issues with production. Just all in all, boring.3/10 stars. There are worse, but avoid this film unless you are drunk and like "bad girls"