Condemned To Mediocrity By A Confused Script

UCLA, Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA

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This car was a bargain, I was almost embarrassed to take it!

You've got old-timey large displacement long stroke L-heads.

It's got positive action and sensitive steering!

And that rinky-dink triangular drive chain system connecting the camshaft and the generator shaft; that went out with the chariots and Cleopatra!

Sharon Hugueny in The Young Lovers (1964)

Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny in The Young Lovers (1964)

Peter Fonda

Sharon Hugueny

Nick Adams

George Garrett

Julian Zimet

Eddie wants to live a life without responsibilities. He meets Pam and they fall in love. When Pam gets pregnant, Eddie must face up to the problem.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

The Young Lovers

Curious, downbeat youth melodrama

Thin script from Julian Haley&apos;s novel about a college senior who struggles to stay with the curriculum after falling in love with an attractive co-ed. Peter Fonda, pre-&quot;Easy Rider&quot;, amusingly enters the film on a motorbike, but never manages to find an appropriate acting style and seems distinctly miscast; either he&apos;s smiling too much or talking too slowly, his heavy-lidded eyes fixated on the ground. It&apos;s a bad match between actor and material, however Nick Adams is very enjoyable as a goof-off who gets drafted. Sharon Hugueny is a rather bland beauty, and all the adult characters are stereotypically rigid and humorless, but the film&apos;s cinematography (by Joe Biroc and Ellsworth Fredericks) is beautifully expressive. Overall, a fairly rote youth flick, but one with a curiously downbeat, foreboding tone. ** from ****

Thin script from Julian Haley's novel about a college senior who struggles to stay with the curriculum after falling in love with an attractive co-ed. Peter Fonda, pre-"Easy Rider", amusingly enters the film on a motorbike, but never manages to find an appropriate acting style and seems distinctly miscast; either he's smiling too much or talking too slowly, his heavy-lidded eyes fixated on the ground. It's a bad match between actor and material, however Nick Adams is very enjoyable as a goof-off who gets drafted. Sharon Hugueny is a rather bland beauty, and all the adult characters are stereotypically rigid and humorless, but the film's cinematography (by Joe Biroc and Ellsworth Fredericks) is beautifully expressive. Overall, a fairly rote youth flick, but one with a curiously downbeat, foreboding tone. ** from ****

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